Connecticut State Department of Education
- CSDE ESL-Bilingual Web page (SBOE 2010 Position Statement, Bilingual Ed Statute, ELL Framework, AMAO Sample Letters, etc.)
- Resource: Administrative Resource Handbook for Coordinators of Programs of English Language Learners in CTs Public Schools
- CSDE Assessment Requirements for ELLs (AMAO calculation, Test Exemptions, and Exit Standards)
- CSDE Test Accommodations Web page (ELL Test Accommodations)
- Resource: List of Approved Bilingual Dictionaries for MCAS (Massachusetts) * PLEASE NOTE: Connecticut permits use of ONLY word-to-word bilingual dictionaries as a CMT/CAPT test accommodation.
- Additional links that provide guidance for schools/districts regarding ELLs in CT schools
- Connecticut Education, Data, and Research (CEDaR) Web site
- CT Accountability for Learning Initiative (CALI)
CT Regional Education Service Centers (RESCs)
- The CT RESC Alliance
- CT RESC Alliance ELL Resources
- Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES)
- ARCTELL
- Cooperative Educational Services (CES)
- Capitol Region Education Council (CREC)
- EASTCONN
- ELL Professional Development Activities
- Education Connection
- LEARN
State Education Resource Center (SERC)
- Initiative on Diversity in Education – ELL Resources
- ELL In-district, Job-embedded Professional Development and Technical Assistance Topics & Info
Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU)
- TESOL and Bilingual Education M.S. Degree and Cross Endorsements
- Professional Development: Training for All Teachers (TAT): “Educating our ELLs”
- Southern Connecticut State University online TAT Program library Southern’s Training for All Teachers (TAT) program maintains an online curriculum library of more than 250 teacher-modified curriculum units across all subjects for English learners in grades K-12. The library is searchable by grade and by subject (science, math, history/social studies, language arts, etc.)
UCLA-School Management Project (SMP), Northeast Region
Publishers/Testing
Organizations and Agencies – Resources
- Office for Civil Rights (OCR), U.S. Department of Education
- Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), U.S. Department of Education
- National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA) [OELA]
- Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
- Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners (CREATE) [CAL]
- Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE) [University of California, Berkeley]
- The National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt)
- Equity Alliance at Arizona State University (ASU) – Language-Differences Media Lab
- Center on Instruction: ELL: K-12: Resources
- NYU Steinhardt – ALBETAC – Translated Content Area Glossaries
- New York State Education Department (NYSED) – Translated Content Area Glossaries
Professional Organizations
- National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE)
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
- Connecticut Teachers of English of Speakers of Other Languages (ConnTESOL)
- Connecticut Council of Language Teachers (CT COLT)
- National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)
- New England Conference on Multicultural Education (NECME)