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Three in four U.S. classrooms have at least one student who is an English learner. Even in schools with EL specialists, ELs spend the majority of their instructional day with core teachers. EL excellence with rigorous content learning requires every teacher to be an effective teacher for ELs.

In my international work as a literacy specialist, EL specialist, and professional learning leader, I see a need for what I have created in this book. It is a breakthrough guide, unlike any EL strategy book to date. Here are four reasons why:

 PRACTICAL: Unlike other EL books that focus on theory, this book emphasizes daily action. The flip-to organization helps you apply research-based approaches to everyday teaching.

 RIGOROUS: Unlike EL resources that water down academic expectations, this book helps you raise expectations while personalizing teaching to ensure ELs (and all students) thrive.

 INTEGRATED: Unlike EL resources that emphasize EL strategies in isolation, this book helps you integrate EL strategies into core literacy routines to meet college and career readiness standards.

 STRATEGIC: Unlike EL resources that prescribe strategies as the solution, this book helps you use (and lose) strategies in a reflective process of inquiry about impact.

Based on your role, you will appreciate this book for different reasons.

 CORE TEACHERS: You want to find the strategies you need, when you need them. I wrote this flip-to guide to make your job easier. It doesn’t add to your plate but helps you amplify the impact of what you teach every day.

 EL TEACHERS: This book helps you build academic language directly aligned to the types of listening, speaking, reading, and writing tasks that are often most challenging for ELs in core classrooms. If you co-teach and collaborate with core teachers, this book helps you get specific together about goals, where ELs are in relationship to those goals, and what specific strategies to use to ensure their success.

 TEACHER LEADERS and COACHES: You want to empower your colleagues with strategies and pedagogy to raise student achievement. Use Sections I–III to build teaching capacity in strategies to value, engage, and support ELs with rigorous learning. Use Section IV as a flip-to reference to address your highest-priority literacy goals.

 ADMINISTRATORS: You want to prevent long-term ELs. You want to increase student engagement, raise literacy achievement, and ensure all learners thrive with collaboration, critical thinking, and other 21st century competencies. Engage teachers in using Chapters 2–7 to build essential mindsets and strategies to engage and support ELs. Use Section IV as a go-to resource to address high-priority goals for EL achievement through rigorous expectations, active engagement, data-driven differentiation, and reflection to refine teaching for impact.

 TEACHER EDUCATORS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: You want to ensure every new educator is fully prepared to thrive teaching English learners and Standard English learners. Use this book to help preservice teachers translate theories of language acquisition into classroom-based mindsets and actions. Facilitate collaborative opportunities for teacher candidates to use this resource to co-plan, co-teach, co-observe, and co-reflect on impact to build both their acumen with strategies and their self-direction as lifelong learners to always use formative data to refine teaching.