Explore how EL-centered, strategic, and collaborative leadership can transform your school or district to a teacher led improvement engine that creates equitable conditions for all students to thrive.

PROVIDING EL-CENTERED SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR HIGH EL-ENROLLMENT SCHOOLS

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LSI specializes in helping schools and districts envision how the roles of EL teachers and general educators coalesce to create equitable schoolwide conditions for all students to learn grade-level content and academic English simultaneously.

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Station Rotation Model:

A Case Study in EL-Centered School Improvement

In this model, students in small flexible groups speak, write, interact, read, and listen as they rotate learning stations designed to build proficiency in grade-level content and academic English.

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Teacher and School-Led Improvement

While establishing your schoolwide ELD model, begin building an EL-centered school improvement plan fueled by lessons in performance excellence in the Baldrige Excellence Framework.

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Vision for Schoolwide ELD

ESOL and grade-level teachers form professional learning communities to create equitable conditions for all students to learn academic English and grade-level content simultaneously.

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Resources

Our leadership recipe for improvement is fueled by research-based resources in professional learning communities, strategic planning, English language development, collaborating, and co-teaching with the learner in mind.

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“We assert that it will take a collaborative effort and widely dispersed leadership to meet the challenges confronting our schools, and we stress that virtually everyone who has elected to enter the field of education has the potential to lead.”
- DuFour and Marzano

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