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Katie Woodworth; Nicole Arshan – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2023
The University of California, Irvine Writing Project's (UCI Writing Project's) Pathway to Academic Success project (Pathway) aims to improve students' academic writing through professional development for secondary English language arts (ELA) and advanced English language development (ELD) teachers. Based on evidence of Pathway's previous success…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students, Academic Language
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National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2022
Helping English learners and economically disadvantaged students read as well as their more advantaged peers is a struggle for many schools. This study tested WordGen Elementary, a program to improve fourth- and fifth-grade students' ability to understand the academic language used in school and support their reading achievement. This Study…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Economically Disadvantaged
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Yeo, Joseph; O'Donoghue, Gemma – Student Success, 2023
To address the demands from their courses, students with insufficient language proficiency who cannot attend the standard subject-specific academic language development program are directed to an alternative discipline-specific program -- the Language Development Tutorial in Block mode, at the University of Technology Sydney. This practice report…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Academic Language, Universities, English for Academic Purposes
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Cunico, Sonia – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Language tandem exchanges offer students valuable opportunities for autonomous learning and authentic intercultural communication encounters. This paper will discuss the key principles of tandem language exchange, and in particular online ones, and then present the EU-funded European University Tandem (EUniTa) project which was developed by…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Lotan, Rachel A.; Burns, Dion; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
The Instructional Leadership Corps (ILC) is an innovative professional learning project in which teacher leaders in California collaborate to lead sustainable professional development to support implementation of new student standards within their districts. Over more than 4 years, the ILC has served over 100,000 teachers. The responses of these…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Leadership, Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Change