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Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion. Home - Radiolab. Home | This American Life. Radio Rookies: Radio Rookies - Resources for Educators. If you would like to receive a copy of Radio Rookies: Teaching True Stories Curriculum Guide, please let us know a bit more about yourself: and we will email you a PDF. Youth produced radio documentaries are valuable curriculum resources because youth voices are too often excluded from mainstream teaching materials.

The Radio Rookies approach places youth voice at the center of issues-oriented instructional programs. Radio documentaries foster academic engagement by capturing the interest of students and inspiring them to question and share their beliefs and perspectives about contemporary issues. Students are pushed to ask themselves: What do I think about this issue? Integrating Radio Rookies documentaries into educational programs allows youth to do more than simply hear the opinions and viewpoints of other teens.

The N-Word: It Represents Hatred Wednesday, December 13, 2006 ListenAddDownload Coming Out in The Age of Lady Gaga Guns. Teaching Topics. Edutopia | K-12 Education & Learning Innovations with Proven Strategies that Work. Advocates for Children of New York | Home. The Teaching of Language Arts to Limited English Proficient/ English Language Learners: Learning Standards for English as a Second Language:Bilingual Ed:NYSED. Our Rights. English Language Development (ELD) Standards. WIDA's 2012 Amplification of the ELD Standards The 2012 Amplification of the English Language Development Standards was developed with input from leaders in the field and educators in WIDA Consortium member states.

This process was also informed by the latest developments in both English language development research and states' content standards for college and career readiness. The 2012 Amplification of the ELD Standards, Kindergarten–Grade 12 is available for free download or for purchase as a spiral-bound booklet.

Order Now Here are some suggestions for how you might organize your review of the standards publication: Review our 2012 Amplification Overview Tutorial. The WIDA Standards Framework and its Theoretical Foundations WIDA draws on multiple theories and approaches in an effort to describe language use in academic contexts; this is the language that language learners must acquire and negotiate to participate successfully in school. Essential Actions Handbook Resource Guide.