A number of sites provide examples and information about best practices in teaching bilingual students. Below is an annotated list of important links.

National Association of School Psychologists

Resource for dealing with disasters and children.

Save the Children

Working to create real and lasting change in the lives of children in need.

National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE)

The National Association for Bilingual Education is the only professional organization at the national level wholly devoted to representing both English language learners and bilingual education professionals. Along with affiliate organizations in 23 states, they represent a combined membership of more than 20,000 bilingual and English-as-a-second-language teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals, university professors and students, researchers, advocates, policymakers, and parents.

TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages)

TESOL's mission is to ensure excellence in English language teaching to speakers of other languages.

Vocabulary University

Free online learning and vocabulary building activities.

Intervention Central

Intervention Central offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth.

ESL-related links (courtesy of BEST - Bilingual/ESL Support Training):

The Internet TESL Journal
Dave's ESL Cafe
National Center for ESL Literacy
Friends and Flags Project
The National Network for Early Language Learning
The WRITE Institute
Educational News Service
What's Happening Publications
ESL Miniconference
The Cooperative Learning Center
SIOP: Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (Center for Appplied Linguistics)
Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence (CREDE)

Bilingual Research Journal Online

Minority Student Achievement Network

The Minority Student Achievement Network is an unprecedented national coalition of 21 multiracial, urban-suburban school districts across the United States. The Network's mission is to discover, develop and implement the means to ensure high academic achievement for students of color, specifically African American and Latino students.

ODE Content and Performance Standards

To raise expectations for education, the Oregon legislature in 1991 passed the Oregon Educational Act for the 21st Century. The law, as strengthened and clarified by the legislature in 1995, calls for rigorous educational standards to evaluate student performance and progress.

Think Spanish! Magazine

Think Spanish or ¡Piensa en Español! is a monthly magazine with practical Spanish vocabulary, grammar, lessons and information. Topics of articles include: culture and travel in Spanish speaking countries, art and entertainment, current news and events, history, science. Articles are written in beginning Spanish and a bilingual glossary
accompanies each article. In addition, each issue contains a monthly tutorial, syntax review, crossword puzzle, functional idioms and phrases and linguistic comparisons.

Portraits of Success

Portraits of Success is a joint project of NABE (National Association for Bilingual Education), Boston College, and the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University. It is a national effort, supported by a number of experts in the field of bilingual education, to develop a database on successful bilingual education.

Strategies for Teaching Bilingual Learners - Teacher Resources

The resources for Bilingual/ESL Classrooms include a bilingual (Spanish-English) math and science curriculum and strategies for working with English language learners.

Effective Instructional Practices for Language Minority Students

Some common attributes of effective school and classroom practices were identified in the National Research Council report titled Educating Language Minority Children, edited by Kenji Hakuta and Diane August. This brief paper summarizes that report.

Approaches to Language Development

Exemplary schools created flexible program paths through adaptation of key elements from model LEP student programs. They adapted these models to fit their own conditions and the needs of their students. Most created more than one flexible program path, in order to customize instruction to each student's language development needs and level of previous schooling, as well as to satisfy preferences of parents.

Bilingual Education at the National, State, and Local Levels

Princeton's unique population has created Princeton-specific bilingual education and ESL programs inside the school district. At the head of the program is Dr. Simone, whose responsibilities include writing all of the state paper work, acting as a state liaison on any bilingual issue, supervising the bilingual educators, and writing the bilingual educators' evaluations and observations. The bilingual coordinators at each school have a free reign to work within the specified guidelines set out by the school district and state legislation.

Teaching Immigrant and Migrant Students

Immigrant students in the United States come from virtually every country in the world and all levels of socio-economic status and background. While some of them do require some English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction, most are normally matriculating students and take regular academic courses. The needs of migrant students are often exacerbated as their families move around the states according to the crop harvest. Many lose quite a bit of schooling over the course of a year, and benefit from the careful guidance teachers can provide.

The Life and Times of Emma Goldman: An Immigration Curriculum for Middle and High School Students

This curriculum site focuses on four main issues: Immigration Policies (what, when, and why people are admitted to or barred from the United States); Adaptation ( how the immigrant adjusts to a new society and how the immigrant is accepted or rejected as a newcomer); Diversity (how much diversity a country can tolerate in maintaining a common culture); and Industrial Labor (the immigrant in the labor market, the issues of cheap labor, and the particular issues of a multicultural immigrant workforce).

ERIC: Education Resources Information Center

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free. ERIC is moving forward with its modernization program, and has begun acquiring materials for addition to the database.