Larry Ferlazzo - Navigating the Common Core with English Language Learners: Practical Strategies to Develop Higher-Order Thinking Skills

Ferlazzo and Hull Sypnieski's book artfully combines a strong theoretical framework with highly practical and accessible ideas for lessons, units of study, and classroom organization and structure. Their teaching strategies and lesson ideas build on an assets-approach to teaching English learners that is refreshing, empowering, and imperative for student success. The authors acknowledge all that ELs bring to schoolin terms of dispositions, prior learning, life experiences, and academic knowledgeshowing us how to translate those skills, dispositions, and experiences into a useful foundation for academic learning in English. Teachers will find many useful and compelling resources in this book!

Pia Wong, professor of education, Sacramento State University

Navigating the Common Core with English Language Learners is the best resource I've seen connecting Common Core and ELLs; in fact, it is just as valuable for my work with English proficient students.

Lara Hoekstra, classroom teacher with over 15 years of experience working with ELLs

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Larry Ferlazzo has taught English and social studies to English language learners and mainstream students at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California, for 11 years. He has written seven previous books, The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide (with coauthor Katie Hull Sypnieski); Building a Community of Self-Motivated Learners: Strategies to Help Students Thrive in School and Beyond; Classroom Management Q&As: Expert Strategies for Teaching; Self-Driven Learning: Teaching Strategies for Student Motivation; Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers to Classroom Challenges; English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies That Work; and Building Parent Engagement in Schools (with coauthor Lorie Hammond).

He has won numerous awards, including the Leadership for a Changing World Award from the Ford Foundation, and was the grand prize winner of the International Reading Association Award for Technology and Reading.

He writes a popular education blog at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/; a weekly teacher advice column for Education Week Teacher, and a weekly post for the New York Times on teaching English language learners. Larry is an Adjunct Faculty member at the Department of Education, California State University, Sacramento, teaching credential candidates how to work with English Language Learners at the secondary level. His articles on education also regularly appear in the Washington Post and ASCD Educational Leadership.

Larry was a community organizer for 19 years prior to becoming a public school teacher. He is married and has three children and two grandchildren.

Katie Hull Sypnieski has worked with English language learners at the secondary level for 20 years and has taught English and ELD at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California, for the past 13 years.

She is a teaching consultant with the Area 3 Writing Project at the University of California, Davis, and has led professional development for teachers of ELLs at the district and site level.

She is the coauthor (with Larry Ferlazzo) of The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide and has written articles for the Washington Post, ASCD Educational Leadership, and Edutopia.

Katie lives in Sacramento with her husband and their three children.

Caleb Cheung is the Science Manager and previously a science teacher in the Oakland Unified School District for the past 20 years. His work focuses on developing extensive districtwide structures and regional partnerships for improving science education and implementing the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). He has a background in biology and is National Board Certified in Early Adolescent Science. In 2005, Caleb won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching, and from 20062009 he served as a Commissioner and the Chair of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. He currently serves on the Science Curriculum Framework and Evaluation Criteria Committee to align California's Science Framework to NGSS.

Wendy Jennings has been a mathematics educator in Sacramento City Unified School District for the past 13 years. She has degrees in anthropology (BA), mathematics (BS), and human behavior (MA). Wendy also works with the UC Davis C-STEM center on the integration of computer programming and robotics into mathematics curriculum.