Heather Parris - ELL Frontiers: Using Technology to Enhance Instruction for English Learners

This book will show you how to embrace technology and harness its power to meet the needs of your students. In the era of data-driven instruction and the need for differentiation for the diverse needs of ELs in the classroom, a technology-rich learning environment provides the opportunity to deliver lessons that allow for the precious time in class to be spent completing hands-on activities and using English in an authentic and meaningful manner.

Mandi Sanchez

Mid-State RBERN (Regional Bilingual Education Resource Network)

Liverpool, NY

The effective and purposeful use of technology tools can have a powerful impact on collaboration and the successful implementation of co-teaching models to best support English Learners. This book will help you to use technology tools that allow ELs to more fully participate with their peers. This will positively impact on learning and growth of the student. Through the effective use of technology tools, the important learning happening in the classroom will also be positively impacted.

Paul Louis

Director of Curriculum and Assessment

Kildeer School District 96

Many of our students are digital natives, no matter what their proficiency in English is! Since each author has worked directly with ELLs, their expertise is reflected in the tips they offer. This text will provide not only a hands-on guidebook for how to use technology specifically for our ELLs, but also the research to support each strategy provided. A must-read in our linguistically diverse, digital-age learning environments today!

Susanne Marcus

NYS TESOL Past President

The ideas introduced in this book can assist us in making the most of the available technology and digital resources of our 21st century classrooms as we plan instruction with our curriculum. The information is presented in an accessible and engaging way to regularly incorporate students lived experiences and the authentic phenomena of their worldthrough content using visual texts, videos, and other digital resources. This book can guide us to make the most of our face-to-face time with students through rich tasks requiring higher-level thinking and application of learning. Additionally, the seed lessons provide us with powerful entry points that support integration of the flipped classroom approach into our practice such that we may promote academic equity for ELLs and all learners.

Zaiba Beg

Instructional Coordinator: English Language Learners, ESL/ELB programs

Peel District School Board

Parris, Estrada, and Honigsfeld offer a dynamic reinterpretation of the learning and teaching environment in their book ELL Frontiers. With attention to detail, they describe learning possibilities and how technology can support English learners mastery of academic vocabulary and concepts, their development of oral fluency, and their participation in creative teams with native English-speaking students for mutual growth and benefit. Teachers will flip (with joy) as they read the many ways they can support ELs with technology and how such a classroom can promote authentic learning and assessment.

Don Hones

Chair of Department of Teaching and Learning

University of Wisconsin, Osh Kosh

A much-needed book to empower educators to empower their English language learners! ELL Frontiers contains tools and resources that narrow the digital divide and put students at the center, fostering active learning, as well as independent and engaged learners. New and experienced educators alike will learn what technology can do for the English language learner as a citizen of the digital age.

Carolyn Frye