English Language Learners and RtI The RtI Action Network featured "English Language Learners and RtI" on March 24, 2009. Dr. Nonie Lesaux of the Harvard Graduate School of Education answered questions about effective literacy and English language instruction for English learners in the elementary and middle school grades. May be accessed at: http://www.rtinetwork.org/Professional/RTITalk                                  English Language Learners (ELLs) and RTI  About the presenter, Janette Klingner is a Professor of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder, specializing in bilingual special education. Dr. Klingner's research foci include the disproportionate representation of culturally and linguistically diverse students in special education, reading comprehension strategy instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse students, and enhancing the sustainability of culturally responsive and evidence-based practices through professional development. May be accessed at: http://www.rti4success.org/  RTI ELLs webinar.pdf

Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM)  for progress monitoring English language learners The  National Center on Student Progress Monitoring presented this webinar with Dr. Laura Sáenz (March 11, 2008 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM EDT), was designed to help participants understand the potential benefits of using . Special emphasis is given to using CBM to progress monitor English language learners within the context of a Responsiveness to Intervention (RTI) Model. Two assumptions of the RTI model, adequate opportunity to learn and rate of learning, as they apply to English language learners are explored. May be accessed at  http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/wested/print/htdocs/home.htm http://www.studentprogress.org/library/Webinars.asp#ELLReading

 EL supports:

11/18/09	Quality Teaching for English Learners: High Challenge and High Support	http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/view/e/3095
11/12/08	Making Standards-based Lessons Understandable for English Learners: The SIOP Model	http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/view/e/3063
11/5/08	English Learners in Secondary Mathematics: Rigor and Excellence	http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/view/e/3094
10/30/08	Taking Center Stage--Act II : Building Effective Programs for English Learners in the Middle Grades	http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/view/e/2973
10/29/08	Building Oral Language into Content Area Instruction (Research from CREATE)	http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/view/e/3090
10/28/08	What the Research Does—and Does Not—Say About Teaching English Language Learners	http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/view/e/3092
10/22/08	Doing What Works: Teaching Elementary-School English Learners .	http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/view/e/3087
10/15/08	English Learners and the Language Arts	http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/view/e/2972
10/8/08	English Learner Literacy Development through Formative Assessment of Oral Language	http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/view/e/3046

POWERPOINTS
Mike Vanderwood, Ph.D, RtI Partnership at the University of California Riverside	Use of Response to Intervention (RtI) with English Learners (EL)
A Cultural, Linguistic, and Ecological Framework for Response to Intervention with English Language Learners	Framework_for_RtI.pdf
The National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems	“Preventing Disproportionate Representation: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Pre referral Intervention” http://nccrest.org
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Rinaldi, C. & Samson, J. (2008). English Language Learners and   Response to Intervention. Referral Considerations. Teaching Exceptional Children, Vol. 40 (5) 6-14		Council for Exceptional Children