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Database of Online Resources for School Improvement (2009) This online database lists online resources for school improvement by topics that include: Curriculum and Instruction, Family and Community Engagement, High School Reform, Leadership, School Improvement and Accountability, Teacher Quality, and NCLB.

Price: $0 Afterschool Training Toolkit DVD: Short Videos of Promising Practices in Afterschool (2008) Brief videos illustrate promising teaching techniques in six key areas: the arts, homework, literacy, math, science, and technology. Use these free videos with afterschool staff to explore new ways to embed academics in fun afterschool activities.

Instructor’s Guides to the Afterschool Training Toolkit (2008) For use with the online Afterschool Training Toolkit, these print guides help instructors master research-based teaching techniques that engage students and improve academic achievement.

Professional Development Guides for the Afterschool Training Toolkit (2008) For use with the online Afterschool Training Toolkit, these print guides give program directors and site coordinators resources for leading professional development courses on building engaging afterschool activities.

6th Grade Classroom Episode: Collaborative Language Arts (2000) This classroom video episode depicts students engaged in several collaborative language arts activities, including writing and editing autobiographies, sharing book reviews, creating a myth, and writing free verse poems. Originally recorded in 2000, the video may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

Active Learning with Technology Video Series (2000) These ten videos were designed as part of the Active Learning with Technology (ALT) professional development portfolio and provide examples of effective uses of technology in classroom instruction. Originally recorded from 1999-2004, the videos may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

Reading Buddies: 1st and 5th Graders Learning Together (2000) This classroom video episode portrays how first grade and fifth grade students learn together as they create an electronic alphabet book for the younger children in their school.

What Can a Mathematics Teacher Do for the English Language Learner? (2009) Based on a 2006 professional development session for math and ESL specialists, this online interactive document includes teaching strategies for ELLs at various levels, critical components to include when designing math lessons for ELLs, and a list of relevant resources.

Afterschool Curriculum Choice: Literacy Resources (2008) This online database provides access to high-quality literacy resources related to afterschool and expanded learning.

Afterschool Lesson Plan Database (2008) This online database contains fun and enriching lesson plans for afterschool projects in the arts, literacy, mathematics, science, and technology. Expanded learning practitioners can also submit their favorite lesson plans for consideration.

Afterschool Training Toolkit: Building Quality Enrichment Activities (2008) This online toolkit provides resources for developing fun, innovative, and academically enriching activities for afterschool and expanded learning programs. The toolkit includes promising practices and sample lessons in the arts, literacy, math, science, technology, and homework help.

Making Consistent Decisions about Accommodations for English Language Learners: Research Summit Proceedings (2008) In March 2009, researchers and practitioners convened in Austin, Texas, for a research summit on linguistic accommodations in instruction and on assessments for English language learners (ELLs). This online publication describes the proceedings and outcomes of the summit.

Rapid Response: Alignment of University Curricula for Preservice Teachers With Scientifically Based Reading Research (2008) This resource was produced in response to a request: "What are state departments of education (SDE) doing to ensure that their universities are aligning their curricula with scientifically based reading research (SBRR) resources and practices with regard to teaching preservice teachers reading courses? This includes content, instruction, and books."

Rapid Response: Alternate Reading Core Curriculum for Students with Disabilities (K–3) (2008) This resource was produced in response to the request: "Are states using an alternate reading core curriculum to teach students with disabilities in kindergarten through third grade (K–3)? Include any research on efficacy, if possible, specifically with reference to the southeastern United States."

Rapid Response: Multisensory Structured Language Programs for Students With Characteristics of Dyslexia (2008) This resource was produced in response to a request: "Are multisensory structured language (MSL) programs more effective than other intervention models for addressing the needs of students identified with characteristics of dyslexia? Does current scientifically based reading research (SBRR) support this or should new guidance to the districts be considered?"

Final Evaluation of the Texas A&M University System's Support Activities Related to the Limited English Proficient Student Success Initiative (2007) This report describes SEDL's 3-year evaluation study of the Texas A&M University System's online English as a second language (ESL)/bilingual professional development and LEP campus support services.

SEDL Letter, Volume XIX, Number 2 (Oct. 2007): Reading: Practices to Help Improve Instruction (2007) This issue of SEDL Letter examines classroom organization for effective reading instruction; how to strengthen literacy through father-child interactions; and systemic approaches, including Response to Intervention (RtI), to reading and school improvement.

Southeast Comprehensive Center e-Bulletin, Volume 2, Number 1 (Dec. 2007): Teaching Academic English to Ensure the Success of English Language Learners (2007) This issue of e-Bulletin, published quarterly, focuses on strategies for helping English language learners (ELLs) develop academic English.

Evaluation of Texas A&M University System's Support Activities Related to Limited English Proficient Student Success Initiative, Cycle 1 Grants (2006) SEDL conducted a 3-year evaluation study of the Texas A&M University System's online English as a second language (ESL)/bilingual professional development and LEP campus support services. The study used expert reviews to determine the quality and effectiveness of the professional development; surveys of teachers and administrators at grant-funded campuses to determine the extent to which teachers are implementing the ESL/bilingual teaching strategies; and site visits, focus groups, and interviews to determine the progress made in the development and completion of the deliverables.

Reading Assessment Database for Grades PreK–3 (2006) This database, a complementary tool to the Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read: A Framework, enables reading teachers to search for preK–3 reading assessments that test the framework's 14 reading skills.

Reading First Notebook: The Newsletter for the Reading First Program (2005) The Reading First Notebook was published on a quarterly basis from 2004 to 2006, and is now available online for download in pdf format. The newsletter provided thematic issues covering topics such as assessment, professional development, and instruction for special population students.

SEDL Letter, Volume XVII, Number 1 : Reaching Our Reading Goals (2005) This issue of SEDL Letter is devoted to topics related to reading instruction, including the role of literacy coaches, how to motivate readers, and instruction to improve comprehension.

Glossary of Reading-related Terms (2004) This glossary of terms related to reading and reading instruction allows people to quickly and easily check terms as they encounter them.

SEDL Letter, Volume XIV, Number 3 (Dec. 2002): Putting Reading First (2002) This issue of SEDL Letter focuses on early reading instruction and assessment, including topics such as reading and migrant students, the importance of phonemic awareness, and questions that can improve student thinking and learning.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Phive Phones of Reading (2002) This publication discusses the differences between the"phon" terms (phonics, phonetic spelling, phoneme awareness, phonological awareness, and phonology).

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Methods of Assessing Cognitive Aspects of Early Reading Development (2002) This article helps teachers better understand what reading abilities need to be tested and how to go about testing the essential areas that are so important to reading development.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Ten Myths of Reading Instruction (2002) This article examines 10 of the most popular and most potentially pernicious myths that influence reading education.

Literacy Profile Folder: How to Use the Literacy Profile (2001) This brief guide demonstrates how to use the Literacy Profile Folder effectively in the classroom.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: The Brain and Reading (2001) This publication examines the workings of the brain during reading and it's implications for reading assessment and reading instruction.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: What Does a Balanced Literacy Approach Mean? (2001) This publication asks the question, "What do children need to learn?" and focuses on whether Phonics instruction or Whole Language instruction should be used when teaching children to read.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Reading and the Three Cueing Systems (2001) This publication focuses on the Three Cueing Systems model of word recognition.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Making Sense of Reading (2001) This publication concentrates on teachers' conceptual understanding of reading and what parts of their reading instruction do or do not work.

Price: $15 Building Reading Proficiency at the Secondary Level: A Guide to Resources (2000) This publication reviews the scholarly literature to determine (a) current theoretical perspectives and research findings on building reading proficiency at the secondary level and (b) the implications of these findings for classroom instruction.

Price: $15 Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read: A Framework (2000) This book provides a concise summary of the research findings related to how children learn to read. A graphical representation of the framework is provided to familiarize teachers with the cognitive elements that research has shown to be essential in learning to read.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: What is Reading? Decoding and the Jabberwocky's Song (2000) This publication examines what it means when we talk about "the ability to read" and the need to define our terms more clearly.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence Series (2000) This series of briefing papers covers topics related to K–2 reading instruction, including “The Phive Phones of Reading,” “Reading by Sight,” “Regular and Exception Words,” and “Reading and the Three Cueing Systems.”

Reading Across the Region (1999) This short paper is a summary of reading initiatives and legislation in place or under consideration in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

SEDLetter, Volume XI, Number 1: Unlocking the Future: Early Literacy (1999) This issue of SEDLetter includes articles on reading instruction, early literacy, the Reading Success Network, and resources for improving children's ability to read, among other topics.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Phonics Rules (1999) This publication discusses the best approach for teaching children the system that is used for decoding English text.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Reading by Sight (1999) This publication questions whether it is beneficial for children to memorize words as wholes when the goal of reading is to learn to break words down into parts.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Regular and Exception Words (1999) This database, designed for teachers, contains exception words or irregular words -- words that are not spelled the way they sound.

LOTE CED Lowdown (2003) This newsletter contains news about topics of interest to language educators, LOTE CED activities, dates of professional conferences, information on teaching resources, and a spotlight on the TEKS for LOTE.

Online Professional Development Center: for Teachers of Languages Other Than English (LOTE) (2003) The LOTE CED Online professional Development Center includes five free self-guided professional development courses that help PreK-12 foreign language educators enhance their proficiency in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Languages Other Than English (TEKS for LOTE).

Differentiated Instruction in the Foreign Language Classroom: Meeting the Diverse Needs of All Learners: LOTE CED Communiqué - Issue 6 (2002)

Using Technology in a Standards-Based LOTE Curriculum: LOTE CED Communiqué - Issue 5 (2002)

Early Language Learning Programs: Reaping the Benefits, Facing the Challenges: LOTE CED Communiqué - Issue 4 (2001) This newsletter describes the types of early language learning programs that currently exist, and provides a rationale for implementing a language immersion model.

Enough Dissing Already! Fostering Connections Between Foreign Language Teachers at the Primary and Secondary Levels and Higher Education: LOTE CED Communiqué - Issue 1 (2001) This publication discusses how the foreign language education (FLE) field suffers from major "dissing" between practicing teachers, at the primary and secondary levels, and the post-secondary level.

Español para el hispanohablante (2001) This publication is designed to aid Spanish teachers in adapting standards-based instruction to the particular needs of native-speaker classes.

Price: $10 Great TEKSpectations: Innovative Learning Scenarios for the LOTE Classroom (2001) This publication of the Languages Other Than English Center for Educator Development (LOTE CED) contains 30 examples of thematic units of study that focus on the five Cs of language learning (Communication, Cultures, Comparisons, Connections, and Communities).

IC? I see! Developing Learners' Intercultural Competence: LOTE CED Communiqué - Issue 3 (2001) This newsletter discusses new ways to teach culture in the foreign language classroom.

In a World of Theory, Chaos Reigns: Theory to practice and Practice to Theory: LOTE CED Communiqué - Issue 2 (2001) This newsletter discusses the connection between practitioners, who concentrate on practical applications, and theorists, who focus primarily on the language acquisition process.

Learning Languages Other Than English: A Texas Adventure (2001) The five-video series demonstrates how the Program Goals (5 Cs) of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Languages Other Than English (TEKS for LOTE) are being implemented in classrooms across the state.

9th Grade Classroom Episode: Spanish Travelers (2000) This classroom video episode portrays small groups of students working on a project-based learning activity. Their task is to find pertinent information and create a travel brochure for selected Spanish speaking countries. Originally recorded in 2000, the video may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

Assessment Resources for Native American Learners (2000) This is a list of assessment resources for Native American Learners.

Native Education Resources for the Southwest Region (1999) This book serves as a regional directory on resources that might be helpful to educators of American Indian students in SEDL's five-state region.

Profiles of Native Language Education Programs (1999) This book describes 24 programs in SEDL's region and gives teachers and other educators who serve American Indian students in the Southwest access to organizations and resources that can help them meet the educational needs of this often underserved population.

Preparing Language Teachers to Implement the TEKS for LOTE (1997) This document identifies pre-service teacher standards and provides guidelines for teacher training institutions

Professional Development for Language Teachers: Implementing the TEKS for LOTE (1997) This document identifies in-service teacher standards and describes three models of professional development.

Texas Framework for Languages Other Than English (1997) This document serves as a resource for Languages Other Than English (LOTE) teachers as they implement the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Languages Other Than English (TEKS for LOTE).

Directory of Dual Language Programs in Texas (1996) This directory for school personnel provides information on how to expand/improve their dual-language programs, start a program, or refine and existing program.