Resources to Support ELs and Teachers in Hybrid and Distance Learning Environments

As districts head into the 2020-2021 school year, Ellevation remains committed to supporting ELs and the educators who serve them. That's why we've created curated resources to support learning before classroom instruction and across all learning environments. Click below to learn how Ellevation can ensure you provide the must-have techniques for engaging ELs right now.

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Ellevation empowers teachers, administrators and ELs with the only system designed to go beyond compliance and impact instruction. With greater access to information and effective measurement, Ellevation creates a higher level of accountability, helping everyone reach their highest potential.

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Data & Instructional Planning

Ensure that the key data & program information needed to meet diverse program requirements are in one convenient place - not multiple spreadsheets, folders and complicated data platforms.

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Teacher Capacity

Empower teachers of every subject and grade to differentiate instruction for ELs with skill and confidence while engaging all students in sound pedagogical practices.

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Academic Language

Prepare ELs to understand in-class instruction by teaching them the academic language they must know to access rigorous, grade-level math content.

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Teachers
Students
EL Coordinators
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Curriculum + Instruction
Principals
Principals

Address the needs of your ELs with confidence

With accountability for ELs now measured at the school level, it’s more important than ever for school principals to have the tools they need to make better decisions. Ellevation allows all educators and administrators to store and analyze EL data all in one platform.

Benefits for Principals
If you have good solid instruction with your ELs, it’s going to impact the entire campus. Ellevation has helped with that.
Don Hernandez, Principal, Sam Houston Middle School
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Teachers
Teachers

Differentiate instruction with skill and confidence

With Ellevation, teachers can do more of what they love – teaching. It’s easy to incorporate research-based instructional activities into any existing lesson to skillfully differentiate instruction for English learners. The platform also supports access to EL data, team-wide collaboration, and professional development initiatives.

Benefits for Teachers
My confidence has really grown in how to differentiate instruction for them. Next year, I hope I have more ELLs in my classes.
Tyler Chambers, 7th Grade Teacher
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Students
Students

Learn the language needed for grade-level math content

Ellevation Math teaches key mathematical vocabulary and concepts through direct instruction, taught in-context and with appropriate EL scaffolds. It directly addresses grade-level math standards using technology to enable unique content that is both accessible and rigorous.

Benefits for Students
Why didn’t you just teach it to us like this the first time?
7th grade English Learner in Texas
EL Coordinators
EL Coordinators

Less time on compliance, more time on instruction

Ellevation reduces time spent on administrative tasks by more than 70%. Coordinators unify EL data sources, monitor student progress, generate reports for stakeholders, and more with a click of a button. The result: More time to focus on EL instruction and running a high-performance program.

Benefits for Coordinators
Ellevation makes our job easier! As a department, we use it every day to review information at the campuses and determine how we can best support both teachers and kids.
Deb Tietjen, Coordinator
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EL Specialists
EL Specialists

Your voice, in every classroom

Every day, specialists make important ELL decisions, ranging from program placements to service adjustments, testing and instructional accommodations, goal setting, exit decisions, and more. With Ellevation, this information can be recorded quickly and easily allowing every specialist to focus on teaching, not on paperwork.

Benefits for Specialists
I love sharing the useful and user-friendly Ellevation strategies with my colleagues as well as using them in my own ELL classes! When a teacher needs some support or even has a question, Ellevation provides us with the help we need.
Diana West, ESOL Specialist, Rome City Schools
Curriculum + Instruction
Curriculum + Instruction

All teachers can be teachers of language

Ellevation gives your schools the tools needed to differentiate instruction for each and every EL. Our digital platform saves school districts time offering a full range of reporting and compliance capability, in addition to providing over 80 classroom activities authored by the country’s top language acquisition experts, including Dr. Jeff Zwiers, Dr. Jana Echevarria and Dr. Tim Boals.

Benefits for Curriculum + Instruction
What I love about Ellevation is that it starts to get you thinking about what supports students need, not this idea that everybody needs the same support. It takes some of the guessing out of that for teachers.
Jana Beth Francis, Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning, Daviess County Public Schools
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Teachers
Students
EL Coordinators
EL Specialists
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Building better EL programs nationwide.

More than 800 districts and over 100,000 educators across the United States use Ellevation to track performance for over 3,000,000 ELs. With Ellevation, it’s easy to identify students who need extra assistance and drive performance across the district.

District:
Little Rock School District
Result:
After implementing Ellevation Strategies, preliminary results are encouraging: 33 percent of students grew one language level on the ELPA21 in year one.
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District:
Houston Independent School District
Result:
Sofia Alfaro rose from a student laboring to learn English to valedictorian of her senior class. With the help of Ellevation, none of Houston ISD's 60,000+ ELLs fall through the cracks.
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District:
Greenfield Union School District
Result:
Using Ellevation, the district was able to identify that 11% of their English Learners were ready for reclassification, an increase of 3% from their largest exit group.
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District:
Bowling Green Independent School District
Result:
Being able to understand student data – from test scores to goals progress – allows the teachers to identify knowledge gaps and take action to better serve their kids.
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District:
Roanoke County Public Schools
Result:
ESOL teachers can write customized goals for their students, track growth, and collaborate with classroom teachers to ensure language support is embedded in their instruction.
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District:
Birdville Independent School District
Result:
Teachers know how to group their students, what accommodations to use, and what they should do to best support them.
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District:
Garland Independent School District
Result:
In 2017, the district completed 6,189 MOY LPACs in just 16 days while collecting nearly 10,000 designated support recommendations from teachers in just 23 days.
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District:
Napa Valley Unified School District
Result:
Ellevation has made it easy to automatically view students who are ready to exit the program based on the district’s grade-specific exit criteria.
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District:
Tulsa Public Schools
Result:
Teachers are less stressed and more confident teaching ELLs. They’re happy and thrilled to be supporting their kids. And, the students are receiving the instruction they need.
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District:
Various Indiana Districts
Result:
With Ellevation making processes so much simpler and more efficient across Indiana, districts can spend more time thinking about instruction and how to better support their students.
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District:
Various California Districts
Result:
Using Ellevation, Greenfield Union School District was able to identify that 11% of their English Learners were ready for reclassification, an increase of 3% from their largest exit group
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District:
Moreno Valley Unified School District
Result:
The EL program at Moreno Valley now spends less time on compliance and more time supporting teachers with instruction. In turn, the district has raised the bar for language instruction and is better able to serve its English Language students.
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School:
Sam Houston Middle School
Result:
From 2017 to 2018, the percentage of ELs that achieved Approaches Grade Level or Above on the STAAR Math and Reading assessment improved 6 and 4 percentage points, respectively.
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District:
Hillsborough County
Result:
How Hillsborough County, FL used Ellevation to transform compliance and enhance instruction for 23,000 English Learners.
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Input & Expertise from industry leaders

Ellevation’s Instructional Advisory Board provides valuable input on connecting Strategies and Activities to content areas. Our team of experts recommends realistic lesson implementation, rubrics teachers can use to check for student understanding, and additional activities to offer ELs.

Tim Boals

Executive Director
WIDA
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David Holbrook

Executive Director of Federal Compliance and State Relationships
TransACT
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John Seidlitz

Founder
Seidlitz Education
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Jeff Zwiers

Senior Researcher
Stanford University
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Across the United States, districts use Ellevation to track student performance and to drive performance district-wide.
 

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