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Where Are They Now? WIT for Newcomers Year 3 (Video, 2020-2021)

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WIT for Newcomers Year 2 (Video, 2019)

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WIT for Newcomers Year 2

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WIT Makes a First-year ESL Teacher Better (Video, 2018)

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Laura Pamplona & Students / WIT with English Learners

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Back to School for ELs After COVID-19 (English Learners Success Forum, May 2020)

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What will going back to school look like for the country’s 4.8 million English learners, many of whom are currently unable to access remote learning during school closure?  Many families of ELs may have lost jobs or suffered from the virus itself, unable to send remittances to loved ones living in other countries, and many …

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Strategic Inquiry as Part of Leadership Development in Anaheim, CA (Video, May 2019)

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Meet Team Savanna’s Continuous Improvement and Strategic Inquiry Team.  Team Savanna conducted inquiry as part of their coursework in a leadership preparation in a program called LEAD, jointly run by the Anaheim School district and California State University, Fullerton.

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Writing is Thinking, and That Makes Strategic Inquiry a Solution for Students (The Hechinger Report, May 2019)

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It’s widely accepted that there is a crisis in reading in this country, but there is also a writing crisis that requires our attention. Regardless of where one stands on the education reform spectrum, we all must do everything possible to find the best, most comprehensive solutions to address this crisis. According to the National Assessment …

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Teaching Model Takes Strategic Approach to Identifying the Skills Students Missed (Education Dive, April 2019)

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Andy Lee thought he was helping some of his struggling students learn how to write an argumentative essay by breaking the task into smaller pieces, such as focusing first on the skill of paraphrasing. After all, Strategic Inquiry — the method the English department chair and lesson design coach at Savanna High School in Anaheim, California, is …

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A Strategy that’s Working in New York School Turnaround (Gotham Gazette, January 2019)

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For decades, decisions about education policy in New York have been filtered through state and local conflicts. Indeed, politics often dominates, divides, and obscures the conversation, causing many to lose sight of the most fundamental question for anyone who cares about education reform: how do students learn? In looking for an answer, we found a …

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Columbia University Study Shows Program Helped Troubled Schools (Daily News, December 2018)

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A program to aid troubled city high school students helped more kids get on track to graduate, Columbia University researchers found.  A study to be published by Columbia’s Teachers College Tuesday shows that students in schools that adopted the Strategic Inquiry program – which helped educators to target struggling kids and get them help – …

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Strategic Inquiry: An Education Reform That Worked (Daily Kos, December 2018)

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In 2014 newly elected Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that instead of closing “troubled schools” and simply reshuffling the deck, New York City would invest in a “Renewal” program to turn the schools around and benefit their students. Ninety-four schools were enlisted based on low four-year graduation rates and poor test scores for middle and elementary schools. Renewal …

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