Stanford Team Releases Common Core Teacher Training Materials

Lesli A. Maxwell writes at the Education Week (5/31) "Learning the Language" blog that a "team of prominent experts" from Stanford University are releasing draft materials on "how to prepare educators for teaching the common standards to English-learners," noting that the group "gave a preview of several resources under development at a Seattle meeting of the Council of the Great City Schools earlier this month." The group released a "a draft of six instructional principles to help guide teachers who work with ELLs as they implement the more rigorous math and English/language arts standards," the first of which instructs teachers to utilize elements from the students' native language and culture.