Background: These papers address language and literacy issues in the Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards. (January 2012). Selected people are being used at CDE to help transition the ELD standards to the CCSS. We’ll focus on selected articles this year. Retrieve papers at: http://ell.stanford.edu/papers.

Topic and Description
Practice in the Content Areas / 1.  Realizing Opportunities for ELLs in the Common Core English Language Arts and Disciplinary Literacy Standards
AUTHORS: George Bunch, Amanda Kibler, Susan Pimentel
This paper opens a larger – and – longer – conversation about what must be done to realize opportunities presented by the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and the literacy standards in other subject areas. It emphasizes the simultaneous challenges and opportunities for ELLs.
2.  Mathematics, the Common Core, and Language
AUTHOR: Judit Moschkovich
This paper makes recommendations for developing mathematics instruction for English language learners (ELLs) aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
3.  Language Demands and Opportunities in Relation to Next Generation Science Standards for ELLs
AUTHORS: Helen Quinn, Okhee Lee, Guadalupe Valdés
This paper highlights challenges and opportunities as English language learners engage with the Next Generation Science Standards. These new standards represent a major shift in science instruction, toward an explicit focus on scientific sense-making, language use, and scientific practices.
Language and Literacy / 4.  Language and the Common Core State Standards
AUTHORS: Leo van Lier, Aída Walqui
This paper points out three different ways that language is involved in the standards: language requirements in the content standards, English language arts standards, and language-convention-specific standards. It calls for a thoughtful integration of these three dimensions.
5.  What is the development of literacy the development of?
AUTHORS: Glynda Hull, Elizabeth Birr Moje
This paper highlights key findings of the socioculturally-focused “New Literacy Studies” and argues that literacy practices derive their vitality from curricula and activities that connect to learners' backgrounds and cultures.
6.  What does text complexity mean for English learners and language minority students?
AUTHORS: Lily Wong Fillmore, Charles J. Fillmore
This paper addresses the implications, for ELLs, of the new standards’ requirement that students be able to read and understand complex, informationally-dense texts.
Presentation on Text Complexity
Policy and Building System Capacity / 7.  Issues and Opportunities in Improving the Quality of Large Scale Assessment Systems for ELLs
AUTHORS: Jamal Abedi, Robert Linquanti
This paper outlines and addresses fundamental issues in assessing English language learners (ELLs), including “construct-irrelevant” factors that add unnecessary difficulty to tests, as well as uses of summative versus formative assessment.
8.  The Challenge of Assessing Language Proficiency Aligned to the Common Core State Standards and Some Possible Solutions
AUTHORS: Alison Bailey, Mikyung Kim Wolf
The authors discuss the challenges of assessing English Language Proficiency (ELP) in ways that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards, then making recommendations for developers of the next generation ELP assessments.
9.  Instruction for Diverse Groups of ELLs
AUTHORS: Aída Walqui, Margaret Heritage
The population of English language learners is enormously diverse. Teachers face the complex challenge of providing them with opportunities that allow them to attain the Common Core State Standards despite their various needs and abilities
10.  Teacher Development Appropriate to Support ELLs
AUTHORS: María Santos, Linda Darling-Hammond, Tina Cheuk
This paper outlines strategies to prepare teachers to better meet the needs of English language learners (ELLs). New academic and language demands placed on students will require the development of new skills among teachers and school leaders.
11.  Challenges and Supports for ELLs in Bilingual Programs
AUTHORS: María Estela Brisk, C. Patrick Proctor
This paper discusses the affordances and challenges of bilingual instruction programs in light of the new Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards.
12.  Critical Policy Levers for Effective Implementation of Common Core State Standards for ELLs
AUTHORS: Delia Pompa, Kenji Hakuta
This paper argues that the heightened expectations around language in the new standards pose major challenges for all students who engage with rich academic content, especially English language learners (ELLs).
13.  Online Community for Teachers of ELLs
AUTHORS: Rob Lucas, John Willinsky
This paper recommends strategies for cultivating – as opposed to centrally planning – an online community that supports the goals of Understanding Language, beginning with the assumption that technological development should serve the needs and shared goals of community members.
14.  DRAFT Key Principles for ELL Instruction
These principles are based on papers and discussions from a January 2012 conference. Considerations address Teacher Actions and Leadership Actions (schools and district levels).