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This essential guide to the EL Education K-5 Language Arts Curriculum is one part roadmap to the curriculum, one part orientation to its instructional practices, and one part coach-to answer your questions, relieve your stress, and put you and your students on the path to success. Your Curriculum Companion explores the foundations of the curriculum, including the principles and research it was built on and the instructional practices that make it unique. The book is designed to help you ""look under the hood"" at practices embedded throughout the curriculum so that you can sharpen your instruction, support students to be leaders of their own learning, and make well-informed changes necessary to best meet your students' needs. Key features of Your Curriculum Companion include:

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This book is a must-read for anyone wanting a comprehensive understanding of the EL Education curriculum. I think anyone reading it will walk away with a deeper understanding of what it takes to develop agency in our students and realize the goal of equity for all, which in our case includes a high percentage of English language learners. This book could change the way we approach teaching English language arts using the EL Education curriculum. Tammi Bauschka, Literacy Program Specialist, Tucson, Arizona The work of implementing this curriculum at Explore Elementary has engaged our staff in moving beyond an awareness of the shifts necessary for success with college- and career-ready standards into application. This text has multiple uses, but as a leader I found it invaluable. It was instrumental in building my understanding of the ELA standards and instructional shifts in order to support my staff to grow during a time of second-order change. Annaleah Bloom, School Director, Denver The EL Education curriculum has transformed my teaching in dramatic ways. For the first time as a teacher, I know that I have a highly engaging curriculum that is meeting the needs of all of my students, today and everyday. In my 20+ years of teaching, no other curriculum could command this distinction. Kate Gutwillig, Grade 3 Special Education Teacher, New York City This curriculum has changed our lives...It has completely changed the way our teachers are teaching and our students are learning. Liz Freitag, Instructional Coach and Testing Coordinator, Valdosta, Georgia

This book is a must-read for anyone wanting a comprehensive understanding of the EL Education curriculum. I think anyone reading it will walk away with a deeper understanding of what it takes to develop agency in our students and realize the goal of equity for all, which in our case includes a high percentage of English language learners. This book could change the way we approach teaching English language arts using the EL Education curriculum. Tammi Bauschka, Literacy Program Specialist, Tucson, Arizona The work of implementing this curriculum at Explore Elementary has engaged our staff in moving beyond an awareness of the shifts necessary for success with college- and career-ready standards into application. This text has multiple uses, but as a leader I found it invaluable. It was instrumental in building my understanding of the ELA standards and instructional shifts in order to support my staff to grow during a time of second-order change. Annaleah Bloom, School Director, Denver The EL Education curriculum has transformed my teaching in dramatic ways. For the first time as a teacher, I know that I have a highly engaging curriculum that is meeting the needs of all of my students, today and everyday. In my 20+ years of teaching, no other curriculum could command this distinction. Kate Gutwillig, Grade 3 Special Education Teacher, New York City This curriculum has changed our lives...It has completely changed the way our teachers are teaching and our students are learning. Liz Freitag, Instructional Coach and Testing Coordinator, Valdosta, Georgia

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Libby Woodfin is the director of publications for EL Education. Libby started her career as a fifth‐ and sixth‐grade teacher at the original lab school for the Responsive Classroom in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and went on to become a counselor at a large comprehensive high school. Libby started with EL Education in 2007 while completing graduate work at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Education Policy and Management. Throughout her career, Libby has written articles, blogs, chapters, and books about important issues in education. Her previous books include Management in the Active Classroom; Leaders of Their Own Learning: Transforming Schools through Student-Engaged Assessment; Learning That Lasts: Challenging, Engaging, and Empowering Students with Deeper Instruction; Transformational Literacy: Making the Common Core Shift with Work That Matters; and Familiar Ground: Traditions That Build School Community. Suzanne Nathan Plaut, former director of curriculum design for EL Education, is now the managing director of program for EL Education. She previously served as the vice president of education at the Public Education & Business Coalition in Denver, Colorado, overseeing professional development, evaluation, and publications. Suzanne holds a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she served on the editorial board for the Harvard Educational Review. Her previous books include Transformational Literacy: Making the Common Core Shift with Work That Matters and The Right to Literacy in Secondary Schools. She has also been published in EdWeek. Plaut worked as a literacy coach and director of literacy in several Boston public schools and taught high school English in Colorado and New Zealand. She lives in Lafayette, Colorado with her husband and two daughters who were fortunate to attend an EL Education elementary school.

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