And Justice for ELs. Ayanna Cooper
What Your Colleagues Are Saying …
Every educator is struggling with supporting ELs in a systemic, sustainable way. This book simplifies what’s necessary while advocating for a sense of urgency to review data, assess models, and support EL teachers in utilizing best practices and ongoing professional learning.
Dana Salles Trevethan
Superintendent
Turlock Unified School District, CA
This book provides campus and district leadership with clearly defined reasons for supporting an equitable campus program for all learners, especially ELs. The scenarios and guiding questions are useful in initiating relevant discussion and provoking thoughtful discussions. Ayanna Cooper writes in a manner that will enhance EL advocacy for leaders regardless of EL experience.
Joseph Cerna
Elementary Principal and Adjunct Professor of Educational Leadership
Fort Sam Houston Elementary and Texas A&M San Antonio
A great resource for school leaders and English language directors. This book is a complete resource to assist with launching or enhancing an English language program in any school.
Laura Schaffer Metcalfe
Education Faculty
Grand Canyon University, AZ
This book is a practical and useful tool for building administrators and all who are interested in assessing their current models for supporting EL learners with an eye to improving their programs. It’s practical and easy to read with great suggestions that you can use and implement immediately.
Marianne Lucas Lescher
School Principal
Kyrene Traditional Academy, AZ
This book highlights the importance of administrators developing the skills, supports, and structures that support English learners in achieving academic success and strengthening wellbeing. Cooper presents an array of considerations for administrators including: reflecting on personal knowledge, identifying areas for personal learning, building staff capacity and recognizing this must be through a job-embedded model, staffing, targeting instruction to reduce linguistic gaps for learners, and working to support parents with information and collaborating as partners.
Maryam Hasan
Vice Principal
Toronto District School Board, Toronto, Canada
This book offers a compelling message of hope for our linguistically diverse learners. An easy read for busy educators and a resource for administrators. This is the one tool needed that is research based and proven to enhance the professional learning model of one’s organization to support student achievement.
Debra Paradowski
Associate Principal
Arrowhead Union High School, WI
This is an easy-to-read and easy-to-implement book. Each chapter is carefully broken down. Educators will find a lot of useful ideas within each chapter. The questions that are posed as a way of taking inventory of what you are currently doing in your school are extremely helpful and easy to use.
Lindsay Morhart
Teacher
Regina Catholic School Division, Saskatchewan, Canada
And Justice for ELs is an excellent guide for practitioners who seek to provide their English learners with high quality instruction in all subject areas. Too often such students are relegated an education that marginalizes them academically and fails to develop their native language skills. We can and must do a better job for these students and in this book Ayanna Cooper shows us how. Written in a clear and straightforward manner, this book will be an invaluable resource for educators who seek to make a difference.
Pedro A. Noguera
Distinguished Professor of Education Faculty and Director of the Center for the Transformation of Schools
UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
School leaders will appreciate that Dr. Cooper’s text takes them beyond legal compliance and moves their school toward real equity, excellence, and meaningful engagement for their English learners. Her essential questions will promote action-focused conversations that move the needle significantly toward justice and excellence for all.
Tim Boals
WIDA Founder and Director
Dr. Ayanna Cooper has made an incredible contribution to the field of education. And Justice For ELs equips educational leaders with the knowledge and confidence to create sustainable change as schools across the United States strive to meet the unique needs of English learners.
Sharon H. Porter, EdD
Executive Director
Next In Line to Lead Aspiring Principal Leadership Academy
Dr. Ayanna Cooper’s And Justice for ELs is a must-read for school leaders and other educators who wish to move their schools and districts from equity to excellence in order to fully serve their ELs. Framed in research, law, and policy, yet rooted in practical actions, this book will provide a clear path to educators who desire to do what’s right and just for their students and families.
Diane Staehr Fenner
Author of “Unlocking Englisher Learners’ Potential” and President of SupportEd Consulting
And Justice for ELs
A Leader’s Guide to Creating and Sustaining Equitable Schools
Ayanna Cooper
Foreword by Margarita Espino Calderón
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