Publications
Bolstering Vocabulary with Teacher Talk in the Classroom
Strategic Modeling to Elevate Students' Language
Kristen Haase and Carmen Shahadi Rowe
This practical guide introduces "Teacher Talk," an easy-to-use tool for teachers to help improve elementary students’ vocabulary. When students are exposed to extensive vocabularies, they are better prepared to build their receptive and productive language and succeed academically. Through many inviting examples and real-world guidance, Rowe and Haase explain how to be reflective and intentional about the language you use and how to use elevated or substitutionary language to model different registers of speech for elementary students.
TESOL Connections
3 Strategies to Accelerate Language Acquisition
in Beginning ELs
Dr. Carmen Shahadi Rowe
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"The task of moving English learners (ELs) to proficiency in both English language development and academic standards achievement is monumental, but attainable when supported with both appropriately scaffolded content lessons and language instruction based on practical English as a second language theory and methodology."
Composing Storylines of Possibilities
Immigrant and Refugee Families Navigating School
In this book, internationally migrant families invite us to listen to the storylines of their mostly muted voices as they navigate the local schools in their new cultural context. They call us to hear them as they grapple with issues they encounter. They implore us to feel like an outsider and see the school as a foreign culture with language and communication barriers. The book is organized to enhance this carework. Each chapter begins with a vignette that includes the voices of one or more members of international migrating families, while introducing the context of the chapter. At the end of each chapter readers will find specific implications to consider. These are constructed with preservice teachers, practicing teachers, and educational administrators in mind. As you read each chapter, there is the call for school transformation. The families in this book entreat school personnel to engage with international migrant families and to embrace a risk and resilience model as we strive together for success. These storylines challenge us to examine our personal storylines for biases and deficit understandings and call us all to purposefully rewrite these in the spirit of possibilities as the families in this book have embodied for us.
The Pennsylvania Administrator
Challenging English Learners to Improve Academic Discourse
Wanda J Ramirez-Suarez and Dr. Carmen Shahadi Rowe
"Over the past decade, the expectations of the Pennsylvania State Standards have been clearly articulated. While the expectations of the standards have been defined, teachers and administrators are still learning to align the learning goals to the standards, choose rigorous texts and create meaningful, engaging activities that are also aligned to the standards. For English learners (EL), the task of attaining proficiency in the academic standards, as well as English proficiency, presents a double challenge."
