This guide helps school leaders--superintendents, principals, curriculum supervisors, teachers, and teacher educators--create effective school policies, practices, and structures for English language learners in public schools. The book will be especially useful for those inexperienced with English language learners. Key Supreme Court cases that led to federal regulations for educating ELLs are summarized, and a framework is presented for designing and delivering high-quality instruction, enhancing parent engagement, and creating a whole-school community where ELLs can flourish. Each chapter opens with a fictional scenario compiled from real life and focuses on a key element of English language education programming, such as selecting effective program models, the subject matter component of an ELL program, identifying and working with ELLs with learning differences and learning disabilities, and making decisions based on effective measures of student performance. Numerous checklists and survey instruments are included. Zacarian directs the Center for English Language Education at the Collaborative for Educational Services in Northampton, Massachusetts. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)