The Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies (MCSS) produced a series of instructional tools to support access to Document-Based Questions (DBQs) for Multilingual Learners (MLLs).
Published on Tue, 11/07/2023
The English Learner Collaborations project has added new lesson plan examples to the Emerging America website that demonstrate the use of scaffolds and supports for English Learners.
Although this series of lessons utilizes sources from the Civil Rights Movement, the topic of focus could be changed to better support student needs or to better align to your topics of study.
Throughout these lessons, multilingual learners will develop the language necessary for success in the content area of social studies.
Published on Mon, 07/31/2023
Accessing Inquiry for English Learners through Primary Sources will be offered at the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) in Northampton, Massachusetts in a two-session format, meeting Thursdays a month apart, October 19 and November 16.
Published on Mon, 01/23/2023
Guest post by Jacqueline LaFrance
January, 2023
Published on Tue, 12/06/2022
This post appeared in edited form in the Daily Hampshire Gazette column Chalk Talk, on November 18, 2022.
Students will practice summarizing interpretations of Freedoms of Speech under
the First Amendment.
Published on Mon, 10/04/2021
In a 10th grade classroom, a newly arrived student from Sudan, a returning student from a migrant worker family, and a student whose family came from Cambodia in the 1970s are among the 25 students in a US History class. These three students have been silent in all previous class discussions.© 2020 Collaborative for Educational Services - All Rights Reserved