<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.746094); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><strong>AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENTS WHO ARE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS</strong><br></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.746094); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><strong>An excellent brief from the WIDA Consortium about America Indian Students who are also English Language Learners (ELL)</strong></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.746094); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><strong><a href="http://wida.us/resources/focus/WIDA_Focus_on_AIELL.pdf" target="_blank" title="Link: http://wida.us/resources/focus/WIDA_Focus_on_AIELL.pdf">Focus on American Indian English Language Learners</a> May 2014</strong></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.746094); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><i>“Language is a huge part of your culture. It is really hard to have one without the other” —David O’Connor, American Indian Studies Consultant, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (2013)</i></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.746094); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">The purpose of this WIDA Bulletin is to help educators make connections and provide contexts to deepen an awareness of the complexity and diversity of American Indian students identified as ELLs. To help achieve this objective, several guiding principles are presented that emerged from an interview conducted with Dr. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and American Indians Studies Consultant, David O'Connor. In addition to explanations of each guiding principal, a discussion tool is provided that can be used in your local context about how these guiding principles can impact your classroom and guide your instruction.</p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.746094); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><a href="http://wida.us/resources/focus/WIDA_Focus_on_AIELL.pdf" target="_blank" title="Link: http://wida.us/resources/focus/WIDA_Focus_on_AIELL.pdf">http://wida.us/resources/focus/WIDA_Focus_on_AIELL.pdf</a></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.746094); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><img class="posthaven-placeholder" width="48" height="48" data-posthaven-guid="newcp_92" unselectable="on" data-posthaven-type="document" undefined="" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; padding: 5px; cursor: pointer;" id="9b31b1a4-4cf3-4607-afbf-77924dfe61c8" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:49D0FD87-57B8-448B-9FF4-4C9D65330797@hil-sanahhf.snd.wayport.net"><img class="posthaven-placeholder" width="48" height="48" data-posthaven-guid="newcp_87" unselectable="on" data-posthaven-type="image" data-posthaven-no-preview="false" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; padding: 5px 25px 5px 5px; cursor: pointer; background-image: url(https://posthaven-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/part_types/20/image.png); background-position: 55px 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;" id="c558f7c4-3fae-4843-87ee-dfc509362c48" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:3D41B2C8-7F02-4538-8DEC-97A98858D1AC@hil-sanahhf.snd.wayport.net"></p></body></html>