TESOL Zip Guide: Advocating for English Learners

The goal of advocacy for English learners is social justice; through advocacy, we can improve all students’ educational outcomes and life chances. TESOL Zip Guide: Advocating for English Learners is a compact and easy-to-use six-panel resource for English language educators working with kindergarten through adult English learners. The guide presents the five fundamentals needed to advocate for English learners in the classroom and school, strategies and guidance for community advocacy, tips for keeping an asset framework and taking immediate advocacy action, and suggestions for how to bring advocacy-focused assignments into TESOL teacher preparation.

Heather Linville is an associate professor and director of TESOL at University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. James Whiting is a professor of applied linguistics and coordinator of the graduate TESOL program at Plymouth State University.