• How to scaffold ELs’ instruction across content and grade levels • How to promote ELs’ oral language development and academic language • How to help ELs analyze text through close reading and text-dependent questions • How to build ELs’ background knowledge • How to design and use formative assessment with ELs Along the way, you’ll build the collaboration, advocacy, and leadership skills that we all need if we’re to fully support our English learners. After all, any one of us with at least one student acquiring English is now a teacher of ELs.