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Here are some links to professional organizations that might be of use to teachers of English language learners. Most of these are links to organizations that provide information on adult education because that is what I currently teach.

The Spring Institute The Spring Institute offers a wide range of language classes and consulting for individuals, organizations, and communities. They reach many groups of adult English learners including refugees and international professionals. This could be a good resource for families of students we work with (or the students themselves, if they are adults) or other organizations that are looking to provide services for CLD families.

CAL The Center for Applied Linguistics provides information on many topics related to language learning: bilingual education, adult education, K-12, heritage languages, SIOP, two-way immersion, etc. and published resources on each topic.

CAELA The Center for Adult English Language Acquisition is part of CAL but this website provides some specific teacher tools and program building tools for adult English education.

TESOL The TESOL website has all kinds of information on teaching language learners. It includes several publications, standards for both K-12 and adults, and information on awards and grants. You could spend several hours on this website and still not get through everything!