When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.    ~Leonardo DaVinci

Welcome to the Eastern Stream Center!

We are a national resource center dedicated to improving educational opportunities for ALL children.

We conduct professional and program development activities with federal, state, and local education agencies and schools to help improve services to:

  • English language learners,
  • challenged readers,
  • students with disabilities, and
  • other at-risk populations.

Located at the State University of New York at Oneonta, we partner with federal, state, and local education agencies to help improve services for all youth.


LATEST NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS:

Attend Our Institute on Differentiated Literacy Coaching: Scaffolding for Student and Teacher Success - Oct 15 - 17, 2008

Literacy

With an ever-increasing focus on reading achievement in schools today, many districts are hiring literacy coaches and teacher leaders to provide embedded professional learning opportunities for their staff.

Coaching holds great promise as a tool to increase teacher’s content knowledge. It’s an essential ingredient in educator’s efforts to increase student achievement, and it has the potential to nurture a culture of academic focus by valuing current professional knowledge and extending and enhancing effective pedagogical practice.

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2008 Florida Migrant & Homeless Education State Conference

Presentation | Upcoming Events

ESCORT is working with the Florida Department of Education to host the

2008 Florida Migrant & Homeless Education State Conference
October 21-24, 2008
Naples Grande Beach Resort
Naples, FL

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Help Kit for ELL Coaches

Submitted by ESCORT Staff on Thu, 2008-02-07 10:49. English Language Learning | HelpKit | Literacy

This HELP KIT will provide information, resources, and case studies on coaching in the English language learner (ELL) context that will be helpful to those who are facilitating professional learning for their colleagues. It will explore various formats of coaching (Collaborative Resource Management, Content Presentations, Focused Classroom Visits, Coplanning, Study Groups, Demonstration Lessons, Peer Coaching and Coteaching), and provide helpful guidelines for effectively implementing the strategies.

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Literacy Coaching

Submitted by ESCORT Staff on Thu, 2007-12-06 17:43. Literacy

In recent years coaching has gained popularity as a preferred mode of professional learning for educators. This is in large part due to the Reading First Initiative of No Child Left Behind.

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