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What:
Many school districts are focusing on creating more consistency in how they teach literacy to English-language learners across schools.
Their efforts include:
- Reviewing research on best practices for ELLs
- Beefing up professional development on strategies to reach ELLs, and
- Creating district wide curriculum that addresses the needs of such students.
Such efforts are particularly important as school districts consider how to implement the common core state standards for English-language learners. The Council of the Great City Schools has been a leading organization in advising and supporting school districts to form coherent and workable plans to serve this fast-growing population of students.
Our webinar guests will discuss both the research on the most effective approaches to improving literacy for ELLs and how some school districts have tried to carry out those approaches.
When:
May 4, 2011
12:00 - 1:00pm Mountain
Guests:
- Diane August, Ph.D. is a senior research scientist affiliated with the Center for Applied Linguistics, in Washington. She is a frequent speaker on research-based practices for teaching literacy to ELLs at conferences. She is the principal investigator for a large federally-funded study investigating the development of literacy in English-language learners.
- Gabriela Uro is the manager of ELL policy and research for the Washington-based Council of the Great City Schools. She organizes teams to conduct comprehensive audits of ELL services in large urban school districts. She’s also a liaison for the council’s task force on English-language learners and bilingual education.
This webinar will be moderated by Mary Ann Zehr, assistant editor of Education Week and author of Learning the Language, a blog about English-language learners.
