Time: 10:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Mountain Time
Location: Crowne Plaza Albuquerque 1901 University Boulevard NE Albuquerque, NM 87102
Description: The purpose of the event is to share promising and effective practices for English learner students and the research-based evidence behind those practices, with a focus on integrated and designated English Language Development (ELD). This event will provide the opportunity for participants not only to hear from experts and district leaders from New Mexico and California about educational practices that support English learner students but also to participate in a hands-on lesson demonstration.
**Participants will: **
- Learn about ELD as a comprehensive system that incorporates both integrated and designated lessons.
- Receive strategies for implementing for designated ELD, a targeted instructional time in which lessons build into and from discipline-specific content learning.
- Learn about pedagogical design that incorporates development of English language proficiency while it engages in rich, rigorous, and relevant academic content learning.
- Gain a better understanding of a context for teaching and learning that culturally and linguistically sustains and affirms students' multiple and intersecting identities.
Audience: This event is designed for teachers, instructional coaches, site administrators, district administrators, state administrators, and university staff.
Speakers:
- Pamela Spycher, Senior Research Associate, REL Southwest, WestEd
- Liz Jameyson, Senior Research Associate, REL Southwest, WestEd
- Vanessa Girard, Director of Multilingual Literacy, Sacramento City Unified School District, California
- Berlinda Begay, Multiethnic Bilingual/Education Coordinator, Central Consolidated School District
- Renee Russ, Deputy Director of Federal Programs, Clovis Public Schools, New Mexico
- Ann Swickard, ELL District Coach, Albuquerque Public Schools
- Richard Cisneros, Instructional Manager, Albuquerque Public Schools
