Teacher Collaboration: Aligning Content and Language Instruction

Time: 3:30 pm ET

Location: Webinar

Description: Robust collaboration between content and language teachers is essential for English learner success and achievement. Such collaboration is even more critical as districts prepare to pivot to a variety of possible scenarios for instruction in fall 2020. Hosted by REL Southwest and the Office of English Language Acquisition, this webinar examined the policy context for content and language teacher collaboration, shared research-based practices and resources, and highlighted promising practices for teacher collaboration, and professional development in the post COVID-19 context.

Audience: This webinar is aimed at school district administrators, principals, and teachers seeking to improve outcomes for English learner students.

Speakers:

• Supreet Anand, Office of English Language Acquisition
• Maha Abdelkader, Office of English Language Acquisition
• Rebecca Bergey, REL Southwest
• Patricia Garcia-Arena, REL Southwest
• Brenda Arellano, REL Southwest
• Melissa Bratton, ESOL Director, Hot Springs School District, Arkansas
• Jennifer Bradley, ESOL Facilitator, Hot Springs School District, Arkansas