Reconceptualizing the Development of Educator Expertise for a Multilingual, Intercultural Future
Thank you for attending our conference! We hope that the diverse events and presentations gave you food for thought and that some ideas from the conference will illuminate your path in search of quality and equity for our multilingual learners.
Below you can find the conference materials.
Keynote Presentations
Exploring the affordances offered by ecological research on the education of Multilingual Learners
Aída Walqui
Principal Investigator, National R&D Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners
Oregon Policies and Practices to Serve English Learners with Quality and Equity
Mary Martinez-Wenzl
Director of Multilingual and Migrant Education, Oregon Department of Education
Center Researchers Presentations
Examining access to core content for EL-classified students in high school
Ilana Umansky, Nami Shin, Karen Thompson, Janette Avelar, Jaclyn Bovee
Oregon State University
District policies for collaborative instructional models: Tensions of implementation
Amanda Kibler, Martha Sandstead, Sara Wiger, Sarah Howard
Oregon State University, Oregon Department of Education, WestEd
Challenges and affordances in the development of teacher expertise
Aída Walqui, Lee Hartman
WestEd
Dialogical practices: Developing deep conceptual understandings and language practices in Math
Leslie Hamburger
WestEd
Educative and dialogic curriculum in ELA
Mary Schmida
WestEd
National Experts Presentations
Transborder Multilingual Learners: The challenge and the opportunity
Tatyana Kleyn
City University of New York
The development of teacher expertise to work with English Learners with quality
Mari Haneda
Penn State University
District professional development: Status quo and possibilities
Alexandra Estrella
Norwalk Public Schools
An ecological perspective of Multilingual Learners in rural schools
Diego Román
University of Wisconsin
From semilingualism to academic language: Challenging dichotomous framings in U.S. language education policy
Nelson Flores
University of Pennsylvania
International Experts Presentations
Oracy education
Alice Stott
The Oracy Project, London, UK
Educational linguistics in the Australian context
Pauline Jones
University of Wollongong, Australia
Striving to transform the prevailing monocultural ethos in Latin America through education and other means
Luis Enrique López
Instituto Iberoamericano de Lenguas Indígenas, La Paz, Bolivia
Between Words, Between Worlds: Linguistic and Contextual Disruptions in the Transition from English to Spanish Literacy among Children Moving from the U.S. to Mexico
Víctor Zúñiga
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México
Speakers
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Alexandra Estrella, Superintendent, Norwalk Public Schools, CT
- Nelson Flores, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
- Susan Gardner, Dean, College of Education, Oregon State University
- Montserrat Garibay, Director of the Office of English Language Acquisition and Assistant Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
- Leslie Hamburger, Co-PI for Mathematics Study, WestEd
- Mari Haneda, Professor, The Pennsylvania State University
- Lee Hartman, ELA Specialist, WestEd
- Pauline Jones, Professor, Wollongong University, Australia
- Helyn Kim, Program Officer, Institute of Education Sciences
- Tatyana Kleyn, Professor, City University of New York
- Amanda Kibler, Professor, Oregon State University
- Jannelle Kubineck, CEO WestEd
- Luis Enrique López, Researcher, Instituto Iberoamericano de Lenguas Indígenas
- Mary Martínez-Wenzl, Director of Multilingual and Migrant Education, Oregon Department of Education
- Diego Román, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Mary Schmida, ELA Specialist, WestEd
- Alice Stott, Director of Programmes at Voice 21 UK
- Karen Thompson, Associate Professor, Oregon State University
- Ilana Umansky, Associate Professor, University of Oregon
- Guadalupe Valdés, Stanford University
- Gabriela Uro, Director for English Language Learner Policy and Research, Council of Great City Schools
- Aída Walqui, Director, National R&D Center
- Víctor Zúñiga, Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México
