Lunch will be provided.
Dr. Aída Walqui started and developed the Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) initiative. She brings a careerlong focus on increasing the academic success of English language learners. She has had a long and successful career in the development of teacher expertise to work with second language learners in deep, rigorous, and accelerated ways in both their family and second languages. Aída, a Ph.D. graduate from Stanford University, taught Language Arts, ESL, and Social Studies in Spanish and English at Alisal High School in Salinas, California for six years.
Dr. Walqui is one of the founding members of the Stanford University Understanding Language initiative, and co-wrote two of the seminal white papers that lay out a vision for the education of English Language Learners in an era of Common Core Standards. She has published extensively on indigenous education in Latin America and the education of English Learners in the United States. Two of her main books are Scaffolding the Academic Success of Adolescent English Language Learners: A Pedagogy of Promise co-authored with Leo van Lier, and English Language Learners and the new standards. Developing language, content knowledge, and analytical practices in the classroom, co-authored with Margaret Heritage and Robert Linquanti and published by Harvard Education Press in 2015.
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