Director, Teacher Professional Development Program
Aída Walqui directs WestEd's Teacher Professional Development Program as well as the Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) project. As Director of the Teacher Professional Development Program, she is responsible for collaborating with ongoing WestEd teacher professional development efforts and leading the agency's commitment to supporting teachers throughout their careers, from preservice through lifelong learning and teacher leadership.
As Director of QTEL, Walqui brings a careerlong focus on increasing the academic success of English language learners. She leads the development and implementation of the QTEL approach to professional development and the articulation of QTEL principles in the development of QTEL curricula. Walqui collaborates with school and district leaders across the country to tailor QTEL implementation that is responsive to local needs. She is often found observing and coaching in the classrooms of teachers learning the QTEL approach.
Walqui has taught in high school and university settings, including the School of Education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Stanford University, where she coordinated the cross-cultural, linguistic, and academic development emphasis in the STEP program. She has also taught in other universities in Peru, Mexico, England, and the United States. Walqui has authored books for the study of Spanish for Spanish speakers in American schools; a book for teachers of Spanish as a second language in Andean countries; a book on the teaching of indigenous languages in intercultural, bilingual programs; an ethnographic study of immigrant students in secondary schools in the United States; and a number of articles in journals and edited volumes. A member of several national and international teacher professional development advisory boards, Walqui is frequently invited to speak on teacher growth in school contexts characterized by cultural and linguistic diversity.
A native of Peru, Walqui received her Licenciatura in literature from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru. She holds an MA in sociolinguistics from Georgetown University and a PhD in language, literacy, and culture from Stanford University.
Tel: 415.615.3262
415.565.3012
Email: awalqui@wested.org
Mailing Address:
730 Harrison Street
San Francisco, California 94107-1242
Project Work:
Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL)Resource Involvement:
Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers
Access and Engagement: Program Design and Instructional Approaches for Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools
Scaffolding the Academic Success of Adolescent English Language Learners
