(Past Event) Creating High-Quality Learning Opportunities for Multilingual Learners 

Learn how K–12 educators can design high-quality, challenging, and supportive learning opportunities for Multilingual Learners. 

The first edition of the book Amplifying the Curriculum, published by Teachers College Press in association with WestEd, offered an ambitious model for educators to design tasks, lessons, and units of study that invite English Learners and other students in need of language and literacy support to engage in meaningful and intellectually engaging learning. 

Now expanded and revised to include four new chapters, the updated second edition brings the model into the present to continue to support K–12 educators in designing high-quality, challenging, and supportive learning opportunities for Multilingual Learners. 

Join the book editors, Aída Walqui, George C. Bunch, and Peggy Mueller, for a free webinar that looks at the book’s key contributions and explores the central argument that instruction should amplify—rather than simplify—expectations, concepts, texts, and learning tasks.  

This webinar is hosted by Teachers College Press and WestEd. 

Who Should Attend

• Teacher educators 
• Elementary and secondary teachers (PK–12) 
• Curriculum coordinators  
• Professional developers  
• School administrators  
• Researchers 
• All others who work with Multilingual Learners 

Featured Speakers

Aída Walqui 
Walqui directs the National Research and Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners housed at WestEd. Walqui is a nationally and internationally known researcher and practitioner whose work addresses the development of extensive and generative educator expertise in intercultural, multilingual settings. 

George C. Bunch 
Bunch is a professor and former chair of education at the University of California, Santa Cruz. 

Peggy Mueller 
Mueller is a lifelong educator, teacher educator, curriculum developer, and education policy analyst. 

Moderator

Magaly Lavadenz  
Lavadenz is the Leavey Presidential Chair in Ethics and Moral Leadership and founding Executive Director of the Center for Equity for English Learners and Co-Director of Bilingual/Bicultural Education in the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University. Her research addresses the intersections and impact of policies and practices for Multilingual/Multicultural Learners, their teachers, and school leaders. 

This webinar sponsored by the National Research & Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners at WestEd, Teachers College Press, and Loyola Marymount University.