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Policy and Equity in the Education of English Learners: The Struggle Continues
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Magaly Lavadenz, Professor at Loyola Marymount University.
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Loosening The Reins: Evidence and Considerations for Lifting Restrictions on Resources for Schools
This brief offers critical moves state policymakers can make to find the right balance between state control versus more local control during an economic recession.
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Special Education Funding: Three Critical Moves State Policymakers Can Make to Maintain Funding and Bolster Performance
The brief guides policymakers to reaffirm the state’s commitment to educating students with disabilities, to use state policy to promote early intervention and to coordinate services, and to leverage flexibility in using federal and state special education funds.
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Student Progress Under California State University's Executive Order 1110: A Systemwide Analysis of Outcomes in 2018/19
This report is situated in the California state policy context regarding the importance of understanding how students make their way into, and through, postsecondary education options.
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A Meaning-Oriented Model of Language for the Classroom
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Beverly Derewianka, Emeritus Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
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The Role of Talk in Learning: Implications for Recently Arrived EAL and Refugee Background Students in Mainstream Classes
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Jennifer Hammond, an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Technology, Sydney.
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Equity-Focused Dual Enrollment Mathematics: Lessons for Improving the Outcomes of Historically Underserved Students
This guide offers lessons learned for designing and implementing the first year of a dual enrollment mathematics course with an equity focus, and was written to address the why, what, and how of equity-focused dual enrollment mathematics planning and initial implementation.
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The Future of California Science: A Story of Leadership, Collaboration, and Legacy
The Next Generation Science Standards emphasize big shifts that empower all students to learn science. This report tells the story of how science education leaders set aside conventional parochial agendas in favor of united action.
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Oracy in the UK for All Students: Current Research
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Alice Stott, Director of Learning and Development at Voice 21.
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Facilitating Secondary ELA English Learners’ Oral Language Development While Engaging in Distance Learning
In this archived webinar, participants received tangible tools and processes for supporting oral interactions and language development of secondary English language arts students in distance learning environments that promote literacy development.
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Supporting Secondary English Learners in the Science Classroom
In this archived webinar, science teachers will learn about ideas and activities for developing an English Learner’s oral language by interacting with peers and engaging in the learning and doing of science and engineering.
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Robust Learning Opportunities for English Learners: Even MORE Important Now
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with George Bunch, Professor of Education at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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English Learners and Civic Life: The Imperative, the Reality, and the Potential
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Joel Westheimer, a University Research Chair in Democracy and Education at the University of Ottawa and education columnist for CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning show.
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English Learners in the United States: A Historical, Policy, and Educational Trajectory
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Kenji Hakuta, Lee Jacks Professor of Education, Emeritus at Stanford University.
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Multilingualism in the United States and Around the World: Current Issues and Tensions
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Ofelia García, Emeritus Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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