Presented by Dr. José Viana, Senior Education Advisor, Lexia; Rachel Hawthorne, English Learner Senior Specialist, Really Great Reading; Andrea Bitner, ELL Educator, Author, Speaker; Dr. Jennifer Pendergrass-Bennefield, ESOL/Title III Coordinator, Floyd County Schools (GA); and Dr. Lynmara Colón, Director, Student Opportunity and Multilingual Services, Prince William County Schools (VA)
Hosted by Cassandra Wheeler, Director, LETRS State Success, Lexia
Presented by Tanji Reed Marshall, Ph.D., CEO and Principal Consultant, Liaison Educational Partners; and Amanda Alexander, Ph.D., Chief Academic Officer, Scholastic
Presented by Karen Bryan-Chambers, Executive Director of Alumni Engagement and Impact, New Leaders
Presented by Gholdy Muhammad, Ph.D., Professor of Literacy, Language, and Culture, University of Illinois
Moderated by Amanda Alexander, Ph.D., Chief Academic Officer, Scholastic
With the myriad of challenges facing current and future educators, schools cannot overlook the importance of having a workforce strategy in place. How that plan is developed and what it includes was discussed during the edLeader Panel, “Building Leader Capability and Capacity in Workforce Strategy: Addressing Attraction, Retention, and Educator Wellbeing.”
Due to an increase in teacher shortages around the country, the need to hire highly qualified teachers, especially teachers of color, is challenging school district leaders to rethink and revamp their recruitment and retainment efforts.
Presented by Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan, President, Valley Speech Language and Learning Center; and Maya Goodall, Chief Marketing Officer, CORE Learning
Presented by Cicely Lewis, School Librarian, Gwinnett County Public Schools (GA); Morgan Taylor, Instructional Coach, Lawndale High School, Centinela Valley Union High School District (CA); and Ronell Whitaker, ELA and LRC Curriculum Director, Community High School District 218 (IL)
Presented by Sam Deffes, M.Ed., Professional Learning Literacy Advisor, Learning Without Tears; and Yasmin Lynch, M.A., Bilingual National Presenter, Learning Without Tears