Presented by Dr. José Viana, Senior Education Advisor, Lexia Learning; Tan Huynh, Teacher, Author, Podcaster, and Consultant, KIS International School (Cambodia); Beth Skelton, Educational Consultant, Educational Consultants, LLC; and Breanna Guzman, Senior Language Product Specialist, Lexia Learning
Moderated by Cassandra Wheeler, Director of Lexia LETRS® State Success, Lexia Learning
Presented by Dr. José Viana, Senior Education Advisor, Lexia Learning; Breanna Guzman, Senior Language Product Specialist, Lexia Learning; Dr. Linda Cavazos, Executive Director, ELLAS Consulting (English Learner Leadership Advocacy Support); and Martha Hernandez, Executive Director, Californians Together
Moderated by Cassandra Wheeler, Director of Lexia LETRS® State Success, Lexia Learning
Presented by Denise Soler Cox, Activist Filmmaker, Podcaster, Speaker, and Author
Moderated by Cassandra Wheeler, Director of Lexia LETRS® State Success, Lexia Learning
Presented by Dr. Lizzy Cashiola, Associate Director of Regional Research, Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC), Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research; Andrea Bitner, ELL Educator, Author, and Speaker, Interboro School District (PA); Dr. José Viana, Senior Education Advisor, Lexia Learning; and Breanna Guzman, Senior Language Product Specialist, Lexia Learning
Moderated by Cassandra Wheeler, Director of Lexia LETRS® State Success, Lexia Learning
Presented by Dr. Young-Suk Kim, Professor and Senior Associate Dean, School of Education, University of California, Irvine; Dr. Gigi Luk, Associate Professor, Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music, McGill University; Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan, President, Valley Speech Language and Learning Center; and Dr. Raj Chattergoon, Director of Efficacy Research, Lexia Learning
Moderated by Cassandra Wheeler, Director of Lexia LETRS® State Success, Lexia Learning
Presented by Dr. Claude Goldenberg, Nomellini-Olivier Professor of Education, Emeritus, Stanford University; and Maya Goodall, Senior Director of Emergent Bilingual Curriculum, Lexia Learning
Building a multilevel program to support emergent bilingual students is an effort that no one educator can take on alone. During the edLeader Panel, “Best Practices to Support Emergent Bilingual Students This School Year—and Beyond,” Dr. José Viana, Senior Education Advisor at Lexia Learning and the former Director of the Office of English Language Acquisition, hosted a panel of experts who explained how to build inclusive and asset-based learning environments at the national, state, district, and school levels.
Presented by Kelly Forbes, President of the Oklahoma Association for Bilingual Education; Lynmara Colón, Ph.D., Director of Student Opportunity and Multilingual Services, Prince William County Public Schools (VA); Dr. Karen Henery, Director for ESOL/Multilingual Services, Little Rock School District (AR); and Jennifer Hernandez, Emergent Bilingual Solution Account Executive, Lexia Learning
Presented by Dr. Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Graduate Education, Associate Professor of Special Education, Peabody College
Presented by Maya Goodall, Senior Director of Emergent Bilingual Curriculum, Lexia Learning