Future-Ready Emergent Bilingual Education: 3 Factors to Improve Teacher and Student Support

Presented by Kristie Shelley, M.Ed., Senior Director of Emergent Bilingual Curriculum, Lexia® Learning; and Cynthia Peng, MA TESOL, Manager of Educational Content for Lexia® English Language Development, Lexia® Learning

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Students learning English have always faced an uphill battle. Since the pandemic, it has been made more evident than ever that these students and their teachers need more support to establish continuity of learning. To become fully bilingual, these students need more speaking practice, following learning-science-proven methods. Educators need curriculum and assessment tools that integrate into their daily instruction both in-person and online, without overloading teachers’ already full plates.

In this edWebinar, emergent bilingual curriculum experts Kristie Shelley and Cynthia Peng explore how to make up for lost instructional time, no matter where learning takes place. This can be done by ensuring the curriculum is culturally sustaining and based in learning science, using the most effective resources available, and developing a strong community connection to ensure well-rounded student support.

Watch to learn how you can help support emergent bilingual students in any learning environment. This recorded edWebinar is of interest to teachers and school and district leaders of the kindergarten through elementary grades.

Your CE certificate for this edWebinar will include ESL/ELL as a category for your professional learning.

About the Presenters

Kristie Shelley, M.Ed. is the senior director of emergent bilingual curriculum at Lexia Learning. She began her education career in the classroom teaching emergent bilingual students. Throughout the past two decades, she has served as an educational consultant training teachers all over the country, as a co-founder of an educational company that focused solely on emergent bilinguals, and now as the content lead for language programs at Lexia Learning. Kristie has dedicated herself to developing products and programs that honor each child’s learning journey.

Cynthia Peng, MA TESOL is the manager of educational content for Lexia English Language Development. She has taught emergent bilinguals both abroad and in the U.S. For the past 10 years, she has worked at the intersection of curriculum development and edtech, first as a lead curriculum developer for an open-source curriculum, then as an English language acquisition subject matter expert for an edtech startup that creates AI-operated, open-source resource libraries. A multilingual learner herself, Cynthia finds joy in helping learners become confidently bilingual or multilingual.

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Lexia® Learning, a Cambium® company, is one of the most impactful and highly respected reading-technology companies in the world. Founded over 35 years ago, Lexia’s research-proven programs help educators deliver personalized reading and language instruction for millions of K–12 students across the world.