CD Webinar 3: How Do You Know Your ELA, SLA, and Math Materials are Working for Multilingual Learners?
Event Details
ELSF's Guidelines have long served as the research-based foundation and vision for instructional materials that are inclusive of multilingual learners. Now, that vision has a concrete expression: Product Features, observable and measurable elements for product teams that outline what to build, what to track, and what to put on the roadmap. This session introduces a concrete way to define quality for multilingual learners across ELA, SLA, and math materials. Attendees will see specific elements within a curriculum that can be pointed out, evaluated, and acted upon. The session walks through a few of these elements in practice. It covers what strong implementation looks like and where materials commonly miss the mark.
OBJECTIVES
- See what it looks like when multilingual learner quality standards become concrete, observable elements inside ELA, SLA, and math materials
- Walk through a few of these elements in practice, including what strong implementation looks like and where materials commonly fall short
- Leave with questions worth asking about how your own ELA, SLA, and math materials measure up
AUDIENCE
- Chiefs and VPs of Product or Academics at publishers who set the direction for ELA, SLA, and math curricula
- Content Developers, Editorial Directors, and Product Directors shaping the instructional design and content standards those materials are built on
Schedule
Speakers
Facilitators & Guest Speakers
Celine Liu
Celine Liu (she/ella/她) is the Multilingual Learner Instructional Specialist, Mathematics at ELSF. She leads the delivery of ELSF math content services, helping our clients solve problems in the design and implementation of high-quality instructional materials and strong instructional systems that lead to higher-quality outcomes for multilingual learners. Celine has been a math educator and leader for 25 years, from high school math teacher in general and special education classrooms to district and county administrator. She has led various formal and informal STEMM (STEM + Making) educator communities in California and New Jersey and was most recently Director of Teaching, Learning, and Educational Equity in the San Francisco Bay Area. She leverages her experience as a social worker and community organizer in all aspects of her work to transform public education.
Rebecca Castellanos
Rossana Camacho
Samantha Aponte-Atkins
Samantha Aponte-Atkins (she/her/ella) is the Instructional Specialist, ELA at ELSF. In this role, she facilitates and develops literacy-focused content services, leveraging her background as a literacy specialist, school leader, and curriculum developer, to ensure that our partners have the tools and training needed to best support multilingual learners.
Brandy Delgado
Brandy Delgado is the Senior Director, Business Development at ELSF, where she drives sustainable revenue generation and strategy and oversees communications to strengthen partnerships that advance equity in education. She brings more than 20 years of global experience building multi-million-dollar pipelines and leading teams at mission-driven organizations, including RTI International, DT Global, and Landesa.
Nathasha Soon
Nathasha Soon is the Senior Manager, Partnerships at ELSF. In her role, she helps support the Senior Director in fostering and establishing partnerships with content developers (curriculum publishers), states and districts, and other professional learning organizations in order to advance ELSF's mission.