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English Learners in the 8th grade ELA class: The Role of Pedagogical Materials - Textbooks play a significant role in the educational opportunities teachers offer their students to develop. In the case of English Learners, most curriculum is based on old fashioned, obsolete ideas of how students learn and the required pre-requisites for that learning.

Quality and Equitable Education for our English Learners: Rethinking Ecologically the Education We Offer Them - Despite decades of well-intentioned efforts to educationally build the immense resources and potential English Learners take to school individually and communally, we are still far from accomplishing what is desirable and possible. In this presentation I will share the ecological framework that drives my work.

Trisha DiFazio is an education consultant, speaker and author of Social-Emotional Learning Starts with Us: Empowering Teachers to Support Students. She is a former classroom teacher and adjunct professor in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California (USC). Ms.

Aída Walqui directs the IES-funded National Research and Development Center for Improving the Education of English Learners in Secondary Schools housed at WestEd where she started one of its signature programs, the Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) initiative. QTEL focuses on the development of educator expertise to support the development of elementary and secondary English Learners’ conceptual, analytic, and language practices in disciplinary subject matter areas.