Advocating for English Learners: A Guide For Educators

Diane Staehr Fenner

ISBN 10: 1452257698 / ISBN 13: 9781452257693

Edité par Corwin 2013-09-18, 2013

N° de réf. du vendeur 6666-GRD-9781452257693

Synopsis :

Embrace the future by ensuring English Learners have a voice in school.

English Learners (Els) are the fastest-growing segment of the K–12 population. Therefore, educators must provide a voice

À propos de l?auteur: Diane Staehr Fenner, PhD, is the president of SupportEd (SupportEd.com), a woman-owned small business located in the Washington, DC, metro area that she founded in 2011. SupportEd is dedicated to empowering multilingual learners and their educators. Dr. Staehr Fenner leads her team to provide ML professional development, coaching, technical assistance, and curriculum and assessment support to school districts, states, organizations, and the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to forming SupportEd, Dr. Staehr Fenner was an English language development (ELD) teacher, dual language assessment teacher, and ELD assessment specialist in Fairfax County Public Schools, VA. She speaks German and Spanish and has taught in Berlin, Germany, and Veracruz, Mexico. Dr. Staehr Fenner grew up on a dairy farm in central New York and is a proud first- generation college graduate. She has written eight books on ML education (and counting), including coauthoring Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity and authoring Advocating for English Learners: A Guide for Educators. She is a frequent keynote speaker on ML education at conferences across North America. She earned her PhD in Multilingual/Multicultural Education at George Mason University
and her MAT in TESOL at the School for International Training. You can connect with her by email at Diane@SupportEd.com or on Twitter at @DStaehrFenner.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Advocating for English Learners: A Guide For...
Éditeur : Corwin 2013-09-18
Date d'édition : 2013
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : New