Name: Equality, Equity, and Engagement for English Learners
Start: 2018-03-31T09:00:00-0700
End: 2018-03-31T12:00:00-0700

Forty-three Years of Educational Excellence for English Learners & Biliteracy for All

March 28 - 31, 2018

Sacramento Convention Center
Sacramento, California

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Equality, Equity, and Engagement for English Learners

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Equality and diversity that include culture, language, race, national origin, social class, region, religion, gender, and exceptionality are important considerations in working with English learners. The school system must meet these potentially intersecting characteristics and needs of English learners which create the conditions of equity or inequity in the classroom. English learners must equitably experience a sense of belonging, competence, identity development, and meaningfulness in the classroom. Indicators and facilitators of student engagement will be presented.

Speakers

Nivia Gallardo

Corona-Norco USD

José Lalas

Professor, University of Redlands

Jose has been involved in teacher education for 27 years as a faculty in both public and private universities (14 years at CSU Dominguez Hills; currently, 13 years at University of Redlands). Prior to his teacher education experience, Jose has been a junior high school classroom... Read More →