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The Continuing Educator
Emergent bilingual student agency, with Angela Johnson, Teresa Krastel, and Adam Withycombe
November 9, 2021
Description
Our education system had been failing our emergent bilingual students since long before the pandemic. How can teachers better serve the emergent bilingual students coming back to the classroom and build their agency as they become proficient? In this discussion, we cover how to recognize the assets emergent bilingual students bring with them, how to get back into the groove of academic language, and how to make room for both language and communication with English language learners. Our guests are three experts from NWEA (who all happen to be emergent bilingual speakers): Teresa Krastel (Spanish solutions lead), Angela Johnson (research scientist), and Adam Withycombe (content design and development).
Topics: Multilingual learners
Products: Professional Learning
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