Category: 2009-2010

May 20: Nonie Lesaux

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May 20: Nonie Lesaux (5:00 pm Location TBD) Co-sponsored with CTE

April 13: Mary Schleppegrel

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Professor of Education University of Michigan The Role of a Meta-language in Supporting Academic Language Development   I will report on ongoing professional development work with primary school literacy teachers and with middle- and secondary-school history teachers, where constructs from systemic functional linguistics (SFL) are being used to engage teachers and students in talk about… Read more April 13: Mary Schleppegrel

April 1: Robert Jimenez

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Professor of Education, Peabody College Vanderbilt University Mesoamerican Literacies: Indigenous Writing Systems and Contemporary Possibilities   6:15pm Location To Be Determined pizza and drinks provided   Robert T. Jiménez is currently Professor of Education in Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. He first became interested in the literacy of Latino students as a bilingual education teacher working… Read more April 1: Robert Jimenez

March 10: Dafney Blanca Dabach

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UC Berkeley The Intersection of Institutional Constraints, Teacher Preference, and Repertoire : Implications for Immigrant EL Youth’s Access to Content   4 pm Cubberly 114 pizza and drinks provided   Scholarly work in the field of Immigration Studies has not sufficiently examined teachers’ work with immigrant youth nor the ways in which teachers operate within… Read more March 10: Dafney Blanca Dabach

March 2: Claude Goldenberg

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Professor of Education, Stanford University Preparing teachers to teach English language learners:   Language, Equity and Educational Policy Working Group (LEEP) colloquium 5:30 pm Cubberly 114 Pizza and drinks provided   Claude Goldenberg is Professor Education at Stanford University. He received his A.B. from Princeton University and Ph.D. from UCLA’s Graduate School of Education. Goldenberg… Read more March 2: Claude Goldenberg

November 17: Maria Martiniello

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Associate Research Scientist ETS Center for Validity Research     Language and the Performance of English Language Learners in Math Word Problems   12:30-1:30 Barnum 116 pizza and drinks provided   Guidelines for the assessment of English language learners (ELLs) on academic content tests recommend conducting statistical analysis and empirical studies to investigate the validity… Read more November 17: Maria Martiniello