#CWPLeader December
The Teacher Consultants we celebrate in December are K-12 educators who have dedicated much of their career to teaching English Learners across California’s varied EL/ELL contexts: newcomer, dual immersion, bilingual, EL/ELD, Long Term English Learner, and accelerated programs.
These educators build their instruction on the academic, linguistic, and writing potential of their students. They celebrate the heritage languages, “funds of knowledge,” and cultural wealth their students bring to their learning and writing. They explicitly teach academic language and analytical writing to prepare their students for college, career, and community readiness. As Teacher Consultants, they create opportunities for their colleagues to join them in school and Writing Project communities that focus on enacting what Jim Cummins reminds us is necessary for English Learners.
"The difficult times in which we live demand that our classrooms nurture thinking and creative problem-solving abilities as well as sensitivity to the perspectives of those from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Only in these kinds of instructional spaces will learning, language, and academic abilities truly develop. Only in classroom contexts where ELL students’ brainpower is fully acknowledged and activated will they catch up rapidly to their peers in academic performance." (Jim Cummins)
Congratulations and thank you for all you do for students, your colleagues, and your Writing Project.
To learn more about each of these outstanding educators and Teacher Consultants, click on their pictures, which are the links to their profiles.
These educators build their instruction on the academic, linguistic, and writing potential of their students. They celebrate the heritage languages, “funds of knowledge,” and cultural wealth their students bring to their learning and writing. They explicitly teach academic language and analytical writing to prepare their students for college, career, and community readiness. As Teacher Consultants, they create opportunities for their colleagues to join them in school and Writing Project communities that focus on enacting what Jim Cummins reminds us is necessary for English Learners.
"The difficult times in which we live demand that our classrooms nurture thinking and creative problem-solving abilities as well as sensitivity to the perspectives of those from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Only in these kinds of instructional spaces will learning, language, and academic abilities truly develop. Only in classroom contexts where ELL students’ brainpower is fully acknowledged and activated will they catch up rapidly to their peers in academic performance." (Jim Cummins)
Congratulations and thank you for all you do for students, your colleagues, and your Writing Project.
To learn more about each of these outstanding educators and Teacher Consultants, click on their pictures, which are the links to their profiles.