Colorín Colorado: Facebook Live Series

Colorín Colorado is pleased to nowadays a serial of Facebook Live events focused on advocacy for English Language Learners (ELLs). The video archives from the events appear below. This series was made possible with the generous support from the National Teaching Clan. For boosted ideas on advocating for ELLs, accept a look at the NEA guide, All In! How Educators Can Advocate for ELLs.

Educators and Administrators

Why Building Relationships with ELLs Matters

Anne Marie Foerster Luu is a veteran ESOL teacher and was named TESOL's 2013 National Instructor of the Twelvemonth. In this interview, she talks about the importance of building relationships with ELLs, immigrant students, and their families, equally well as strategies for addressing complex topics in the classroom.

Social-Emotional Support for Immigrant Students

Lori Dodson is an elementary ESOL teacher. In this interview, she discusses the social-emotional needs of immigrant students, as well her own journey from classroom teacher to an agile advocate for her students. She also offers ideas for connecting students' experiences to classroom curriculum.

Collaborating on Behalf of ELLs

Katy Padilla is an ESOL Specialist at an unproblematic school created as a professional learning community. In this interview, Katy shares lessons learned from her all-encompassing experience collaborating with colleagues, as well as best practices and tips for constructive collaboration and advocacy on behalf ELLs.

What does it experience like to be an ELL?

Sean Pang is a loftier school English instructor, and he was named the 2017 Washington Post Teacher of the Year. He is also a former English language learner. In this interview, he talks most coming to this country at the historic period of vi, his memories of what it was similar to be an ELL, and the ways his experiences shape his teaching today.

Supporting ELLs and Immigrant Students: A Principal's Perspective

Nathaniel Provencio is an award-winning primary. In this interview, Nathaniel talks nearly his ain struggles with schoolhouse, the importance of building relationships amongst students, families, and staff, and shares some of his favorite ideas for engagement and professional development.

Researchers and Specialists

Advocating for ELLs: An Overview

Dr. Diane Staehr Fenner is an adept in the area of ELL education and a old ESOL teacher. In this interview, she shares strategies that teachers and administrators can use to abet for ELLs and increase the level of collaboration happening in their environment.

How Mainstream Teachers Can Support ELLs

Sarah C.K. Moore is Program Manager of PreK-12 English language Learner Teaching at the Heart for Applied Linguistics (CAL). In this interview, she provides an update on contempo research findings related to ELLs and offers strategies and resources that all teachers can apply in their instruction of ELLs.

Special Pedagogy and ELLs

Cristina Sánchez-López is a bilingual instruction expert with all-encompassing experience delivering professional evolution focused on special didactics, serving dually-identified students, and culturally responsive RTI/MTSS. In this interview, she answers a number of questions from our audience about these topics.

Authors

Hena Khan: Writing for Kids and Teens from an American Muslim Perspective

Hena Khan is a Pakistani-American author for children and young adults. In this interview, she talks well-nigh her love of reading as a child, the absence of characters similar her in the books she read, and her books. She also shares what she is hearing from students nearly growing upwards as a young American Muslim today.