Bilingual, Immigrant, and Refugee Education Directors' Meeting
Framing the Challenges and Finding the Solutions
Miami, FL
May 10-12, 2007
 

• Meeting Agenda
  
  Materials from the Meeting 

• Background materials: Center for Applied Linguistics website
  • Searchable Database of Elementary and Secondary School Newcomer Programs in the United States (www.cal.org/newcomerdb/index.jsp)
  • Summary of Data in Directory of Secondary Newcomer programs in the United States, Revised 2000 (www.cal.org/crede/newcsummary.htm)

• Presentation slides by Dr. Aida Walqui
• Background material
  • Paper by Dr. Aida Walqui “Developing Accomplished Instructional Support Specialists: Applying Shulman’s Model to ELL Education”
  • Guidelines by the Center on Instruction “Research-based recommendations for instruction and academic interventions”

• Presentation slides by Dr. Kenji Hakuta
• Background materials: “Similar English learner students, different results: Why do some schools do better?”
  • Report of findings
  • Research brief

• Presentation slides by Dr. Ricki Price-Baugh