About This Site

National Advisory Panel | Affiliation

"Teaching Diverse Learners" was developed as part of the National Leadership Area for the 2000-2005 Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory (LAB), a program of The Education Alliance at Brown University.  The goal of this site is to help teachers work effectively and equitably with English language learners (ELLs) by providing access to research-based information, strategies, and resources for addressing the concerns of ELLs in the classroom and beyond.

ELLs -- also referred to as bilingual, culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD), language minority, and Limited English Proficient (LEP) students -- are speakers of languages and dialects other than English and members of ethno-linguistic minority cultures and communities. Many thousands of ELLs continue to be denied opportunities for an excellent and equitable education.

This Web site addresses educators of culturally and linguistically diverse learners, invites the perspectives of teachers and language minority learners, and provides research-based practices at both the classroom and systemic level that promote high achievement for linguistically diverse students.

Practices, strategies, and resources will be highlighted for the areas of:

• Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT)
• General Education Classrooms
• Bilingual/ESL Classrooms
• Special Education
• Assessment

In addition, we provide access to publications, educational materials, and the work of national partners and experts in the field.

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National Advisory Panel

Maria Estela Brisk - Lynch School of Education, Boston College
Joyce L. Epstein - Director, Center in School Family, and
    Community Partnerships, Johns Hopkins University
Sandra Fradd - Professor, University of Florida
Kris Gutierrez - Professor, Graduate School of Education and
    Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Gloria Ladson-Billings - Professor, School of Education,
    University of Wisconsin
Karla Lewis - Research Specialist, Assessment, Accountability,
    and Standards, SERVE
Annette Lopez de Mendez - Director, Educational Research
    Center, Universidad de Puerto Rico
Delia Pompa - Executive Director, National Association for
    Bilingual Education
Warren Simmons - Executive Director, The Annenberg Institute
    for School Reform at Brown University
Dean Stecker - ESOL Program Planner, School District of Palm
    Beach County
Adam Urbanski - President, Rochester Teachers Association
Charles V. Willie - The Charles W. Eliot Professor of Education
    Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Lily Wong Fillmore - Professor, Graduate School of Education,
    University of California, Berkeley

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Affiliation

This website is based on work sponsored wholly or in part by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES - formerly, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI)), U.S. Department of Education, under contract numbers RJ96006401 and ED-01-CO-0010. The content of this site does not necessarily reflect the views of IES, the Department of Education, or any other agency of the U.S. Government.

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