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Creating Inclusive Learning Communities For Ell Students: Transforming School Principals' Perspectives, Kathryn Brooks, Susan R. Adams, Trish Morita-Mullaney
Creating Inclusive Learning Communities For Ell Students: Transforming School Principals' Perspectives, Kathryn Brooks, Susan R. Adams, Trish Morita-Mullaney
Kathryn Brooks
School-level administrators are often concerned about tertiary supports for English language learners (ELLs), such as translating signs and school documents or offering Spanish classes for their teachers. Although modeling and learning the heritage language(s) of the ESL population can be helpful, its focus on language differences can limit our considerations of broader systemic challenges that impact the success of ELLs in our schools. This article shares the dialogues that school administrators are having about ELL students and discusses the use of social justice and equity focused professional learning communities as a way to transform this discourse to address the broader …
Suburban Leaders Who Have Made A Difference: Jose Torres, José M. Torres
Suburban Leaders Who Have Made A Difference: Jose Torres, José M. Torres
José M. Torres
This week we are featuring Dr. Jose Torres, the president of Aurora-based Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. Torres was superintendent of Elgin Area School District U-46 from 2008 to 2014 and has served in various leadership roles, including regional superintendent/area instruction officer in Chicago Public Schools, and as the only superintendent on the Federal Equity and Excellence Commission of the United States Department of Education. Torres was one of three educators nationwide to receive the 2014 Dr. Effie H. Jones Humanitarian Award from the AASA, the school superintendents association.
Creating Inclusive Learning Communities For Ell Students: Transforming School Principals' Perspectives, Kathryn Brooks, Susan R. Adams, Trish Morita-Mullaney
Creating Inclusive Learning Communities For Ell Students: Transforming School Principals' Perspectives, Kathryn Brooks, Susan R. Adams, Trish Morita-Mullaney
Susan Adams
School-level administrators are often concerned about tertiary supports for English language learners (ELLs), such as translating signs and school documents or offering Spanish classes for their teachers. Although modeling and learning the heritage language(s) of the ESL population can be helpful, its focus on language differences can limit our considerations of broader systemic challenges that impact the success of ELLs in our schools. This article shares the dialogues that school administrators are having about ELL students and discusses the use of social justice and equity focused professional learning communities as a way to transform this discourse to address the broader …
It Takes A Village: (Un)Learning And (Re)Imagining Teaching Transformation Through Race-Based Equity Work And Collaborative Research Analysis, Susan Adams, Jamie Buffington-Adams
It Takes A Village: (Un)Learning And (Re)Imagining Teaching Transformation Through Race-Based Equity Work And Collaborative Research Analysis, Susan Adams, Jamie Buffington-Adams
Susan Adams
Invited poster presentation at the 9th Annual Robert G. Bringle Civic Engagement Showcase and Symposium, Indianapolis, IN, April 23, 2013.
It Takes A Village: (Un)Learning And (Re)Imagining Teaching Transformation Through Race-Based Equity Work And Collaborative Research Analysis, Susan Adams, Jamie Buffington-Adams
It Takes A Village: (Un)Learning And (Re)Imagining Teaching Transformation Through Race-Based Equity Work And Collaborative Research Analysis, Susan Adams, Jamie Buffington-Adams
Susan Adams
Poster presented at the 24th Annual Joseph Taylor Symposium, Indianapolis, IN, February 27, 2013.
Creating Conditions For Teacher Transformation For Equitable Classrooms, Susan Adams, Kathryn Brooks
Creating Conditions For Teacher Transformation For Equitable Classrooms, Susan Adams, Kathryn Brooks
Susan Adams
Presentation at the 65th Annual ATE-I Teacher Education Conference, Nashville, IN, October 20-22, 2012.
Inside Job: Finding Respite, Release, (Un)Learning And (Re)Imagining Teacher Transformation Through Race-Based Equity Work, Susan Adams, Jamie Buffington-Adams
Inside Job: Finding Respite, Release, (Un)Learning And (Re)Imagining Teacher Transformation Through Race-Based Equity Work, Susan Adams, Jamie Buffington-Adams
Susan Adams
Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH, October 14-15, 2011.
Teaching Toward Educational Equity: Creating Critical Collegial Communities That Sustain Teacher Transformation And Equitable Outcomes For Students, Susan Adams
Susan Adams
Workshop and panel at the Indiana Urban Schools Association Conference, June 15, 2011.
Whiten Up! Examining The Impact Of White Esl Teachers’ Race, Privilege And Positionality On Immigrant Students In School, Susan Adams
Susan Adams
Paper presented at the 2011 National Association of Bilingual Educators Conference, New Orleans, LA, February 16-19, 2011.
Whiten Up! Examining Our Race, Privilege And Positionality In School, Susan Adams, Trish Mullaney
Whiten Up! Examining Our Race, Privilege And Positionality In School, Susan Adams, Trish Mullaney
Susan Adams
Workshop and paper presented at the Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (INTESOL) Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, November 13, 2010.
We Don’T Want To Go Around Unwritten: Understanding Our Students Through Meaningful And Culturally Welcoming Writing Assignments, Susan Adams
Susan Adams
Workshop presented at the Indiana Teachers of Writing Annual Conference, October 2009.
We Don’T Want To Go Around Unwritten: Understanding Our Students Through Meaningful And Culturally Welcoming Writing Assignments, Susan Adams
Susan Adams
Presentation at the National Writing Project Urban Sites Network Conference, Louisville, KY, April 2009.
Learning From Each Other: Critical Conversations To Promote Equity For Bilingual Students, Susan Adams, Kathryn Brooks, Shelly Furuness
Learning From Each Other: Critical Conversations To Promote Equity For Bilingual Students, Susan Adams, Kathryn Brooks, Shelly Furuness
Susan Adams
Presentation at the National Association of Bilingual Educators Conference, Austin, TX, February 2009.