Margarita Espino Calderon - Promises Fulfilled: A Leaders Guide for Supporting English Learners

MARGARITA ESPINO CALDERN
SHAWN SLAKK
with HECTOR MONTENEGRO

Copyright 2017 by Solution Tree Press

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We would like to thank Douglas Rife, president and publisher of Solution Tree Press, for his guidance with this book, which the field had been asking us to publish! We are most appreciative of the editorial staff and their prompt and valuable responses. Moreover, Claudia Wheatley, content specialist and author liaison, has been an inspiration to us as we set our professional development experiences into writing.

Additionally, we owe many principals and district administrators for the opportunities they gave us to test the concepts and components described in this book. We are particularly indebted to Judy Radford, ESL Professional Development Coordinator, Virginia State Department of Education; Heidi Ramirez, Chief Academic Officer, and Kori Hamner, Director of Support and Professional Development, from Shelby County Schools, Tennessee; and Andrs Enriquez from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for encouraging and funding the empirical research on ExC-ELL.

We would also like to thank our families and colleagues who make it possible for us to do the work we do and help to make it enjoyable.

Solution Tree Press would like to thank the following reviewers:

Zhaneta Liti

English Language Coordinator, East

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Malden, Massachusetts

Richard Long

Executive Director

Learning First Alliance

Washington, DC

Amy Swick

Continuous School Improvement Coordinator of ELL/Bilingual Programs

Appleton Area School District

Appleton, Wisconsin

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Margarita Espino Caldern, PhD, is professor emerita and senior research scientist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. She has conducted research, training, and curriculum development for teaching language, reading comprehension, and content knowledge to K12 English learners. Her work has focused on effective instructional processes, two-way and dual-language programs, teacher learning communities, and professional development for schools with language minority populations and striving adolescent readers. Dr. Calderns research has been supported by the New York Carnegie Corporation Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Labor, National Institutes of Health, and the Texas Education Agency.

A native of Jurez, Mexico, Dr. Caldern is a recognized expert in education with more than one hundred publications to her credit. She is a respected member of several panels and national committees, and she has been welcomed internationally as a visiting lecturer. Dr. Caldern has created and directed her own international institutes for administrators, teachers, and parents. She has experience as a classroom teacher, bilingual program director, professional development coordinator, professor of educational leadership graduate programs, and bilingual teacher supervisor.

Dr. Caldern earned a doctorate in multicultural education, applied linguistics, and organizational development through a joint doctorate program at Claremont Graduate University and San Diego State University.

Shawn Slakk, M.A., M.S.A., is the Vice President of Operations and Senior Consultant for Margarita Caldern & Associates (MC&A). With MC&A, he facilitates training for teachers and administrators. He also presents at ExC-ELL (Expediting Comprehension for English Language Learners) Institutes nationwide and at local, state, and national conferences. He works with the team to create and pilot new professional development courses and assist schools, districts, and states with ExC-ELL implementation and support.

Previously, he served as the Rethinking Equity and Teaching for English Language Learners (RETELL) Coordinator for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. He and his team developed graduate-level sheltered English instruction endorsement courses for classroom teachers and administrators.

While in Nevada, and later in North Carolina, Shawn taught ESL, participated in the North Carolina Principal Fellows Program, served as an elementary and middle school administrator, and served as a district level SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) coach. With degrees and certifications in English Education, Spanish Education, TESOL, and School Administration, he has taught Kuniversity ESL, Spanish, and K3 conversational Japanese. His doctoral work is in professional development for English learners.

Along with ExC-ELL, RETELL, and SIOP, Shawn is a WIDA certified trainer, which provides him with the skills to help shape curriculum and develop new professional development materials and specialized sessions for sustaining educator learning.

Hector Montenegro, EdD, president and CEO of Montenegro Consulting Group, is an associate for Margarita Caldern & Associates. He is an internationally recognized keynote and motivational speaker, appearing at conferences, conventions, universities, schools, and special events around the world. He provides training on instructional strategies for English learners and leadership development for administrators and instructional coaches, and he specializes in the teacher coaching process through the use of technology, video recording, web-based platforms, and observation protocols. Dr. Montenegro is also a senior district advisor for the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and works with districts on systemic implementation of social and emotional learning.