2011 CREATE Conference: Educating Middle School English Language Learners for College and Career Readiness

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2011 CREATE Conference

Educating Middle School English Language Learners for College and Career Readiness

November 3-4, 2011
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center
Austin, TX

The 2011 CREATE capstone conference will highlight current research on methods for building literacy skills and oral language development for English language learners across the content areas. CREATE researchers will describe their work on a school-wide intervention targeting 7th grade English language learners in science, social studies, English language arts, and math. Other top scholars will discuss the implications of their research on supporting English language learners' language and literacy development across the curriculum.

This conference is intended for leaders in state and regional agencies, school districts, schools, and colleges of education. The conference supports participants’ learning with essential readings on the central themes of the conference (distributed in advance), keynote presentations, question-and-answer sessions with presenters, and small group interactions with colleagues.

Visit the conference website to register at http://www.cal.org/create/events/index.html