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2007 CREATE Conference
Academic Language and Content:
A Focus on English Language Learners in the Middle School
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Monday, October 1, 2007
| 8:00am | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 8:30 | Welcome and Overview of CREATE David J. Francis, Director, CREATE |
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TOPIC 1: FRAMEWORKS & PERSPECTIVES |
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| 8:50 | Keynote Supporting English Language Learners' Success with Academic Language: What Teachers Need to Know Guadalupe Valdés, Stanford University |
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| 9:40 | Morning Break | |
| 10:00 | Keynote Assessment, Accountability, and Instruction for ELLs Under NCLB David J. Francis, Texas Institute of Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics, University of Houston |
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| 11:00 | Small Group Break-Out Sessions | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
TOPIC 2: THE QUALITY OF INSTRUCTION |
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| 1:30pm | Keynote Apprenticing the Academic Uses of English: Middle School English Language Learners and their Teachers Aída Walqui, WestED |
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| 2:20 | Afternoon Break | |
| 2:30 | CREATE Research QuEST (Quality English and Science Teaching) Academic Uses of English: A Focus on Science |
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| 3:30 | Small Group Break-Out Sessions | |
| 4:30 | Q&A Session with Day 1 Speakers and Summary of Day’s Content Elfrieda H. Hiebert, University of California, Berkeley |
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| 6:30 | Dinner | |
TOPIC 3: ASSESSMENT OF ACADEMIC LANGUAGE |
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| 7:15 | Keynote Academic English: Interactions between Student and Language Alison Bailey, University of California, Los Angeles |
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
| 8:00am | Breakfast | |
| 8:30 | Overview of Content and Aims Elfrieda H. Hiebert, University of California, Berkeley |
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TOPIC 4: INSTRUCTION—SOCIAL STUDIES |
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| 8:40 | Keynote Learning History, Learning Academic Language Mary Schleppegrell, University of Michigan |
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| 9:30 | Morning Break | |
| 9:40 | CREATE Research Social Studies Instruction Word Generation |
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| 10:45 | Small Group Break-Out Sessions | |
| 11:45 | Box Lunches (Small Groups meet as teams, discussing next steps) | |
TOPIC 5: FORGING NEXT STEPS |
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| 1:15pm | Subtopic: Implementation Effective Classroom Practices—English Learner Development Strategies in Science |
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| 2:30 | Q&A Session with Presenters and Concluding Comments Elfrieda H. Hiebert, University of California, Berkeley David J. Francis, Texas Institute of Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics, University of Houston |
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