Results from the Los Angeles Open Space Process

Important:  Please Read about the Open Spaces Proceedings

The following documents are the proceedings produced on March 7, 2011 at the National Conversation on EL Education in Los Angeles, California. Throughout the day, participants were involved in a series of working group conversations as part of the Open Space Process. Participants were provided with a uniform template and, as part of the Open Space Process, each working group identified a scribe to complete the template and transfer the information to an electronic format. The individual reports you will see were produced solely by the scribe for each group and have not been modified in any way; they have not been reviewed for errors or correctness (including, but not limited to, spelling, grammar, punctuation, and/or content). These reports reflect the scribe’s interpretation of events, which may or may not have been reviewed and/or accepted by the members of the working group. In addition, the contents of these proceedings do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Federal Government (including the US Department of Education and other offices participating in the National Conversations on EL Education), nor does the mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. government.

• ELs and Common Core Standards in Math
• Non-Standard Variety English Learners
• Performance Based Assessments to Engage ELs and Parents
• REL of Language Standards-Assessment and Content Standards-Assessments
• Students who have Disabilities and EL designation
• University-Schools Partnerships
• Urban vs Rural ELs
• Educating ELs as a Civil Rights Issue #2
• EL Program as a Civil Rights Issue
• Improve the status of teachers in the nation
• Integrating Language Skills as opposed to teaching them seperately
• Leadership for an EL Initiative
• ELs and Technology
• Parent Engagement
• High Quality Professional Development for all Practitioners
• Arizona's Structured English Immersion Model
• Preparing Students to Compete in the 21st Century Global Economy: Dual Immersion/Multiple Language Programs
• Lessons from the past and remedies for the future/ Online communities of practice
• SOS: Arizona is Sinking
• Using primary language within an English-medium classroom

Return to the Los Angeles National Conversations on English Learner Education page.

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^{Updated March 2011}