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The U.S. Department of Education’s (ED’s) Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) is hosting a webinar on
Thursday, April 4, 2024, at 3:00 PM ET on the need for increased support for ELs after the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar will summarize the existing documented impacts of COVID-19 on ELs and focus on ways in which local educational agencies (LEAs)
and State educational agencies (SEAs) can provide enhanced support for ELs post-pandemic.
Webinar attendees will reflect on how their individual LEAs and SEAs experienced these impacts with their own ELs and will discuss evidence-based practices that could increase language
development and academic achievement for ELs in a post-pandemic educational climate.
Our panel includes:
• Amaya Garcia, Director of PreK–12 Research and Practice with the Education Policy Program
at New America
• Dr. Megan Hopkins, Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego; Co-Advisor
to the EL Collaborative of the Council of Chief State School Officers
• Dr. Karen Thompson, Associate Professor, Oregon State University
• Dr. Kelsey Krausen, Director of Strategic Resource Allocation and Systems Planning, WestEd
• Samuel Klein,
Supervisor of The Office of English Learners, Arlington Public Schools in Virginia
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