Moving Emergent Bilingual Students to the Center: Transforming Leadership Preparation in a District-University Partnership

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium presents findings from research of an unusually authentic district-university partnership for leadership preparation. The partnership involved co-design and co-teaching across the two institutions as well as subsidized tuition for the candidates. The focus of this presentation is one specific key innovation: that the partnership was grounded in nested practitioner research to improve the district’s pressing problem of practice – disproportionate outcomes for long term ELLs, more appropriately called emergent bilinguals (EBs). Findings point to the power of moving EBs to the center, specifically in validating/promoting generation of knowledge everyone needs to lead improvement of and beyond EBs. This symposium’s power lies in the granularity of the graduates’ stories, showing how change came about in each adult learner’s case.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Leadership for Social Justice

Chair

• Nell Scharff Panero, Hunter College

Papers

• Practitioner Research for Emergent Bilinguals: The Core Driver in a University-District Partnership for Leadership Preparation - Jennifer Goldstein, California State University - Fullerton

• Front Matter for Next Three Papers - Nell Scharff Panero, Hunter College

• Content to Courageous - Christina Maguire, Anaheim Union High School District

• Lifting the Burden of Supporting "Those Kids" off My Shoulders - Diana Fujimoto, Anaheim Union High School District

• Music Teachers Leading the Charge to Develop Academic Language for English Language Learners and Beyond - Brian Belski, Anaheim Union High School District

Discussants

• Maritza Lozano, California State University - Fullerton

• Manuel Colon, Anaheim Union High School District