Teaching for our Times: Centering Equity and Cultural Wealth - 2022 issue
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Advancing Equity through ELL Program Reform: An Introduction to the Issue from the Editorial Board
by Jeff Ellenbird, Lloyd Sheldon Johnson, Maria Puente, Alison Ruch, Lee Santos Silva and Jennifer Valdez
“This reform - along with the inequities it attempts to dismantle as well as the inequities that still need dismantling – is ultimately linked to the world and events around us that are rooted in a history of racial, linguistic and other injustices.”
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Sharing Our Stories: Multiple Perspectives on Leading the Comprehensive ELL Program Reform
by Jeff Ellenbird, Lindsay Naggie, Alan Shute and Maria Puente
“The process of doing research and sharing findings with colleagues liberated faculty from the constraints of the existing program curricula and levels, opening up many possibilities.”
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Farewell to Monolingualism, Hello to Translingual Orientation
by Naoko Akai-Dennis
“When their Englishes are constantly gazed at and policed so that they are easy for teachers’ ears to catch, their linguistic and cultural identities are on the verge of erasure.”
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From Remediation to Imagination: The Case for Humanizing Pedagogies in the Community College Classroom
by Cynthia Cummings
“Creating a learning environment that incorporates student cultural wealth into the curriculum heightens student interest and helps them move forward by measuring outcomes by what has been achieved rather than against a norm referenced test…”
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A Culturally Responsive Approach to Success Coaching for Asian American Students in English Language Learner Courses
by Zaida Ismatul Oliva, Christina Lambert and Cherry Lim
“For our ELL students, success coaching means so much more than just being advised on the next course/s to take or getting help with coursework. It also means finding…ways to learn how to navigate, not just life as a college student, but life itself.””
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Applying Critical Race Theory and Building Community to Bridge the Disciplinary Divide Between ELL and ENG
by Naoko Akai-Dennis, Jennifer Burke Grehan, Ashley Paul and Jennifer Valdez
“In creating a community of learners and moving within college resources and events, we are empowering our students to step out of their marginalized corner and into the college community, prepared to move within the system that challenges others who are less familiar or informed.”
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Breaking down Borders in Collaboratively Designing and Teaching an Integrated ELL/SOC Learning Community
by Jeff Ellenbird and Aurora Bautista
“When a concept, a text, or an experience is presented and analyzed through different disciplinary perspectives, it can blur the borders between the two disciplines so that the learning becomes intertwined and iterative. That learning is the magic of a learning community cluster that we want students to experience.”
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The Search for a New Identity
A multimedia project by Lindsay Naggie featuring voices of faculty, staff and administrators from the ELL Program Reform with commentary by Shawna Shapiro (2011) author of “Stuck in the Remedial Rut”.
“The participants were questioning not only themselves and their role, but also how other forces at work contributed to student experience...That willingness to critically examine all aspects of student experience from intake to graduation led to deep conversations and deeper partnerships.”