Creating High-Quality Learning Opportunities for Multilingual Learners
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- Oct 22
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Learn how K–12 educators can design high-quality, challenging, and supportive learning opportunities for Multilingual Learners.
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2025
Time: 2–3 p.m. ET | 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT
The first edition of the book Amplifying the Curriculum, published by Teachers College Press in association with WestEd, offered an ambitious model for educators to design tasks, lessons, and units of study that invite English Learners and other students in need of language and literacy support to engage in meaningful and intellectually engaging learning.
Now expanded and revised to include four new chapters, the updated second edition brings the model into the present to continue to support K–12 educators in designing high-quality, challenging, and supportive learning opportunities for Multilingual Learners.
Join the book editors, Aída Walqui, George C. Bunch, and Peggy Mueller, for a free webinar that looks at the book’s key contributions and explores the central argument that instruction should amplify—rather than simplify—expectations, concepts, texts, and learning tasks.
This webinar is hosted by Teachers College Press and WestEd.
Who Should Attend
Teacher educators
Elementary and secondary teachers (PK–12)
Curriculum coordinators
Professional developers
School administrators
Researchers
All others who work with Multilingual Learners
Featured Speakers
Aída Walqui
Walqui directs the National Research and Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners housed at WestEd. Walqui is a nationally and internationally known researcher and practitioner whose work addresses the development of extensive and generative educator expertise in intercultural, multilingual settings.
George C. Bunch
Bunch is a professor and former chair of education at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Peggy Mueller Mueller is a lifelong educator, teacher educator, curriculum developer, and education policy analyst.
Moderator
Magaly Lavadenz
Lavadenz is the Leavey Presidential Chair in Ethics and Moral Leadership and founding Executive Director of the Center for Equity for English Learners and Co-Director of Bilingual/Bicultural Education in the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University. Her research addresses the intersections and impact of policies and practices for Multilingual/Multicultural Learners, their teachers, and school leaders.
This webinar sponsored by the National Research & Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners at WestEd, Teachers College Press, and Loyola Marymount University.
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2025
Time: 2–3 p.m. ET | 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT
