Join Us at AERA 2025

Join us at the AERA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, from April 23-27, 2025! Our ELMES colleagues will be presenting these insightful sessions:

Thursday, April 24

Ecologically Just Conditions for Secondary Multilingual English Learners: Course Access, Teacher Collaboration, Curriculum, and Instruction

Time: 1:45 to 3:15 pm

Location: Room 705

Aída Walqui, Martha Castellon, Haiwen Chu, and colleagues will present new findings from studies undertaken by the National Research & Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners. This research explores key ecological factors that influence the quality of education that English learner-classified multilingual students receive in middle and high school and the relationships among those factors.

Book Signing

Time: 4:30 pm

Location: Booth 330/429

Join co-authors Aída Walqui, George Bunch, and Peggy Mueller for the launch of Amplifying the Curriculum (2nd Ed)! This thoroughly updated edition presents a model for how educators can design high-quality, challenging, and supportive learning opportunities for Multilingual Learners.

The book includes chapters by ELMES colleagues Elsa Billings, Haiwen Chu, Shirley Feldman, Leslie Hamburger, Lee Hartman, Mary Schmida, Aída Walqui, Tanya Warren, and Lyn Westergard.

Saturday, April 26

Cycles of Harm and Repair: The Role of Research in Shaping Multilingual Learner Policies and Practices Since Lau v. Nichols

Time: 1:30 to 3:00 pm

Location: Mile High Ballroom 1EF

Molly Faulkner-Bond will be presenting at a session that brings together leading scholars in education policy, language instruction, content teaching, and assessment to reflect on how policies and practices for multilingual learners have evolved over the last five decades—and the role research continues to play in that progress.