NAESPA Offers Two Free Professional Development Resources

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NAESPA Offers Two Free Professional Development Resources

Webinar: Serving English Learners in a Distance Learning Environment

The National Association of ESEA of State Program Administrators (NAESPA)—in collaboration with TransACT Communications and Brustein & Manasevit—will present a free-to-view webinar on May 15th at 1:00 pm EDT.

The webinar will feature Julia Martin (Legislative Director for Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC) and David Holbrook (Executive Director for National Association of English Learner Program Administrators—NAELPA and Executive Director of Federal Programs and State Relationships for TransACT). Also featured in the webinar will be a panel discussion with:

Roberta Miceli—Center for Applied Linguistics (CAP)
Faridah Pawan—Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Jobi Lawrence—ELPA21 (an EL Assessment Consortium)
Samuel Aguirre—WIDA (an EL Assessment Consortium)
Louise Marks—National Association of ESEA of State Program Administrators (NAESPA)
Carol Salva—National Association of English Learner Program Administrators (NAELPA)
Margarita Pinkos—National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE)

Please see this flyer for details.

For questions, please contact our Member Services Team at 800-256-6452.

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Our goal, now as always, is to support the essential work of educators at every level and to collaborate with you to promote equity and student success. We wish everyone good health and we look forward to bringing people together again (when it is safe) at the next National ESEA Conference to explore the theme "Educating for Tomorrow".

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