On behalf of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Office of Safe and Supportive Schools, the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE) invites you to join our next webinar— Strategies for Supporting Newcomer Students’ Academic Success.
Newcomer students are students who have arrived in the United States within the last three years and are still learning English (Newcomer Toolkit, 2023). Newcomer students bring a myriad of assets to the school community, including a desire to learn and engage. They also need educators and other school personnel to work with them to learn English and acclimate to their new school community
Building off previous webinars on welcoming and providing social, emotional, and behavioral supports for newcomer students, this webinar explored various approaches to supporting newcomer students’ academic success. Our context-setting speaker shared evidence-based principles of what educators can do to support newcomer students’ learning from an asset-based approach. Our panelists shared the strategies they are using and discuss the impact of their efforts and lessons learned. We ended the webinar with the speaker and panelists responding to several questions posed by the audience.
Speakers & Panelists
Moderator: Greta Colombi, Director, NCSSLE
- Ayman Abdelgadir, Volunteer & Mentor Coordinator, African Community Education (ACE), MA
- Dr. Verónica Boix-Mansilla, PhD, Principal Investigator, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Dr. Brenda Calderon, PdD, Chief of Staff, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education
- Mayra Canizales Cruz, Founding Partner, The Canizales Group; Former Principal, Oyster Adams Bilingual School, DC
- Margarita Cruz, Instructor, La Promesa, Aldine Independent District, Houston, TX
- Louise Marks, Coordinator, Family Engagement for Title I Schools, Stafford County Public Schools, VA
- Zahra Rahimi, College freshman from Alexandria, VA
- Dr. Aída Walqui, PhD, Principal Investigator and Director, National Research and Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners, WestEd
Webinar Materials
- Speaker bios
- Slides
- Recording (Coming soon on Nov. 21)
- Transcript (Coming soon on Nov. 22)
Please note these webinars are not trainings and NCSSLE does not offer certificates or CEUs. At most, we can confirm your participation if you attend the live event. Please email NCSSLE@air.org after the event to request proof of attendance and make sure to include the event title and date. If you watch the recording after the event, we are not able to provide proof of viewing.
Related Resources
- Newcomer's Toolkit (ED)
- Dear Colleague Letter about Newcomer Toolkit (ED)
- A Guide For Youth-Serving Organizations | Promising Practices to Support Young Immigrants’ Education and Career Pathways (Education Northwest)
- Educational Spillover Effects of New English Learners in a New Destination State (RAND)
- Educator Briefs (Immigration Initiative at Harvard)
- Free to Learn (NCSSLE)
- NABE Homepage
- TESOL International Association
- The National Literacy Institute
- Colorin Colorado
More on the Lessons from the Field Series
To access archived materials from previous webinars and to find out what is coming next, go here.
In Case You Missed It
To prepare for this webinar, watch our previous webinars, Welcoming Newcomer Students and Supporting Newcomer Students. For additional information and strategies, download the U.S. Department of Education’s Newcomer Toolkit.
Please contact NCSSLE if you have any questions.