Collaborative member and Director of Teacher Professional
Development at WestEd Aida Walqui, along with Margaret Heritage, the Assistant Director
for Professional
Development at the National Center
for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Robert Linquanti, Project Director
for English Learner Evaluation and Accountability Support and Senior Researcher
for the California Comprehensive Center at WestEd, lay the
groundwork for continuing the progress teachers have made with English
language learner (ELL) students in their new book English
Language Learners and the New Standards: Developing
Language, Content Knowledge, and Analytical Practices in the Classroom.