Tell Your ELL Colleagues About the 14th Annual Our Kids Summer Institute

“Speaking for All Learners” will be held on June 12-13, 2018 at North Polk High School. PK-12 educators will have the opportunity to network with other educational professionals, discover new strategies for working with English language learners in Iowa and meet national and local experts to enrich practices for increasing EL achievement.



Conference topics include: 

• Strategies for addressing barriers to academic and language learning for English Learners in the classroom 
• Best practices for supporting early childhood language acquisition for preschool English Learners 
• Instructional leadership strategies for English language learning programs 
• Connecting and collaborating with other educators responsible for the success of English Learners 
• And many more learning opportunities and topics from experts in educating English Learners! 

Featured Speakers

Ayanna Cooper, Ed.D.

ELL specialist with extensive and diverse experience teaching educators how to enhance instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse learners.



David Edward Garcia

Grew up on the Mexican border in Texas, two worlds-linguistically and culturally. Successful speaker of five languages, teacher, entrepreneur, comedian.



Anita Pandey, Ph.D. 
Professor of Linguistics and Coordinator of Professional Development and Communication at Morgan State University in Baltimore.



Ryan Wise, Ed.D.

Director of the Iowa Department of Education



Plus, our amazing local experts and students!



Information and Registration

Learn more at the conference website and register at this link by June 5.



Incentive

Heartland AEA Title III will refund the cost of registration ($150), plus provide an honorarium of $200 to off-contract public and non-public educators for full attendance and participation. This funding is not available to public or non-public districts served by the Des Moines Public Schools.