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What Grantmakers Need to Know About the
Groundbreaking Practices to Engage ELL Students, Families and Communities
4/20/2010
web seminar

Tuesday, April 20 11 am PT/2 pm ET

Web Seminar Presented Jointly by Grantmakers for Education and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees

Studies repeatedly show students do better in school when their families are engaged in their education. But when it come to the one in ten K-12 students who are English Language Learners (ELL)--whose parents are unfamiliar with US educational practices and speak very little English themselves--fostering family engagement can be exceptionally challenging. Join Claire Chang of Minnesota Community Foundation and The St. Paul Foundation, Elyse Barbell and Be Jensen of the Literacy Assistance Center, and Joanna Brown of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association for the second in a series of programs on what grantmakers need to know about how ELL issues are affecting education today. Learn how funders can increase ELL learners' educational success in early childhood and K-12 by supporting programs that engage and serve parents a long with kids.

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This web seminar is free to GFE and GCIR members and is $40 for eligible non-members. Advance registration is required; registration closes at COB April 16.

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