Keynote Speaker

2023 IABE Conference Keynote Speaker

Newcomers, Pre-Literate Secondary Students, Long-Term English Learners

Educators will explore interactive and engaging learning strategies which maximize English Language Development as students learn academic content. There is a distinctive thread woven throughout Dr. Salva’s sessions of a growth mindset belief that with effort and targeted strategies, all English Learners are able to accelerate their learning despite challenges they may have faced.

* Practical classroom strategies for supporting older English learners who are newcomers, both those who are pre-literate as well as for those multilingual learners who are literate in their primary or multiple languages

* Strategies, techniques and scaffolds for raising up and propelling learning for long term English learners (LTELs)

* An opportunity for an online spring book study