ELL Policy Project: Acknowledgements
Our ELL Policy section was made possible by the Carnegie Corporation, as well as a number of advisors and friends of the Colorín Colorado project. We'd first like to offer a special thanks to Andrés Henríquez, Program Officer and Project Manager for Literacy and Standards, Carnegie Corporation.
Friends and Advisors
In addition, thanks to our the following:
Project Advisors:
- Nancy Cloud, Rhode Island College
- Dr. Karen Ford, University of Virginia
- Dr. Robin Scarcella, University of California — Irvine
- Rebecca Freeman Field, Caslon Publishing
- Giselle Lundy-Ponce, American Federation of Teachers
- Beth Antuñez, American Federation of Teachers
Federal and State Policy Guide Authors:
- Dr. Debbie Zacarian, Collaborative for Educational Services
- Blake Spitz, Collaborative for Educational Services
Writers:
- Sharon Adelman Reyes, DiversityLearningK12
- James Crawford, DiversityLearningK12
- Patricia Gándara, University of California - Los Angeles
- Fred Genesee, McGill University
- Cynthia Lundgren, Hamline University
- Paula Markus, Toronto District School Board
- Karen Nemeth, Language Castle
- Dr. Laurie Olsen, Californians Together
- Kristina Robertson, Burnsville School District, MN
- John Segota, Teachers of English for Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
- Diane Staehr-Fenner, TESOL
- Joaquín Tamayo, Aspen Institute
- Wayne Wright, University of Texas — San Antonio
U.S. Department of Education:
- Supreet Anand, Title III State Consolidated Grants
- Dr. Rosalinda Barrera, Office of English Language Acquisition
- Millie Bentley-Memon, Title III State Consolidated Grant Group
- Lillian Dorka, Office for Civil Rights
- Dr. Joanne Urrutia, Office of English Language Acquisition
Publishers:
- Jennifer Bagley, Education Week
- Norma Barrera, Texas Education Agency
- Maria Czop, Heinemann Press
- Rebecca Freeman Field, Caslon Publishing
- Catherine Gerbasi, Portage and Main
- Beverly Rivero and Libby Powell, Teachers College Press
- Elinor Robertson, Multilingual Matters
- Judith Wilburn, Harvard University Press
Colorín Colorado/WETA Staff
- Lydia Breiseth, Manager, Colorín Colorado
- Noel Gunther, Executive Director
- Christian Lindstrom, Director, Learning Media
- Tina Chovanec, Manager, Reading Rockets
- Shalini Anand, Senior Manager, Web Development
- Ashley Gilleland, Associate Producer
- Laura Schreiber, Web Producer
- Kelly Deckert, Associate Manager, Online Media
- Justin Rhodes, Project Coordinator
- Karen Ford, Ph.D., Research Consultant
- Laurie Fry, Publicist
Finally, thanks to the state coordinators who helped verify statewide information and all of our visitors who contributed their feedback and questions, with a special thanks to graduate student Juliet James for her helpful input.
