Quality Teaching for English Learners - QTEL

Newcomer English Learners deserve access to rigorous, grade-level learning from day one. Join WestEd's Leland Hartman for this free 30-minute webinar, Beyond Language Development: Designing Quality Opportunities to Learn for Newcomer Students. Explore how schools can integrate language development with content instruction using QTEL principles and preview how QTEL Summer Institutes deepen this work through sustained professional learning.

🗓️ Thu, May 28, 2026 • 12:00–12:30 p.m. PT / 3:00–3:30 p.m. ET
👉 Learn more and register: https://tinyurl.com/5bufaetk

Beyond Language Development: Designing Quality Opportunities to Learn for Newcomer Students Explore how schools can support newcomer English Learners through integrated, simultaneous language and content instruction, and preview how QTEL Summer Institutes deepen this work through sustained professional learning.Date: Thursday, May 28, 2026Time: 12–12:30 p.m. PT / 3–3:30 p.m. ETAs newco...

📢 May QTEL News: As the school year closes, we’re highlighting metacognition—creating space for educators and students to reflect on what we learned and how we learned it. This issue includes a student Reflection Chart, prompts for reflecting on support for Multilingual Learners, and a spotlight on Pauoa Elementary (Honolulu), where reflective professional learning helped raise students on track for English proficiency from 44% to 71%+.

QTEL News: End of Year Reflections End of Year ReflectionsMetacognition, or thinking about thinking, helps all people take control of their own learning. By offering space for reflection, we create an opportunity for ourselves, our teams, and our students to better understand not only what we learn, but also how we learn. This allows...

Texas educators: QTEL’s Summer Professional Development Institute is coming to Austin, TX. Join a hands-on learning experience to strengthen instruction that engages English Learners and Multilingual Learners—and supports deep, generative learning for all students you can use right away.

Registration is easy: QTEL/WestEd is already an approved vendor for Texas districts through Region 19 ESC, plus Katy ISD, Alief ISD, San Antonio ISD, Irving ISD, Brownsville ISD, Austin ISD, and Fort Worth ISD.

Space is limited. Texas registrations qualify for $100 off through April 30.

👉 Register now: https://tinyurl.com/QTEL-summer-2026

Register for the 2026 QTEL Summer Institutes Come and join national and international educators to enhance your expertise in offering English Learners coherent, robust, enticing, and well supported opportunities to learn.

Free Webinar: Creating High-Quality Learning Opportunities for Multilingual Learners

Join Teachers College Press for a free webinar highlighting the second edition of Amplifying the Curriculum: Designing Quality Learning Opportunities for Multilingual Learners.

🗓 Tuesday, May 5
⏰ 11:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET
🤝 Co-hosted by WestEd

The session will be moderated by Magaly Lavadenz (Director, Center for Equity for English Learners at Loyola Marymount University) and will feature co-editors Aída Walqui, George C. Bunch, and Peggy Mueller.

This updated edition also includes contributions from WestEd colleagues Elsa Billings, Haiwen Chu, Leslie Hamburger, Lee Hartman, Mary Schmida, Aída Walqui, and Tanya Warren.

🔗 Register here: https://tinyurl.com/y2xbkmdp

In this video, QTEL's Haiwen Chu shares how sorting tasks can support Multilingual Learners’ math thinking.

How can sorting tasks offer Multilingual Learners rich opportunities to develo important mathematical ideas? In this video, I lay out some of the purposes for sorting. Which are unpacked further in… | Haiwen Chu How can sorting tasks offer Multilingual Learners rich opportunities to develo important mathematical ideas? In this video, I lay out some of the purposes for sorting. Which are unpacked further in this article published by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics - NCTM https://lnkd.in/gVdFMXSb

QTEL’s Tanya Warren is presenting at NSTA 2026 (Apr 15–18 | Anaheim Convention Center). Join her sessions on approaches that deepen scientific sense-making and expand access for Multilingual Learners—including Amplifying Card Sorts for Scientific Sense-Making (Fri, Apr 17) and Building a Vision for Opportunity and Sustained Interactions for Multilingual Learners (Sat, Apr 18).

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National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) 2026 Annual Conference QTEL's Tanya Warren will present at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) 2026 Annual Conference, held April 15–18, 2026, at the Anaheim Convention Center.NSTA ANA26 is the premier national professional learning event for science and STEM educators, bringing together teachers, curriculu...

📢 April QTEL News is out! As educators, it’s our job to ensure the curriculum we teach provides high-challenge, high-support learning for all students—including Multilingual Learners. Use the QTEL Curriculum Review Tool to examine a lesson or full curriculum, name strengths and needs, and plan how to amplify learning opportunities for Multilingual and English Learners.
https://mailchi.mp/wested/qtel-news-april-2026