A Legacy of Courage and Activism: Stories from the movement for educational access and equity for English Learners in California
A Legacy of Courage and Activism is an offering to the next generation of leaders in education equity—to inspire, to inform, and to give the gift of the history of this movement. From movement-building to cultivating the next generation of leadership, A Legacy of Courage and Activism: Stories from the Movement for Educational Access and Equity for English Learners in California by Dr. Laurie Olsen examines nearly 70 years of English learner history in California through interviews with leaders at the forefront of the movement.
The collection begins with a section, "Movement Building" which consists of two chapters:
The Story of ELLLI: Supporting a new generation of leadership and
The San Diego Story: Building a movement for Latino/Chicano educational equity and access
In the second section of the book, "A Historical Review of Key Issues," two chapters trace almost sixty years of advocacy on particular issues. They focus on the swings back and forth over decades as advocates have sought to build programs to meet the needs of Dual Language Learners and English Learners, and to create the policies that enact rights of access and establish a system and infrastructure to ensure those rights are implemented. In these case studies, progress is made but sometimes stalls, missteps happen and have to be corrected, and compromises are made, sometimes with high prices paid—but they provide a portrait of the persistence and determination of advocates over time, and build a foundational understanding of the issues that continue to be front and center in our movement. These historical reviews include:
Where Are The Teachers? A half-century of effort to address the teacher shortage for English Learners and
For the Youngest Children: Dual language learners in early childhood education
The third section of the book, "Advocacy Campaigns," describes campaigns that illustrate what it looks like to plan and pursue specific policy objectives over the long-haul, the duration necessary to bring about lasting change. The chapters include:
The California State Seal of Biliteracy: A ten-year advocacy campaign to reframe bilingualism from problem to asset and
Reparable Harm: The advocacy campaign for response to the needs of Long Term English Learners
Advocacy takes many forms, and advocates play a wide range of roles in the movement for English Learners. Some work in community-based organizations to organize families around their rights; some work in universities to produce research; some serve as lobbyists for legislation to establish the education code and resource flow that make English Learners working to build public recognition and investment in early childhood education. They have simultaneously worked to ensure recognition of and responsiveness to the needs and linguistic realities of Dual Language Learners in the early childhood field. Working on multiple fronts (as researchers, as preschool program directors, as leaders in the nonprofit sector, as policymakers, and as funders), those committed to equity and access for the young children of immigrant communities were often a lone voice and a single actor in their realms—until they found each other and forged a movement.
This chapter follows advocacy efforts that have resulted in a shift over the decades—from public investment in early education for the purposes of overcoming language and "readiness" deficits, to current investments that make it possible to build a research base and create program models that address the needs of Dual Languages Learners, and honor and support their cultures, families, and languages.
What characterizes these advocates—wherever they work—is their shared, deep commitment to the educational and language rights of English Learners, and their creativity and dedication to figuring out how to use wherever they are positioned as a springboard to further the movement for educational access.
The fourth section of the book, "The Many Roles of Advocates," is comprised of four chapters,
each describing what advocacy looks like in particular sectors of the educational system and when undertaken by people positioned in different roles in the system. While each illustrates the particular challenges and opportunities of working from those roles, they also show the importance of relationships and alliances across sectors, and how leveraging what can be done in each sector can create collective momentum that propels the movement forward.
The chapters include:
Lobbying for Bilingual Education and English Learners
The California County Offices of Education: Working within the system and the power of networks to move an English Learner agenda forward
A Non-Profit Organization Supports the Movement: California Tomorrow's Immigrant Students High School Demonstration Project
Advocacy from Within the Department of Education: Moving the field through publication.
The Appendix includes The Sweep of History: A California Timeline
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The collection begins with a section, "Movement Building" which consists of two chapters:
The Story of ELLLI: Supporting a new generation of leadership and
The San Diego Story: Building a movement for Latino/Chicano educational equity and access
In the second section of the book, "A Historical Review of Key Issues," two chapters trace almost sixty years of advocacy on particular issues. They focus on the swings back and forth over decades as advocates have sought to build programs to meet the needs of Dual Language Learners and English Learners, and to create the policies that enact rights of access and establish a system and infrastructure to ensure those rights are implemented. In these case studies, progress is made but sometimes stalls, missteps happen and have to be corrected, and compromises are made, sometimes with high prices paid—but they provide a portrait of the persistence and determination of advocates over time, and build a foundational understanding of the issues that continue to be front and center in our movement. These historical reviews include:
Where Are The Teachers? A half-century of effort to address the teacher shortage for English Learners and
For the Youngest Children: Dual language learners in early childhood education
The third section of the book, "Advocacy Campaigns," describes campaigns that illustrate what it looks like to plan and pursue specific policy objectives over the long-haul, the duration necessary to bring about lasting change. The chapters include:
The California State Seal of Biliteracy: A ten-year advocacy campaign to reframe bilingualism from problem to asset and
Reparable Harm: The advocacy campaign for response to the needs of Long Term English Learners
Advocacy takes many forms, and advocates play a wide range of roles in the movement for English Learners. Some work in community-based organizations to organize families around their rights; some work in universities to produce research; some serve as lobbyists for legislation to establish the education code and resource flow that make English Learners working to build public recognition and investment in early childhood education. They have simultaneously worked to ensure recognition of and responsiveness to the needs and linguistic realities of Dual Language Learners in the early childhood field. Working on multiple fronts (as researchers, as preschool program directors, as leaders in the nonprofit sector, as policymakers, and as funders), those committed to equity and access for the young children of immigrant communities were often a lone voice and a single actor in their realms—until they found each other and forged a movement.
This chapter follows advocacy efforts that have resulted in a shift over the decades—from public investment in early education for the purposes of overcoming language and "readiness" deficits, to current investments that make it possible to build a research base and create program models that address the needs of Dual Languages Learners, and honor and support their cultures, families, and languages.
What characterizes these advocates—wherever they work—is their shared, deep commitment to the educational and language rights of English Learners, and their creativity and dedication to figuring out how to use wherever they are positioned as a springboard to further the movement for educational access.
The fourth section of the book, "The Many Roles of Advocates," is comprised of four chapters,
each describing what advocacy looks like in particular sectors of the educational system and when undertaken by people positioned in different roles in the system. While each illustrates the particular challenges and opportunities of working from those roles, they also show the importance of relationships and alliances across sectors, and how leveraging what can be done in each sector can create collective momentum that propels the movement forward.
The chapters include:
Lobbying for Bilingual Education and English Learners
The California County Offices of Education: Working within the system and the power of networks to move an English Learner agenda forward
A Non-Profit Organization Supports the Movement: California Tomorrow's Immigrant Students High School Demonstration Project
Advocacy from Within the Department of Education: Moving the field through publication.
The Appendix includes The Sweep of History: A California Timeline
A Legacy of Courage and Activism: Stories from the movement for educational access and equity for English Learners in California
A Legacy of Courage and Activism is an offering to the next generation of leaders in education equity—to inspire, to inform, and to give the gift of the history of this movement. From movement-building to cultivating the next generation of leadership, A Legacy of Courage and Activism: Stories from the Movement for Educational Access and Equity for English Learners in California by Dr. Laurie Olsen examines nearly 70 years of English learner history in California through interviews with leaders at the forefront of the movement.
The collection begins with a section, "Movement Building" which consists of two chapters:
The Story of ELLLI: Supporting a new generation of leadership and
The San Diego Story: Building a movement for Latino/Chicano educational equity and access
In the second section of the book, "A Historical Review of Key Issues," two chapters trace almost sixty years of advocacy on particular issues. They focus on the swings back and forth over decades as advocates have sought to build programs to meet the needs of Dual Language Learners and English Learners, and to create the policies that enact rights of access and establish a system and infrastructure to ensure those rights are implemented. In these case studies, progress is made but sometimes stalls, missteps happen and have to be corrected, and compromises are made, sometimes with high prices paid—but they provide a portrait of the persistence and determination of advocates over time, and build a foundational understanding of the issues that continue to be front and center in our movement. These historical reviews include:
Where Are The Teachers? A half-century of effort to address the teacher shortage for English Learners and
For the Youngest Children: Dual language learners in early childhood education
The third section of the book, "Advocacy Campaigns," describes campaigns that illustrate what it looks like to plan and pursue specific policy objectives over the long-haul, the duration necessary to bring about lasting change. The chapters include:
The California State Seal of Biliteracy: A ten-year advocacy campaign to reframe bilingualism from problem to asset and
Reparable Harm: The advocacy campaign for response to the needs of Long Term English Learners
Advocacy takes many forms, and advocates play a wide range of roles in the movement for English Learners. Some work in community-based organizations to organize families around their rights; some work in universities to produce research; some serve as lobbyists for legislation to establish the education code and resource flow that make English Learners working to build public recognition and investment in early childhood education. They have simultaneously worked to ensure recognition of and responsiveness to the needs and linguistic realities of Dual Language Learners in the early childhood field. Working on multiple fronts (as researchers, as preschool program directors, as leaders in the nonprofit sector, as policymakers, and as funders), those committed to equity and access for the young children of immigrant communities were often a lone voice and a single actor in their realms—until they found each other and forged a movement.
This chapter follows advocacy efforts that have resulted in a shift over the decades—from public investment in early education for the purposes of overcoming language and "readiness" deficits, to current investments that make it possible to build a research base and create program models that address the needs of Dual Languages Learners, and honor and support their cultures, families, and languages.
What characterizes these advocates—wherever they work—is their shared, deep commitment to the educational and language rights of English Learners, and their creativity and dedication to figuring out how to use wherever they are positioned as a springboard to further the movement for educational access.
The fourth section of the book, "The Many Roles of Advocates," is comprised of four chapters,
each describing what advocacy looks like in particular sectors of the educational system and when undertaken by people positioned in different roles in the system. While each illustrates the particular challenges and opportunities of working from those roles, they also show the importance of relationships and alliances across sectors, and how leveraging what can be done in each sector can create collective momentum that propels the movement forward.
The chapters include:
Lobbying for Bilingual Education and English Learners
The California County Offices of Education: Working within the system and the power of networks to move an English Learner agenda forward
A Non-Profit Organization Supports the Movement: California Tomorrow's Immigrant Students High School Demonstration Project
Advocacy from Within the Department of Education: Moving the field through publication.
The Appendix includes The Sweep of History: A California Timeline
The collection begins with a section, "Movement Building" which consists of two chapters:
The Story of ELLLI: Supporting a new generation of leadership and
The San Diego Story: Building a movement for Latino/Chicano educational equity and access
In the second section of the book, "A Historical Review of Key Issues," two chapters trace almost sixty years of advocacy on particular issues. They focus on the swings back and forth over decades as advocates have sought to build programs to meet the needs of Dual Language Learners and English Learners, and to create the policies that enact rights of access and establish a system and infrastructure to ensure those rights are implemented. In these case studies, progress is made but sometimes stalls, missteps happen and have to be corrected, and compromises are made, sometimes with high prices paid—but they provide a portrait of the persistence and determination of advocates over time, and build a foundational understanding of the issues that continue to be front and center in our movement. These historical reviews include:
Where Are The Teachers? A half-century of effort to address the teacher shortage for English Learners and
For the Youngest Children: Dual language learners in early childhood education
The third section of the book, "Advocacy Campaigns," describes campaigns that illustrate what it looks like to plan and pursue specific policy objectives over the long-haul, the duration necessary to bring about lasting change. The chapters include:
The California State Seal of Biliteracy: A ten-year advocacy campaign to reframe bilingualism from problem to asset and
Reparable Harm: The advocacy campaign for response to the needs of Long Term English Learners
Advocacy takes many forms, and advocates play a wide range of roles in the movement for English Learners. Some work in community-based organizations to organize families around their rights; some work in universities to produce research; some serve as lobbyists for legislation to establish the education code and resource flow that make English Learners working to build public recognition and investment in early childhood education. They have simultaneously worked to ensure recognition of and responsiveness to the needs and linguistic realities of Dual Language Learners in the early childhood field. Working on multiple fronts (as researchers, as preschool program directors, as leaders in the nonprofit sector, as policymakers, and as funders), those committed to equity and access for the young children of immigrant communities were often a lone voice and a single actor in their realms—until they found each other and forged a movement.
This chapter follows advocacy efforts that have resulted in a shift over the decades—from public investment in early education for the purposes of overcoming language and "readiness" deficits, to current investments that make it possible to build a research base and create program models that address the needs of Dual Languages Learners, and honor and support their cultures, families, and languages.
What characterizes these advocates—wherever they work—is their shared, deep commitment to the educational and language rights of English Learners, and their creativity and dedication to figuring out how to use wherever they are positioned as a springboard to further the movement for educational access.
The fourth section of the book, "The Many Roles of Advocates," is comprised of four chapters,
each describing what advocacy looks like in particular sectors of the educational system and when undertaken by people positioned in different roles in the system. While each illustrates the particular challenges and opportunities of working from those roles, they also show the importance of relationships and alliances across sectors, and how leveraging what can be done in each sector can create collective momentum that propels the movement forward.
The chapters include:
Lobbying for Bilingual Education and English Learners
The California County Offices of Education: Working within the system and the power of networks to move an English Learner agenda forward
A Non-Profit Organization Supports the Movement: California Tomorrow's Immigrant Students High School Demonstration Project
Advocacy from Within the Department of Education: Moving the field through publication.
The Appendix includes The Sweep of History: A California Timeline
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Publisher: | Californians Together |
Publication date: | 02/09/2022 |
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