Selected Presentations

Highlights of David and Yvonne Freeman’s National/International Presentations

2008
NCTE—National Council of Teachers of English (1) Bridges to Literacy Comprehension for ELLS: Culturally Relivant and Bilingual Books for Latino Children (2) Helping Secondary English Language Learners Develop Academic Language.

2007
NCTE—National Council of Teachers of English (1) Academid Language for ENglish Language Learners (2) Principles for Working with English Language Learners in a Mainstream Class.

2005
NCTE—National Council of Teachers of English (1) Overview of Language Acquisition Theory (2) Sheltering content Area Larning for ELLs in High School (3) Using Preview/View/Review with ELLs (4) Effective Reading for English Language Learners.

2004 
TESOL—Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (1) The Reading Process (reading research symposium) (2) Celebrating our Students’ Becoming

TESOL Professionals (invited featured talk) (3) Closing the Achievement Gap for English Language Learners

IRA—International Reading Association (1) Developing Literacy with Learners of English: Beyond Just Good Teaching (2) Closing the Achievement Gap for Three Types of ELL’s

NABE—(National Association of Bilingual Educators) (1) Making Curriculum and Materials Accessible for Academic and Concept Development for All Learners (featured talk) (2) Students, Teachers, and Good Curriculum in Dual Language Programs (3) Meeting the Challenges of Implementing Two Way Bilingual Programs (4) Keys for Success for Older ELL’s (5) Author’s panel: On Our Way to English

2003 
NABE—Preconference Two Way Institute (1) Two Programs in Two States and (2) Developing Reading Proficiency in Two Languages

TESOL—(1) Research Academic Session: Teaching L2 Reading for Comprehension and Acquisition (2) Author’s Roundtable (3) Keys to Success for Older Learners (4) Research and Strategies for Bilingual Readers

IRA—(1) Preconference Institute featured talk: Teaching English Learners to Read (2) Teaching Reading to English Language Learners: Skills or Acquisition?

 
Sampling of Regional/State Presentations by David and Yvonne Freeman

2006

• Colorado State University, Pueblo—Southern Colorado Teacher Education Alliance Summer Institute (1) Closing the Achievement Gap for English Language Learners (2) Developing Reading Proficiency for Academic Successs
• Colorado Council of IRA (CCIRA), Denver, CO—Conference on Literacy featured speaker
• Toronto District Schools, Ontario, Canada—Celebrating Linguistic diversity Conference (1) Closing the Achievement Gap for English Language Learners

2004 

• Sanibel  (Florida) Leadership Conference  Developing Reading Proficiency for Academic Success—invited presentation
• Georgetown University  (1) Working Effectively with Older English Learners (2) Helping English Learners Develop Reading Proficiency
• New York City Columbia Teacher’s College (1) Keys for Success for the English Language Learner (2) Keys for Success for English Language Learners: What Principals and Coaches Need to Know
• Bank Street College (1) Keys for School Success for English Language Learners
• San Diego, California (1) Academic Success for ELL’s (2) Helping ELL’s Develop Reading Proficiency (3) Keys for Working with ELL’s
• University of Texas San Antonio (1) Closing the Achievement Gap for ELL’s (2) Academic Language and Concept Development for ELL’s
• Nazareth College, Rochester—all day presentation to teachers from six school districts on effective ways to work with older English language learners
• Omaha Public Schools/Creighton University—two all day talks for teachers from around Nebraska on working with older English learners.
• Illinois Association for Multilingual Multicultural Education–Keys for Success for all English Language Learners—Keynote
• Texas Regional Service Center One—Effective Practices for Teaching English Learners (Edinburg and Laredo)

Staff Development Work  

• Extensive work with over 25 local schools districts as well as with schools throughout California, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Nevada, Kansas, Ohio, Arizona, Texas, Illinois, New Jersey, Iowa, Nebraska, Alaska, and Florida.
• Lithuania 2000—Workshops for teachers at four major universities in the country.
• Argentina 1997—Workshops for teachers from a consortium of Uruguay bilingual schools.