Engage, Inspire, and Support: QTEL Summer Institutes for Educators of English Learners, Including Newcomer Students | Q&A With Lee Hartman

Engage, Inspire, and Support: QTEL Summer Institutes for Educators of English Learners, Including Newcomer Students | Q&A With Lee Hartman

As the number of students who are Newcomers—recently arrived immigrants to the United States who attend school in grades K–12—grows nationwide, educators seek effective ways to teach language and subject-area content.   WestEd’s Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) employs a sociocultural and collaborative approach to instruction, a model that has been proven to increase classroom engagement. And this summer, hundreds of educators will a…