About Project E3

Project E3 is a professional development model designed to improve academic language instruction for English learners in early childhood settings. Housed in the Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education Department of UNLV's College of Education, the project prepared 29 in-service educators from urban and rural settings to serve as Teacher Leaders to support improved academic language and content instruction.

Project E3 encompasses three interrelated components:

• University coursework leading to a M.Ed. in English Language Learning, an English Language Acquisition and Development endorsement, and license

• Customized coaching

• Saturday Advanced Professional Language Institutes or instructional leadership teams

Project E3 is based on What Works Clearinghouse recommendations related to English language (vocabulary) acceleration via content area instruction for children who enter school with emerging oral language abilities.

(Carlo, et al., 2004; Pollard-Durodola, et al., 2011; Silverman & Hines, 2009) including intense academic vocabulary instruction across several days using a variety of instructional activities (Carlo, et al., 2004; Silverman & Hines, 2009) (See http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practice_guides/english_learners_pg_040114.pdf#page=20; http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/intervention_reports/wwc_sharedbook_041415.pdf, pg 5)