Season 3, Episode 2:

Episode Description: Our guests is Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes. She shares insight into the California ELA/ELD Framework, equity and access, teaching English to language learners, the benefits of bi-literacy, and more.

Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes went to San Diego State University. Then, she was immediately hired as a bilingual teacher and as a dual language teacher. She worked happily as a teacher for a long time and then went to work at the San Diego County Office of Education. She worked there for 20 years and was able to do a lot of professional development and writing of units in Spanish and ELD for writing with The Wright Institute. After that, she worked with the State Department of Education to help craft the ELD standards. There, she also worked with the framework committee. Dorta-Duque de Reyes was also in charge of the translation and the linguistic augmentation of the Common Core Standards into Spanish. She won the 2018 NABE Leadership Award, the National Association of Bilingual Education.

Chapter 9 of the CA ELA/ELD Framework-Access and Equity

The High School State Seal of Biliteracy

California English Language Development Standards

www.colorincolorado.org

Center for Applied Linguistics

California Association for Bilingual Education