[EDLING:249] Texas: Teaching math to English-language learners

[Francis M. Hult]

Lamar University

Teaching math to English-language learners

The Lamar University Departments of Mathematics and Professional Pedagogy and 
Region 5 Education Service Center  hosted 23 high school and middle school 
teachers from across Southeast Texas  as part of The Texas State University 
System Mathematics for English-Language Learners Initiative.

Sessions of the second annual Professional Development Conference were June 20-
22 on the Lamar campus and at the Region 5 Education Service Center in 
Beaumont. More than 100 Houston teachers will attend a second workshop in 
August, to be conducted by Lamar at the Region 4 Education Service Center in 
Houston. 

The initiative is a multi-year, multimillion-dollar effort aimed at developing 
instructional resources designed to increase the effectiveness of mathematics 
instruction for students who are English- language learners (ELL), said Sandra 
Richardson, assistant professor of mathematics and a co-primary investigator 
for the project.

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