Aída Walqui

Affiliation

National Research and Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners, WestEd

Biography

Aída Walqui directs the National Research and Development Center for Improving the Education of English Learners in Secondary Schools at WestEd where she started and developed one of its signature programs, the Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) initiative. QTEL focuses on the development of the expertise of teachers and educational leaders to support elementary and secondary English Learners’ conceptual, analytic, and language practices in disciplinary subject matter areas. Walqui taught in the Division of Education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at the School of Education, Stanford University, where she coordinated the CLAD teaching credential. A native Peruvian, she received an MS in Sociolinguistics from Georgetown University, and her Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Culture from Stanford University. Walqui is the author of several books, including Scaffolding the Academic Success of Adolescent English Language Learners: A Pedagogy of Promise, English Language Learners and the New Standards. Developing Language, Content Knowledge, and Analytical Practices in the Classroom, and the recently published books Reconceptualizing the Role of Critical Dialogue in American Classrooms (Routledge), and Equity in Multilingual Schools and Communities (Multilingual Matters)