Episode 16: Providing Equity for our English Language Learners
Steve is joined by Lindsey Bird who has years of teaching experience that included a Language Institute in Modesto, California. Listen to Lindsey's story and truth around practices, policies, and leadership with multilingual support.
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Lindsey Bird
Educator/Consultant/Coach/Ally
Lindsey currently leads the Teach Plus California Emergent Bilingual Change Agent Network. In this role, Lindsey supports PK-12 teacher leaders from across California in site based change efforts to align practices, policies, and pedagogies with the CA EL Roadmap. Lindsey also advises the Teach Plus National Instructional Leadership team on teacher leadership curriculum development focused on multilingual learner support and policy connections. She is also an independent consultant and board member for GO Public Schools.
Lindsey recently left a seventeen year teaching career, the past decade of which was spent as the developer, instructor, and coordinator of the Language Institute, a specialized program serving immigrant, refugee, and asylum seeking high school students in Modesto, California, which was nationally recognized as a model for supporting the needs of newcomer students. Lindsey is a social justice champion and ally to immigrant students and families at the local, state, and national level. An alumna of the Teach Plus California fellowship, Lindsey advocated the state legislature for tenure reform, as well as successfully inserting explicit protections for newcomer students in the education code. She received “Maestra del Ano” award by the Association of Mexican American Educators and the “Amiga of the Year” award from El Concilio, and was honored as a Carlston Family Foundation “Outstanding Teacher of America”.
Lindsey earned a BA in Social Science from California State University Chico and a M.Ed. in literacy and digital learning from the U… Read More