Beyond Language Development: Designing Quality Opportunities to Learn for Newcomer Students

Explore how schools can support newcomer English Learners through integrated, simultaneous language and content instruction, and preview how Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) Summer Institutes deepen this work through sustained professional learning.

As newcomer populations grow nationwide, schools are challenged to move beyond remediation-focused approaches toward models that integrate language development with rigorous content learning.

In this 30-minute interactive webinar, explore how to design instruction and systems that support newcomer English Learners in accessing rigorous, grade-level learning from the start. Participants will examine how QTEL principles—academic rigor, high expectations, quality interactions, sustained language focus, and quality curricula—can guide instruction that builds both understanding and academic language.

Session Discussion Topics

• Moving beyond remediation toward rigorous, grade-level access 
• Integrating language development with content learning 
• Scaffolding for access while maintaining high expectations  
• Aligning systems to support newcomer success