Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center

The 2008 CREATE Conference will present current research on methods for improving the content area learning of ELLs in the middle grades. The presenters are among the nation’s foremost scholars in areas related to the academic achievement of ELLs. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with the presenters and colleagues from across the country in small group settings. Featured speakers will include CREATE researchers and other experts in the field.

Diane August - CREATE; Center for Applied Linguistics
David Francis - CREATE; Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics, University of Houston
Elfrieda Hiebert- CREATE; University of California, Berkeley
Okhee Lee - University of Miami
Sylvia Linan - Thompson-CREATE; Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts, University of Texas at Austin
Cara Richards - CREATE; California State University, Long Beach
William Schmidt - Michigan State University
Deborah Short - CREATE; Center for Applied Linguistics
Catherine Snow - CREATE; Harvard University
Phil Vahey - Center for Technology in Learning; SRI International
Sharon Vaughn - CREATE; Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts, University of Texas at Austin