The Voice of the Office of English Language Acquisition
Description
This month, Dr. Lawrence welcomes the Deputy Secretary and Director for the Office of English
Language Acquisition (OELA) at the U.S. Department of Education, Montserrat Garibay. Follow
along as Ms. Garibay shares her journey from being an undocumented immigrant from Mexico
City to becoming a U.S. citizen, National Board-Certified teacher, with a Master of Education
from the University of Texas-Austin. She has proudly served as a bilingual pre-kindergarten
teacher.
Dr. Lawrence and Ms. Garibay dive into some key opportunities, as well as, critical challenges
that English/multilingual learners face in the U.S. education system and how OELA and the U.S.
Department of Education are working together to address those challenges and leverage
opportunities for collaboration
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