English Learners Success Forum

Crystal Gonzales, Executive Director

Education

ELSF in action

English Learners Success Forum (ELSF) mission is to educational equity for multilingual learners by increasing the supply of high-quality instructional materials that center their cultural and linguistic assets.

Year Founded: 2017

ELSF envisions a world where every multilingual student engages in learning that allows them to thrive academically and choose their path to success.

ELSF’s approach reflects the belief that students with developing levels of English proficiency can thrive academically, but that they require instruction and materials that carefully support their understanding and use of emerging language as they participate in content learning. 

ELSF targets (1) the supply of high-quality instructional materials by working with content developers and publishers, and (2) the demand for high-quality instructional materials by educating curriculum adoption decision-makers on the selection of instructional materials and partnering with professional learning providers that guide the adoption process. They engage the full ecosystem of multilingual learners supports in instructional materials: content developers and publishers, state education agencies (prioritizing states with a high and growing multilingual learner population and favorable multilingual learner policies) and professional learning organizations. Currently, their services and tools focus on grade-level ELA, math and, most recently, science, English Language Development supplemental materials, and Spanish Language Arts.

In the last five years, ELSF has worked with 22 content developers, many of which have materials in all 50 states impacting 9,000 school districts and nearly 25 million students, to improve their products by making them inclusive of multilingual learners.

Crystal Gonzales ELSF

Crystal Gonzales

Executive Director

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