Project AERO ELs

In this project, we are working toward four goals:

1. Integrate multimedia supports for teaching Spanish-speaking English learners into existing AERO lessons. 
2. Develop an online professional development module that improves reading intervention teachers’ knowledge and capacity to use AERO effectively with Spanish-speaking English learners at risk for reading difficulties and enhance an existing professional development module that seeks to improve educators’ knowledge and capacity to engage in two-way conversations with families about students’ literacy progress and support students’ AERO-aligned home learning. 
3. Develop a tool that assesses schools’ readiness to implement AERO and ensures alignment of AERO with existing curricula, state standards, school initiatives, and data collection processes. 
4. Pilot, finalize and disseminate a scalable and sustainable AERO English learners implementation package that improves access to and engagement with high-quality instruction for English learners at risk for reading difficulties, thereby holding the potential to improve student literacy outcomes.