Advancing Early Literacy Learning for All Children: Implications of the NELP Report for Dual-Language Learners

KRIS D. GUTIÉRREZ is a professor and provost’s chair in Literacy and Learning Sciences at the School of Education, University of Colorado, Education Building, 249 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0249; [email protected]. Her work focuses on literacy learning and designing robust learning environments for students from nondominant communities, hybrid language and syncretic literacy practices, pedagogy, and educational policy.

MARLENE ZEPEDA is a professor and chair of the Department of Child and Family Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, Engineering and Technology A535, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032; [email protected]. She led a team of national experts that developed California’s preschool foundations for dual-language learners.

DINA C. CASTRO is a scientist at FPG Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, FPG Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 105 Smith Level Rd., CB#8180, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8180; [email protected]. She serves as director of the Center for Early Care and Education Research: Dual Language Learners, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. Her research includes randomized controlled studies to assess the efficacy of interventions aimed at improving the quality of practices to promote development and learning among young dual-language learners.