ENL Hernandez Fellows
Program Benefits
What can becoming an ENL Hernandez Fellow do for you?
- Learn from exceptional faculty and in a community that is enriched by diversity in experience, ethnicity, and age.
- Engage in a rich community of educators from across the country, while completing coursework from the comfort of your own classroom and home.
- Examine cultural influences in the lives of children and create culturally sustaining classrooms and schools.
- Develop a deep understanding of the process of second language acquisition in order to foster language growth.
- Employ research-based instructional strategies in order to optimize learning outcomes and ensure mastery of both language and content.
- Implement literacy practices rooted in culturally relevant materials and literacy development in the content areas.
- Practice project-based learning through home visits, case studies, language assessments, and professional development delivery.
- Engage with course assignments that directly apply to daily classroom practice.
- Acquire graduate level credits at an affordable price from a prestigious university.
- Earn ENL credits that can lead to ENL/ESL/ESOL/ELL endorsements in most states or help towards initial teachers licenses or continuing education credits.
Program Benefts
How do ENL Hernandez Fellows impact their school communities?
- Transform school communities by embracing Christ’s call to welcome the stranger.
- Apply social justice teachings and equity models for English learners.
- Implement school-wide approaches to meeting the holistic needs of English learners: language, culture, academic, emotional, spiritual, and social.
- Support for English learners through research-based teaching strategies, ensuring that students master content and language.
- Conduct regular home visits and strengthen home and school connections.
- Administer language assessments.
- Foster connections with local agencies that can provide services to families.
- Provide leadership in creating policies, programs, and supports for English learners.
- Facilitate personalized professional development for the school and/or (arch)diocese.
Your students and your schools need you. Applications for the 20th cohort open October 15th!