NAELPA Membership 2022

Donna Albrecht

Director of Graduate Studies in Education, Coordinator of the ENL/ESL and Gifted and Talented Program

Indiana University Southeast

Donna Albrecht is the Director of Graduate Studies in Education and Coordinator of the ENL/ESL and Gifted and Talented Programs at Indiana University Southeast. She has taught both English as a Second Language (ESL) and secondary Social Studies and has administered in US and international PK-12 and college settings for over 30 years.  She designed and administered ESL programs in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and in the United States.  Donna leads a High Ability/English Learner Collaborative in conjunction with the Indiana Department of Education. Donna has an M.A. in TEFL from the American University in Cairo, an Ed.S. in School Superintendency from Ball State University, and an Ed.D. from Ball State in Educational Administration and Supervision. She has administrative and teaching credentials in ENL/ESL, Gifted and Talented and Social Studies. Her research focuses on the attributes, professional development needs, and policy issues of the leadership of PK-12 ESL programs, identifying and teaching English learners with high abilities, and effective training of teachers who work with English learners.

• 10:30 - 11:15 AM, March 22, 2022 Virtual

  NAELPA Networking Coffee Chat - Dual-Identified Students: MLs and Special Education and/or Gifted and Talented

• 4:30 - 5:15 PM, March 22, 2022 Virtual

  NAELPA Networking Coffee Chat - Dual-Identified Students: MLs and Special Education and/or Gifted and Talented

Marcy Voss

Marcy Voss recently retired after 36 years in public education, having coordinated Gifted and Special Programs in several Texas school districts. She received her M.Ed. in Educational Psychology with a specialization in Gifted Education from Texas A&M University. During her career, she served on the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented (TAGT) Board and as Chair of the Texas Education Commissioner’s Gifted and Talented Advisory Council. Marcy currently serves as Facilitator for the TAGT Emerging Leaders Program and Chair of the Gifted Education Special Interest Group for the National Association for Bilingual Education, in addition to working as an education product developer (Q3 Cards, TALK Cards, and Academic Language Cards) and staff development trainer for educators of gifted and multilingual students.

• 10:30 - 11:15 AM, March 22, 2022 Virtual

  NAELPA Networking Coffee Chat - Dual-Identified Students: MLs and Special Education and/or Gifted and Talented

• 4:30 - 5:15 PM, March 22, 2022 Virtual

  NAELPA Networking Coffee Chat - Dual-Identified Students: MLs and Special Education and/or Gifted and Talented

Carol Salva

Consultant

Seidlitz Education

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Dr. Carol Salva is an author and award winning educator with proven success working with under-schooled, multilingual learners classified as SLIFE (Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education) or ELD (English Language Development) students. Carol routinely works with EL program leaders to support their educators in effective yet practical ways.
Dr. Salva is a Seidlitz Education consultant and a former elementary, middle and high school teacher. She lives with her husband and three children in Texas.

• 4:00 - 5:30 PM, November 15, 2022 Virtual - Zoom

  Effective Literacy Instruction for Secondary Newcomers PANEL