Watson Educational Consulting provides high quality consulting services to schools, districts, legislators, community organizations, and families in support of English Learners and Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education in Early Childhood through Grade 12 settings, as well as Adult Education.
Dr. Jill A. Watson: a recognized expert on English Language Development and the needs of Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education.
As a key member of the higher education team that worked with Minnesota legislators to craft and pass the 2014 LEAPS (Learning for English Academic Proficiency and Success) Act to support English Learners, Dr. Watson is positioned to provide uniquely qualified consulting services to support compliance with requirements of the law in the areas of school policy and programming, teacher and administrator practice, relicensure, and services to students and families.
Services include:
Dr. Jill A. Watson: a recognized expert on English Language Development and the needs of Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education.
- Published author, frequent presenter on effective instruction for EL / SLIFE populations
- Noted SLIFE advocate: community, legislature
- Special expertise in literacy & academic development of secondary EL SLIFE
- MN K-12 licensed ESL & World Language teacher
- M.A., Middlebury College French School: premier language immersion school in U.S.
- Ph.D., highly regarded Second Languages & Cultures program at the University of Minnesota (advisor: Martha Bigelow)
- Taught at University of Minnesota, Cornell University, NY
- Worked on English Learner team at the Minnesota Department of Education
- Depth of experience in K-12 ESL teaching and program leadership
- Mastery of knowledge base on research-based best practices for EL development
- Extensive consulting experience with schools, districts (urban, suburban, rural, charter, private)
As a key member of the higher education team that worked with Minnesota legislators to craft and pass the 2014 LEAPS (Learning for English Academic Proficiency and Success) Act to support English Learners, Dr. Watson is positioned to provide uniquely qualified consulting services to support compliance with requirements of the law in the areas of school policy and programming, teacher and administrator practice, relicensure, and services to students and families.
Services include:
- Highly engaging large and small group professional development for teachers, school staff, and administrators
- Job-embedded PD: observation, coaching, capacity building, evaluation
- Program evaluation and design
- Culturally relevant teaching and administration
- Infusion of WIDA standards and performance indicators into instruction
- Interpretation and design of assessment data and instruments
- Intake procedures and protocols, scheduling, learning path planning
- Standards integration in ELD; sheltered instruction; co-teaching
- Integration of World Languages & Cultures: native language, bilingual & immersion support
- Engaging all stakeholders in the school improvement process
- Interpreting the oral - literate - digital cultural dynamic for targeted intervention
- Grant writing support
- Research
- Advocacy
- Anoka Hennepin Public Schools
- Banaadir Academies
- Dugsi Academy
- Faribault Public Schools
- Lincoln International High School
- Minnesota Math & Science Academy
- Minnesota Transitions High School
- Mounds View Public Schools
- South Dakota Title III Consortium
- St. Cloud Math & Science Academy
- St. Paul Public Schools
