About the AMPP
Advancing Multilingual Policy and Practice Committee
Are you passionate about the policies and practices impacting Multilingual Learners? Do you desire to be part of the voice for MLs locally and nationally? If you answered yes, become an active member of the Advancing Multilingual Policy and Practice Committee.
The AMPP committee works to:
Stay current on and inform the NAELPA board and membership about issues of policy and practice affecting EL/MLs
Increase knowledge and skills of NAELPA members and advocates to support EL/ML interests
Create, curate, and share resources that elevate key issues of policy and practice
Support organizational efforts to interface with external partners and collaborators to advance promising practices and policy
The committee meets on the first Thursday of the month from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET/10:00am - 11:00 am CT/9:00 am - 10:00 am MT/8:00am - 9:00 am PT to discuss and take action on ML related policies and practices.
Meet the chairs
Ivanna Mann
Thrower Anderson
Thrower Anderson
Ivanna Mann Thrower Anderson is past president of the National Association of English Learner Program Administrators (NAELPA) and is their Advancing Multilingual Policy and Practice Committee (AMPP) co-chair. Ivanna has served as an ML/Title III Consultant with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction since 2009. She has worked with multilingual learners in the US, Korea, and China, for almost 40 years, and has served students from the pre-K classroom through the offices of corporate presidents.
Dr. Julie Sugarman
Julie Sugarman is Associate Director for K-12 Education Research at the Migration Policy Institute’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy. Her areas of interest include policies that support effective instructional programs for English Learners, school funding, federal education policy, and helping stakeholders understand key education policy issues. Previously, Dr. Sugarman was a senior research associate at the Center for Applied Linguistics specializing in dual language education and program evaluation. She earned her Ph.D. in second language education and culture from the University of Maryland, College Park.
This committee was previously two separate committees. As overlap developed, the Advocating for MLs and the Standards, Assessment and Policy Committees were combined into the Advancing Multilingual Policy and Practice (AMPP) Committee. Past committee work of interest includes:
Current AMPP Work
Advocating for MLs
Using ESSER, ESSER II, and ESSER III Funds to Support ML Education
Written Translation and Oral Interpretation Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Important Information about Translation and Interpretation for Non-English Speaking Families
Standards, Assessment and Policy
U.S. Department of Education answers to NAELPA's questions about English language proficiency standards and assessment alignment (linked to A State’s Guide to the U.S. Department of Education’s Assessment Peer Review Process)
Other related NAELPA work
Resources for Newcomer Multilingual Learners
NAELPA Position Statement: Improving Educational Supports for Dual Language Learners (DLLs)