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1	Barriers and Bridges Understanding the Barriers of Our ESL Students & Building Bridges to Increase Their Success Laurie Huffman Leyva MS.MA.Ph.D. September 28, 2007
2	Down the Pipeline: Within the Next 5-10 Years: Lack of under preparedness of our students has grown Community Colleges are the least funded of all public education systems, yet we serve more students than the CSU and UC systems 700,000 students seeking higher education 3/4 of these students will attend our community colleges 50% will be immigrant students 180 different language groups in our nations’ schools
3	Children Now Advocacy Group Reports:
4	More Statistics
5	Barriers in Retention, Reading and Writing
6	Challenges Inherent in Learning to Speak, Read and Write in a Second Language
7	Put Yourself One Day in Their Shoes
8	Our ESL Students at the CCC What Works?
9	Barriers and Bridges
10	Tips for Effective Teaching in The Language Diverse Classroom
11	Critical Elements of Learning Concluding Thoughts