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Meet Trailblazer: A New Language and Literacy Program for Young Learners

Presenters: KRISTEN KEATING, SUSANNAH REED

29 April

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Join us for an overview of Trailblazer, National Geographic Learning’s new program for young learners of English! With Senior Development Editor Kristen Keating and author Susannah Reed as your guides, you’ll learn how this program prepares young learners with the language support and literacy skills they need to thrive in a multicultural, media-rich world. We’ll review the exciting features of this program designed to help students navigate the world through language and literacy, including a three-inquiry approach in each unit, real-life stories of National Geographic Explorers, and a multiple literacies framework underpinning each lesson.

Whether you’re ready to teach with Trailblazer or interested in learning what this program can bring to your young learner classroom, we hope you’ll join us to help your young learners start blazing trails in English!

Kristen Keating is a Senior Development Editor at National Geographic Learning and lives in Vermont. She has taught both English and Spanish at the primary school level, and she has developed materials for bilingual education in the US. At NGL, Kristen has contributed to the development of several primary and preprimary English language learning programs, including Welcome to Our World 2nd Edition and, most recently, Trailblazer. 

Susannah Reed is an experienced author and educational consultant, specializing in ELT materials for young learners of English. After teaching in Spain and the United Kingdom, Susannah has worked in educational publishing for over 25 years as a publisher as well as a writer of ELT course books and readers for children around the world. Committed to exciting, caring and multi-disciplinary materials which inspire children’s natural curiosity and creativity, Susannah has developed learning materials with many of the top ELT publishers including Look and See for National Geographic Learning. She is now proud to be an author on the innovative young learner’s series Trailblazer. 

Segment: Young Learners Hosted by: National Geographic Learning Global Category: Critical Thinking, Literacy, Product Session Presenters: Kristen Keating, Susannah Reed

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