ALAS (Acquisition of Language Skills and Academic Literacy) Teacher Education Project is designed to bridge Biliteracy and Special Education teacher preparation. ALAS involves two higher education departments engaged in teacher preparation, to respond to California’s need for bilingual special education teachers. The workshop will report on five years of data (2008-2013) of a two-year teacher preparation program, and the use of seven standards to evaluate the program, and participants perceptions on the strengths and needs of their training. The evolving results have implications for teacher preparation curriculum change and reform in addressing ELs, and institutional commitment to modify teacher preparation programs to match the needs of the linguistically diverse client school communities. Among the issues is the focus of how to bridge the curriculum of two disciplenes.
