Bay Area National Professional Development Scholarship

The National Professional Development (NPD) provides scholarships and teacher training for bilingual instructional personnel serving English language learners.

About the National Professional Development
The National Professional Development program is funded by the U.S Department of Education’s Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement & Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA) under Title III of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) act of 2001.

The mission of the NPD program is to provide professional development designed to improve the ability of teacher educators and higher education faculties in teaching English Language Learners (ELL). It is the goal of NPD to prepare teacher candidates for instruction that accelerates ELL’s acquisition of English, literacy, and academic content knowledge. The program is also designed to upgrade teacher education curricula that are aligned with State content and State English language standards.

The founder and director of the NPD program is Dr. Christy Lao. Dr. Lao is also the Associate Professor of College of Education at San Francisco State University.

Scholarship Deadline
Friday, May 14, 2010 by 5:00 pm.

Scholarship Applications
Completed application packets can be submitted to Burk Hall 228, emailed to npdell@sfsu.edu or mailed to the address below:

NPD Program – San Francisco State University 
1
600 Holloway Ave., BH 228,
San Francisco, CA 94132

Please click here to download the application packet.