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Anya Hurwitz
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Anya Hurwitz

Anya Hurwitz is the Executive Director of the Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL) model, an initiative of the Sobrato Family Foundation. SEAL is a preschool through grade 3 model that is being implemented in more than 100 sites across 20 districts throughout California. Dr. Hurwitz has a longstanding commitment to creating the conditions for public schools to meet the diverse needs of their students’ academic and socioemotional development. She has worked as a teacher, school leader, district administrator, and within the educational nonprofit sector.

The early part of Dr. Hurwitz’s career was in New York City, where she helped start a small secondary school in the Bronx and then became a Network Leader within the NYC Department of Education for a diverse group of 24 schools, preschool through early college. In 2010, she moved to northern California and began working as an educational consultant supporting district and school leaders as they planned and implemented strategic reform efforts. Dr. Hurwitz joined the SEAL team in 2014, first as Deputy Director and then taking on the role of Executive Director in 2016.

She holds a doctorate from University of California, Berkeley’s Leadership for Educational Equity Program.

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March 2018

Supporting Dual Language Learner Success in Superdiverse PreK-3 Classrooms: The Sobrato Early Academic Language Model

In early education and care programs where children come from a variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, superdiversity is challenging providers to look beyond traditional approaches to supporting Dual Language Learners. This report examines a well-regarded model for preK-3 professional development. The report highlights promising practices and key adaptations of the model for use in in multilingual, multicultural classrooms.