Pamela Wrigley, Senior Education Specialist

Pamela Wrigley is a specialist in English language learning and migrant education. She began her career in education as a secondary Spanish teacher. She taught Spanish for 13 years in public and private schools. In 1987 Pamela became a bilingual Resource Specialist for the Virginia Migrant Education Program and has focused on promoting ELL and literacy programs that address the needs of English language learners, migrant students and their families. She also has an extensive amount of experience training teachers and developing resources in the area of research-based instructional and assessment strategies that boost the achievement of English language learners.

Pamela has conducted workshops and provided technical assistance to special educators, administrators and teachers on strategies and policies that ensure appropriate identification of ELLs for special education services. She has also engaged in technical assistance to SEAs and LEAs in all aspects of ESL and migrant program design, implementation, and evaluation. She has helped to guide six states through the intensive comprehensive needs assessment (CNA) process which has helped them to improve the quality of their data use, service delivery, and program evaluation.

Expertise: English language learners, comprehensive needs assessment, migrant education

Email: pgwrig@worldnet.att.net