Proximal Path is led by Steven Weiss, a former bilingual teacher, instructional coach and site administrator based in California. Steven has decades of experience providing professional development for teachers, instructional coaches and site/district leaders. His work focuses on ways to make systemic changes to the educational policies, programs and instructional practices which support multilingual learners.
Steven's work includes collaborating on the creation of the California English Learner Roadmap, co-facilitating the California Long Term English Learner Community of Practice and co-developing the Academic Language online module as part of the California Collaborative for Learning Acceleration. Steven was a co-author of the white paper Principles for the Design of Mathematics Curricula and Mathematics Language Routines.
In addition to consulting, Steven works as a Senior Program Associate at the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET) within the Stanford Graduate School of Education.
More information about Steven can be found here.