Dr. Lora Beth Escalante
Educational Consultant
Dr. Lora Beth Escalante has served as a consultant for Seidlitz Education for the past 8 years. She began her educational career 20 years ago as a bilingual elementary teacher. After falling in love with teaching, she earned her Master’s degree from the University in Colorado in Boulder and then her doctoral degree at the University of Texas in San Antonio. Her experience includes inner city and rural schools, English only, bilingual, and dual language education, teaching adult ESL classes, and providing online instruction for university courses.
She has taught ESL in Mexico as part of a teacher cohort with the University of Colorado in Boulder while completing her Master’s in Multicultural Education and ESL. As part of her doctoral studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, she taught ESL in a high school in Harsimran, Thailand. These cultural exchanges with teachers and students from diverse backgrounds furthered her appreciation of language learning. Visiting classrooms in other countries contributes to her multicultural toolbox of teaching ideas that she can share with educators across the state. Like many educators, she embraced the opportunity to expand her technology skills over the past two years.
She continues her passion for supporting teachers who inspire students by providing professional development and instructional coaching in K-12 classrooms. Dr. Escalante strongly believes that each teacher brings unique gifts and experiences to the classroom in order to motivate students. She is the author of the book Motivating ELLs: the 27 teacher-friendly, adaptable activities found in her book help establish a positive classroom environment and maintain a productive learning community.
Dr. Escalante is a life-long second language learner herself and enjoys living bilingually and biculturally in Boerne, Texas with her husband and their three children along with her parents and several sweet farm cats as neighbors.
Author Of
Motivating ELLs: 27 Activities to Inspire & Engage Students
Guides readers through a unique approach of user-friendly strategies that help teachers inspire and connect to their English language learners. This book provides teachers with activities focused on developing meaningful relationships with students—an important key to motivation that is often neglected.
Our staff enjoyed working with Dr. Escalante in the coaching cycle. We’ve received lots of positive and exciting feedback from the participants. We are excited to have her back again soon!
Lora Beth provided a great session tailored to what our teachers needed!
Lora Beth did a phenomenal job. Her presentation was great. Her ability to connect with the participants boosted the motivation to participate fully in the training. The teachers received so many practical activities that they can implement in their classrooms this coming school year.
Lora Beth is an amazing trainer who is very knowledgeable and passionate about her work. We truly appreciate her style of presenting and support.
Amazing working with Dr. Escalante as always! We love her personalization of our trainings to meet our district needs and expectations. Our staff enjoys working with her and is open to receiving the information shared. Her time and commitment is above and beyond and we could not be happier working with her!
Lora Beth is an amazing trainer who is very knowledgeable and passionate about her work. We truly appreciate her style of presenting and support.
As always, Dr. Escalante brought engaging, relevant content to two different groups of learners. She relates so well to our teachers and curriculum coordinators, she guides their learning and provides them with valuable tools they use immediately with teachers, administration, and students. We were beyond please with the PD she provided for us.