Elizabeth Fralicks, MEd
Elizabeth Fralicks has spent the majority of her career providing support for district, school, and teacher leadership teams to design and implement effective English Learner instructional programs. She has accomplished this through thorough, targeted data collection from assessments, observations, and strategic sampling, and effective teacher training with the clear intent to lift and leverage the assets of English Language Learners, students that were immigrant or refugees, as well as their families.
Ms. Fralicks taught in public school classrooms for fourteen years with an emphasis on serving students learning English. She applied her teaching expertise when she transitioned to a large urban school district-level position, where she supported secondary schools to address the instructional needs of students learning English while simultaneously meeting legal requirements for ELD instructional programs. This led to a magnet high school vice principal/head counselor position with the purpose of ensuring that students learning English and other minority students had access to high level, rigorous coursework. Eventually, this work developed into district ELL leadership positions where Ms. Fralicks oversaw ELL programs at more than 28 middle and high schools.
Ms. Fralicks is semi-retired and lives in Fresno with her husband and four dogs, where she enthusiastically plans wilderness experiences, be they on foot, horseback, or even in her garden.