I seriously love co-teaching. I love the collaboration. I love the design questions. I love the joy. It truly is an adventure!

This workshop will equip participants to answer the following questions:

• What are the roles and responsibilities of EAL specialists and content/grade level teachers?
• How does our co-teaching process reflects the values of dynamic multilingualism?
• What might a research-based, co-taught, lesson plan look like and how does this drive-coteachers' co-planning?
  
  Topics Explored:
• dynamic multilingualism
• roles and responsibilities
• strategic co-planning that facilitates language acquisition

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In bell hooks' All About Love she writes "The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb." This book deeply impacted me when I first read it as a young person in my early 20s. I read this book in parallel to my first year of teaching; a hot mess express to describe it plainly. As an educator, I knew what I valued, I knew what I believed in, yet I consistently found my classroom not in alignment with what I said I valued.  I internalized this often as a young educator and felt a great deal of shame around it. However, I realized I had serious unlearning and learning to do. Despite what many problematic narratives might tell you about schools and our students, the mistakes I was making in my classroom were very much my own.

I have spent the rest of my career working to refine my craft, so that my curricular decisions and pedagogical practices are working to be in  alignment with my values.

As educators we have control over our instructional design. We can work to design experiences for our multilingual learners that are student-centered, driven by inquiry and discussion. We can scaffold these experiences progressively, so that our students feel the pedagogy of hope and horizon rather than restricted by spoon feeding disguised as "supports" that rob them of their intellectual curiosity. We can nurture the incredible power of translanguaging in our classrooms so that our students are seen and empowered.

Did you see what I did there? I bolded all those verbs.  These are just some of the  verbs of a linguistic pedagogy of love.  

Have you signed up for my newsletter yet? In this month's newsletter I will share some concrete strategies for building an asset/strength based muscle; a muscle needed to teach with love.

As educators, we have all heard the statement "every teacher is a language teacher" but what does that really mean? How do we shift that statement from a set of buzzwords to a deeply ingrained value that truly serves multilingual learners?

One of the ways to fulfill the promise "every teacher is a language teacher" is through content and language integrated learning (CLIL). One of the critical elements of CLIL is robust, strategic learning and language targets to drive student learning.


This event will unpack how to write them to guide instructional planning and student learning.

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