Professional Learning for Schools Serving Multilingual Learners

Back by Popular Demand: Multilingual Mindsets Workshop

9/11/2023

Last spring, I had the incredible privilege of working with dedicated MLL professionals from around Asia as we explored our mindsets and practices around serving multilingual learners.

Due to popular demand, my old friends at Knowledge Source Institute are offering this 2 day workshop again in Singapore and Thailand.

Multilingualism is the norm around the world, yet too often international schools serve multilingual students with a monolingual bias.

MLL Specialists meet in Chiang Mai, Thailand in May 2023 to learn and grow together.

This workshop will help participants reflect, disrupt, and design to build schools where multilingual children are known, valued, served, and loved. This is one of my most comprehensive workshops. You won't want to miss this one!

For more information and/or to register click on over to Knowledge Source Institute's website.

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Upcoming Workshops with KSI

3/9/2023

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Spring 2023 is bringing some exciting upcoming collaborations and projects. There are so many projects in the works that I can't wait to share with you all. For now, I want to take a moment to share my continued partnership with Knowledge Source Institute this spring.

In April, I'm thrilled to share my newest workshop offering below. It is an expansion of my presentation at the World Inquiry Summit last year and my keynote at the FOBISIA EAL Conference in January. As an educator committed to student centered classrooms, this workshop brings together my two loves; discourse rich classrooms for multilingual students and honoring the strengths, curiosities, and passions of our learners.

advertisement to a Knowledge Source Institute workshop called The Right to Be Curious

Next up is an in person workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It is a two day deep dive into key concepts and practices for serving multilingual learners. We will build community, dream big, and design for linguistic equity.

Whether it be online or in Chiang Mai- I hope to see you soon!

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Our Multilingual Ecology: A Webinar Series

4/11/2022

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Excited to be partnering with Knowledge Source Institute again. This 4 session series is a deep dive into the elements of classrooms that nurture student's multilingual identity AND facilitate language acquisition.

Topics Covered
Session 1: Multilingual Mindsets

Additive v. Subtractive Multilingualism
Making Sense of Language Proficiencies
Our Students’ Multilingual Identities
Translanguaging Pedagogy

Session 2: Facilitating Language Acquisition Through Content

Content Language Integrated Learning
Lesson Design
High Impact Language Targets
Vocabulary and Grammar Strategies

Session 3: Pedagogical Practices

Differentiation
Scaffolding

Session 4: Facilitating Discourse

Discourse of the Disciplines
Discourse Moves
Classroom Discussion Strategies

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Join Me! My Latest Webinar Series

9/13/2021

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Photo by Francesco Gallarotti on Unsplash

I am so delighted to be joining up with Knowledge Source Institute again for this webinar series where we will ask ourselves:

As educators how do we nurture additive multilingualism in our classrooms and schools where students' full identities are seen, valued, and loved?
How do we strategically plan instruction that facilitates language acquisition alongside grade level concept / concept attainment?

We will explore ...

Session 1: Multilingual Mindsets
Session 2: Facilitating Language Acquisition Through Content
Session 3: Pedagogical Practices
Session 4: Facilitating Discourse

Register today! I'd love for you to join me.

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Equity and the Sociocultural Lens

5/15/2021

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I had the pleasure of chatting with Sean and Wes at Smart Data for Schools this week. We chatted about bringing an equity and sociocultural lens to data and assessment. Take a listen!