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. 

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.

Why might you find me at a Learning Support conference?  Excited to be joining professionals from the Japan Learning Support Network for my talk "Neurodiversity and Multilingual Identities: An Ecosystem Approach" on October 28th at St. Mary's International School in Tokyo, Japan. I am also proud that this conference is offering hybrid options to accommodate access needs.

Like so many others, the pandemic shifted my practices of teaching and learning.  As a teacher, I had to figure out ways to ensure students had meaningful, engaging, and interactive learning that nurtured their continued content learning, language acquisition, and connection. As a professional learning facilitator, I had to design for adult learning that was also meaningful, engaging, and interactive-with educators who were equally tired of screens and burning the candles at both ends.  I adapted. I had to.  It was my mission to make online professional learning workshops rich in discussion and resources, while also making it joyful and relationship driven. 

All that being said, it was such a delight to be back in person facilitating in-person professional learning workshops this past month.  It was exciting to dust off some discussion strategies that could not transfer to online spaces. It was equally exciting to integrate new learning from online tools into the in-person spaces.  

Additionally, there are increasing opportunities for hybrid learning, I have a few upcoming this semester. Hybrid professional learning creates access in new and exciting ways. 

How do I juggle the needs of the different spaces? Different learning spaces often need tailored strategies. What is the common thread?  Joyful learning. Laughter.  Reflection and collaborative conversations through cognitive dissonance and growth.  Serving multilingual students is joyful.  Transforming our practices and systems can be too. 

English Language Learner Specialists of Asia (ELLSA) held their professional learning day online. This event was missed after pandemic related hiatus.  Practitioners from international schools across Asia presented on topics they were passionate about that advance our discipline. The entire lineup was great and there was something for everyone. My talk Make the Co-Teaching Road By Walking can be found above.  

Have further questions about implementing co-teaching systems at your school?  Want to co-reflect with your co-teacher?  Contact me today to set up a coaching session.