This October, I'm hosting a new workshop offering over at EventBrite. This workshop came to be after seeing patterns in the types of questions I'm asked by leaders and practitioners alike.  Here are just a few I've been asked recently.

• Is it this or is it that?
• Should we this, or should we that?
• How do we know if....?
• What do we do about....?

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Essential Question: How might an ecosystem approach strengthen student support teams work with our multilingual populations of international schools?

Agenda:

• From fuzzy and vague "support" to Content and Language Integrated Learning within a larger Multilingual Ecosystem.
• Bridging the Multilingual Ecosystem stance with the MTSS framework
• Being Multilingual is not cause for intervention.
• The Harm of Binary Thinking: When adult collaboration gets in the way of serving multilingual students.
• International School Case Studies: An Ecosystem Approach to Your Scenarios

I don't pretend to have all the answers about the complexities of student learning and building equitably school systems. But I do think this framework helps us build our advocacy muscles so that we can ensure our systems are ensuring our multilingual learners are thriving in international schools.

Grab you tickets today.

"Since the dawn of language, conversations have been powerful teachers." This quote by Jeff Zwiers, highlights the idea that whomever is doing the talking is doing the learning. Yet, multilingual learners are often denied access to curiosity and playful, discussion-rich classrooms because of misconceptions about language learning and bias
How do we design for equitable discourse so that mlls can thrive in the #inquiry classroom?

Designing for discourse in the classroom is a keystone to fostering critical thinking, acquiring a new language, sparking creativity, understanding different perspectives, and developing an empathetic learning community. Designing for discourse is also a radical resistance to what Paulo Freire describes as the "banking method" of education.

We will unpack design elements that nurture equitable discourse for our multilingual learners in the inquiry classroom.

To register follow this link.  

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.