 I’ve had the pleasure of co-writing with Mayuko Perkins, an amazing MLL specialist at an international school in Asia. We wrote about our reflections and the questions we need to be asking the systems that serve our multilingual learners. "The next brave step in cultivating a multilingual ecosystem is the act of shedding these biases and daring to try something that feels unfamiliar and perhaps scary. That’s the thing about radical dreaming, it invites us to build something that is new and founded on principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice." Thank you to The International Educator for providing international educators the platform to share their insights.
To read the full article, head on over to TIE's website.
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 🌄 Change.
📈 Growth. 🖌️Craftsmanship. 🌏 Community. This is what the MLL Ecosystem Project is all about. 🌟 August cohorts forming now! Book an exploratory call today.  Catch me at the 54th Annual International Conference for the National Association of Bilingual Education . I'm excited to be sharing two pre-recorded presentations on two of my favorite ideas 🌵🐝in serving multilingual learners.
Check them out. I'd love to hear your thoughts.  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.
Essential Question: How might an ecosystem approach strengthen student support teams work with our multilingual populations of international schools? Agenda:
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.  Quality, research based, and FUN professional learning should be accessible and affordable. Here are my upcoming professional learning online workshops for Fall 2024. Some old favorites, some new offerings I'll share more info about the agenda closer to each date, but wanted to share the big picture for the semester.
Head on over to my Event Brite page for more info and to grab your tickets. Newsletter subscribers, check your September newsletter for a discount code! Just a quick note: these times really cater to the time zones in Asia, where I work with a lot of educators. However, if you are in another time zone and there is demand, I'm happy to offer these workshops again in that range of time zones. Just reach out! |