Delighted to be presenting some workshops at FOBISIA English as an Additional Language Conference.  I will be presenting three different workshops.

• A Linguistic Pedagogy of Love: Nurturing Dynamic Multilingualism with Strength Based Asset Approach
• Strengthening Our Instructional Craftsmanship: Our Pedagogical Promise to Multilingual Learners
• The Right to Curiosity and Voice: Learner Agency in Multilingual Classrooms
  

Three different workshop topics, yet what do they all have in common? Holding students at the center of our everyday decisions.  

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.

Here is the link to register! I look forward to seeing you at this event!

I will be presenting at the ELLSA PD Day this April.  My talk is called "We Make the Road by Walking: Deconstructing Deficit Systems and Mindsets-One Co-taught Classroom at a Time."  

Workshop Description: When our perceived co-teaching is steeped in medical model deficit mindsets of "support and services" we will always be bound by "caseloads" and fear of emergent bilinguals. When our co-teaching embraces shifting mindsets, capacity building translanguaging pedagogies, multilingual ecologies, and scaffolding with promise we have the opportunity to transform ourselves and our classes with love. Many school structures and systems build upon unconscious and conscious bias reinforce inequitable educational experiences for our multilingual students in the classroom. And yet...the charge is real. As EAL specialists how do we make grassroots change to system one co-taught classroom at a time. This presentation will explore multilingual mindsets, co-planning, structures, and storytelling methods to make the road by walking.

Very excited to be partnering with MiniPD. This month they are looking at leveraging languages in the classroom in order to best serve their multilingual students.  I will be participating in a roundtable discussion on April 21, 2022. Register today!