 This month's past workshop was really special. Educators committed to growth, change, and rethinking "what we've always done".
In November I will be hosting a 90 minute, online workshop: Cultivating Flow: Translanguaging for Equitable, Dynamic Multilingual Ecosystems in International Schools. Our essential question: How can our schools and classrooms cultivate a loving, empowering, dynamic, multilingual ecosystem where multilingual students thrive? Head on over to Eventbrite to grab your tickets. I look forward to seeing you there!
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 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.  "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. Grab your tix here on my Event Brite page.  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!  This month I'm really enjoying the young adult novel called In the Beautiful Country by Jane Kuo. It's an engaging story about Anna who immigrates from Taiwan to the United States. It is written with a prose structure in brief, but riveting chapters.
A great read for your learners, as part of a mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors ethos. This book would make an excellent pairing or concept driven book clubs with other immigrant narratives like Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese and one of my favorites Thanhhà Lai's Inside Out and Back Again. |