Every School a Language Friendly School:
Creating Environments for Language Learner Success
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Every School a Language Friendly School:
Creating Environments for Language Learner Success
Date:
Friday, January 31, 2025 to
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Location:
Modesto, CA
Time:
4:00 pm to 7:30pm on Friday,
8:00 am to 4:00 pm on Saturday
We invite Central Valley educators to join us for a day of learning, collaborating, networking, and celebrating as we explore the critical importance of investing in the creation of language friendly environments that honor and welcome every child’s language and culture in ensuring success for Emergent Multilingual Learners. Join us in learning how we can transform our pedagogy and practice to activate and make visible the genius of our students and to fully engage their unlimited potential.
Multilingualism and the California English Learner Roadmap
Laurie Olsen, Founding Director and Strategic Advisor to the Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL) PreK-3 Initiative
The Language Friendly Schools Movement
Ellen-Rose Kambel, Executive Director, Ritu Foundation for Multilingual Learning
Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Promoting Multilingualism through Transformative Leadership
Ana DeGenna, Superintendent, Oxnard School District
AI & Diverse Language Learners (David Calvo)
Transforming Newcomer Programs (Sam Finn, Lindsey Bird, & Amalia Herrera)
Academic Language Development (Charlene Fried & José Luis Pérez)
Transformative Mathematics Pedagogy (Matt Haber)
Becoming a Language Friendly School (Ellen-Rose Kambel & Emmanuelle Le Pichon=Vorstman)
Unsilencing Language (Liliana Sánchez)
Graduate Profiles & Emergent Multilingual Learners (Roman Stearns)
Email: franciscasanchez53@gmail.com