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Reader’s Workshops in Spanish or English
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Now your school can provide effective Reader’s Workshops in bilingual and dual language classes.
- Fiction and nonfiction at the right levels for today’s wide range of K-5 students increase access and achievement.
- Responsive Teacher Toolkit helps educators observe reading behaviors, target instruction, and guide progress.
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Become a traveling avatar and get ready for an interactive game as you complete your passport and board your plane! Change your currency at the airport and you are ready to explore the wonders of the Spanish-Speaking world. Try to collect the most frequent flyer miles as you explore each country!
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NABE
Let me introduce myself. My name is Flora Sánchez and I have been a bilingual educator for 31 years. I had the honor of being selected as the NABE Bilingual Teacher of the Year in 2004. I have always been proud of this accomplishment and have been a supporter of NABE's mission and vision throughout my time as a bilingual educator. Now, I have retired from teaching, but I continue to try to give back to the field and to the children and families we serve.
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NABE
Call for Paper
Deadline: March 15
Published under the authority of:
National Association for Bilingual Education
The NABE Journal of Research and Practice is an edited volume of scholarly publications that serves as an archival record for the National Association for Bilingual Education. It is a peerreviewed publication that seeks articles that examine research, pedagogy, policies, theory, and cultural issues that impact bilingual education, teaching, and learning. Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies that can contribute to the growing knowledge base on bilingual education models and best practices are especially welcome. Position papers, and articles focused on applied educational
research and research infused classroom practices are also welcome. The NJRP publishes articles written in either English or Spanish. The Editorial Board will consider clarity and timeliness of the content in judging the quality of the manuscripts. Beginning on January 2019, the Journal will be published by Taylor and Francis Group, and will be indexed.
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Eventbright
Come with your friends and family to the one and only Multilingual Education Fair for the DC region! Co-sponsored by the key education institutions of the District, the fair features 70 exhibitors covering 17 languages to allow you to explore and deepen your linguistic and cultural skills, and learn about careers where languages are crucial. Resources for young professionals, families and educators include language and culture organizations, embassies, language classes for all ages, apps, books, tutors, assessments, travel abroad programs, university programs, dual language programs, after school programs, daycares and multilingual recruiters.
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Joint National Committee for Languages
At the start of every new year, language professionals like you — educators, administrators, business owners, interpreters, translators, researchers — gather on Capitol Hill to educate Congress on the vital importance of languages for the United States.
Join your colleagues this Feb. 14-15 in Washington, D.C. Together, we can reshape the bilingual future of our nation.
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ILA
64th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association
Centro de Estudios del Lenguaje en Sociedad,
Universidad Nacional de San Martín Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 30 to June 1
Call for Papers
Major theme: Language and Territory
The International Linguistic Association has held conferences in many countries around the world, including one in Latin America, where in 1972, the 18th Annual Conference took place in Arequipa, Perú. Now, after several decades have passed, the ILA will return to Latin America in 2019 for its 64th Annual Conference to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the International Year of Indigenous Languages (proclaimed by the United Nations), the central theme of this conference, language and territory, will explore the current debates around local, national and global languages and literacies; the ways in which linguistic borders have been defined, enforced, and inherited, but also challenged, through time, by means of geographical, political and social justifications; and how these practices are being re-examined today.
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LMU
Registration is now open for the 5th Edition of the Colloquium, which will be held at the Centro Cultural Palacio de la Audiencia in Soria, Spain, July 3-5. The event, organized by the Loyola Marymount University School of Education (Los Angeles, CA), with the support of the Department of Culture of the City of Soria, welcomes professionals, college students, and any individual interested in these issues. Participants attending at least 85% of the 20 contact hours will receive a certificate of attendance from the LMU School of Education.
The Call for Proposals (English and Spanish) is now open
Please visit www.languagecultureidentity.com and click "Proposal Submission"
Deadline for submissions: Jan. 31 at 5 p.m. California Time
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Office of Equal Opportunity
Deputy Chief of Dual Language Programs
Associate or Full Professor - Ph.D. Program in Urban Education & Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures — The City University of New York
Tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor — Bilingual/Biliteracy Education — University of Texas at El Paso in Texas
Executive Director Special Education — Springfield or Chicago Office
Executive Director Equity and Access — Springfield or Chicago Office
Language Magazine
Historically, in the U.S., deficit perspectives about linguistically diverse students have dominated the conversation. Fortunately, the rise of dual-language programs is helping to reframe the dominant narrative. These programs center on helping students become bilingual, biliterate and culturally competent. Because of these goals, DL teachers must not only know about strategies and practices that promote bilingualism and biliteracy but also how to think about their own perspectives and teaching practices that will influence the way they prepare students for success in a global economy and society.
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eSchool News
Just a little more than half (55 percent) of teachers in a recent survey say their schools translate parent correspondence into other languages, despite federal data showing that almost 5 million U.S. students are English language learners. The survey from communication app ClassDojo highlights the communication challenges teachers and families face each day due to language barriers. Of the teachers who say their school does translate communications, 36 percent say they rely on a teacher who speaks the language to do it, and 16 percent use a professional translation service.
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THE Journal
In the United States, 50 percent of students identify as being a person of color, while only 20 percent of teachers identify themselves as such, according to a U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics study. Forty percent of public schools don't even have a single teacher of color. A new report from the Council of Chief State School Officers looks to shift the paradigm to allow for more diversity in teaching and free flow of ideas that demonstrate culturally responsive practices.
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THE Journal
The National Center for Education Statistics has produced its latest "first look" report, providing interesting data on state-level revenues and expenditures in public schools, covering fiscal year 2016 (school year 2015-2016). While the country took in $678 billion in revenues, up four percent from the previous year, its overall spending on elementary and secondary education across the nation increased by just 2.9 percent year over year, compared to a bump of 3.2 percent in the previous year. Total revenues per student averaged $13,474 on a national basis, up 3.9 percent from the previous year. Most states saw increases of at least one percent.
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Language Magazine
A new review of existing research finds that receptive language skills — the ability to understand information — are improved by the equivalent of eight months of development when preschool youngsters read with someone who cares for them. Led by James Law, professor of Speech and Language Sciences at the U.K.'s Newcastle University, a team of experts carried out a systematic review of reading intervention studies from the past 40 years, using either a book or electronic readers, and where reading was carried out with a parent or carer.
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 After decades of largely ineffective attempts by American teachers to raise salaries and improve teaching conditions, American teachers have changed their ways. In 2018, they were organizing, striking, or simply leaving the profession. Until recently, polarized state governments have been unable or unwilling to address the problem. Parents are often unaware of the seriousness of the crisis, which could leave many American students without access to an effective education.
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Wicked Local
The new integrated system for English language learners at the McGlynn Middle School has led to behavioral and educational improvements. Recent changes to the teaching model for English Language Learners at the middle school level have led to educational improvements for native and non-native English speakers, school officials announced at a school committee meeting.
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The Charlotte Observer
For the first time ever, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has more than 20,000 immigrant students who need help learning English. The 21,145 English learners in CMS are by far the largest concentration in North Carolina. Wake County, the state's biggest district, has only 14,540, and most of the state's districts don't even have 20,000 students. The growing numbers come with costs: CMS is spending more than $30 million this year on the department that serves those students, compared with just over $20 million five years ago.
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The Associated Press
The setting is different, but the complaints of teachers who are out on strike in Los Angeles are echoing those heard in walkouts nationwide. Unlike protests that closed schools last spring in states including West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Arizona, the strike that began Monday is unfolding in a liberal-leaning state and one of the country's biggest cities. But it highlights common challenges facing educators across the country. Public education funding in many states has not returned to levels seen before the Great Recession, schools are facing teacher shortages tied to low pay and the pressures of standardized testing and teacher evaluations, and the rise of alternatives to traditional public schools is blamed for eroding already scarce resources.
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Great Falls Tribune
Lawmakers heard a bill that would provide state funds for school district programs helping English learners. Rep. Sharon Stewart Peregoy, D-Crow Agency, told members of the House Education Committee that House Bill 18 came from the State-Tribal Relations Committee, and would help students who have limited English proficiency to the point where it is hurting their academic performance. She said the largest number of the 3,000 students in that category are Native American, making up 2 percent of the total student population in Montana.
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MindShift
Educators all over the world are thinking creatively about ways to transform the traditional education system into an experience that will propel students forward into the world ready to take on its complex challenges. Competency-based education has piqued the interest of many communities because of its promise to make learning a more personal experience for students. In a competency-based model, children move through school based on their ability to demonstrate proficiency in skills and content, not by how many hours they spent sitting in class.
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By Sharona Sommer, CPC (commentary)
 What does it really mean to enable versus support your student? Generally speaking, enabling refers to the practice of over-helping, as in rescuing your student from uncomfortable or challenging situations without considering if they are able to handle it themselves. When you support your student, you provide space for them to learn from their mistakes and build the necessary coping skills to handle life's twists and turns. It is your job as parents and caregivers to provide positive encouragement along the path to independence but not to pave the road for them before they get there.
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The Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle
Delaware officials unveiled a plan to provide more funding for low-income students and students whose native language is not English. The proposal calls for an additional $60 million over three years for educating poor students and students designated as English Language Learners. The plan will remove Delaware from the ranks of only a handful of states that do not provide extra funding for those student populations.
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Education Week
It's hard to find agreement on many big issues in education. But one position that's pretty popular — shared by people as different as Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos — is the belief that children's education and opportunities shouldn't be determined by their ZIP code. So what's the best way of loosening, or breaking, geography's impact on K-12?
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Missoulian
Lawmakers introduced bills to extend a pair of Native language preservation programs and supplement federal grants for programs serving English learner students with state and local funding. The bills come out of the State-Tribal Relations Interim Committee, which met between the 2017 and 2019 sessions, and are supported by the Montana School Boards Association, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation and the Fort Belknap Indian Community Council, among others.
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