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On April 18, 2016 the sun rose brightly over Capitol Hill, shinning a ray of hope as Congressperson Mike Honda submitted H. Res. 690 in the House of Representatives Recognizing and Celebrating April as the first "National Bilingual/Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month." Ten coalition partner organizations, parents, students, board members and staff were represented and provided statements of support at the congratulatory ceremony held on Capitol Hill. This honor was bestowed on NABE because of the invaluable contributions to the efforts nationally to advance educational equity and excellence for bilingual/multilingual English learners.
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"Integrating Dual Language into District Programs: The key to academic enrichment"
July 10: School Visit
July 11-12: Symposium
Registration opening soon; please visit www.nabe-dls.com for more information.
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Welcome to the National Association for Bilingual Education
Since 1975, the National Association for Bilingual Education has been a nonprofit membership organization that works to advocate for educational equity and excellence for bilingual/multilingual students in a global society.
WHAT WE DO:
- Improve instructional practices for linguistically and culturally diverse children.
- Provide bilingual educators with more high-quality professional development opportunities.
- Secure adequate funding for the programs serving limited-English-proficient students.
- Keep the rights of language-minority Americans clearly in focus as states and communities move forward with educational reforms.
Section F. Regional Representation.
For the purposes of nominations and elections of
Regional Representatives, there shall be three regions: East, Central, and West.
- The East region
Shall be comprised of: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Rhode Island,
Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, and West Virginia.
- The Central region
Shall be comprised of: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North
Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.
- The Western region
Shall be comprised of: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington,
Wyoming and the Trust Territories of the Pacific Island
ELECTION TIMELINE
- Ballot Design and layout uploaded to NABE Web page — April 5, 2017
- On-line Voting process begins — May 1, 2017
- Voting Closes and Election results announced — May 22, 2017
- Board announces newly elected officers and post on web — May 29, 2017
Click here to view the NABE Candidate Information Sheet.
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Congratulations to WABE President Carrie Sorensen and her whole team for their outstanding annual conference in Yakima, Washington last week, Thursday, April 19-Saturday, April 22, 2017. This year's conference theme is Inspire Teachers, Empower Students. The event drew over 900 attendees from across the state and included over 70 break-out sessions, 5 sponsors, and 25 exhibitors. Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch and Katie Brown, 2014 Washington State Teacher of the Year, were the keynote speakers. This is WABE's 32nd annual conference. WABE has been a longtime NABE's affiliate.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Escalate English is a language development program designed to help long-term English learners in grades 4–8. Through our language-rich and intellectually challenging experiences, students will increase their proficiency and accelerate their mastery of the academic English language. Sign up today for full 120-day program experience.
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NABE Membership Drive March 20 - June 19!
Click here to for more information. Click here to join.
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Deadline: June 1
Published under the authority of:
Texas Association for Bilingual Education, affiliate of the National Association for Bilingual Education.
The Journal of Bilingual Education Research & Instruction is a peer-reviewed publication focused on improving bilingual education research and teaching practices. For this special issue on Biliteracy Development, The JBERI seeks articles that examine research, pedagogy, policies, theory and cultural issues that impact biliteracy development. We seek qualitative and quantitative studies that can contribute to the growing knowledge base on biliteracy instruction. Manuscripts that focus on best
practices are also welcome. The JBERI will publish 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.
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We are accepting proposals for short papers (15 mins.) to be presented at the NABE 2018 Research & Evaluation Special Interest Group at the annual NABE Conference in Albuquerque, NM, to be held March 1-3. Our SIG theme this year is:
Researcher and Teacher Perspectives on Language and Identity
Please send by email attachment an abstract of 150-250 words and a short summary of 50 words (in MS Word) of your proposal, following the guidelines below, to Dr. Sherry Taylor, our SIG Chair at: Sherry.Taylor@ucdenver.edu
While we would especially appreciate research related to our theme, all data-based, theoretical, and/or pedagogically focused papers on bilingualism, second/foreign language acquisition, intercultural communication, language and technology, or language assessment are welcome.
*Be sure to include the language(s) involved in your study or discussion
The deadline for submission to the Research and Evaluation SIG is July 1. A notice of acceptance status (accepted, waitlisted, not accepted) will be sent by Aug. 31.
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Taylor & Francis Online
Free Access to Bilingual Research Journal Richard Ruiz Special Issue.
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Smithsonian Latino Center
The Young Ambassadors Program is a national program for graduating high school seniors aimed at fostering the
next generation of Latino leaders in the arts, sciences, and humanities via the Smithsonian Institution and its resources. YAP is a college preparatory and leadership program encouraging participants to explore various academic and career opportunities through the lens of the Latino experience. For the past ten years, this program has received major and continued support from Ford Motor Company Fund.
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La Cosecha
La Cosecha is the largest dual language conference in the country with over 2400 in attendance in 2016. The conference brings together educators, students, parents, researchers and supporters of dual language education. Organized by teachers, for teachers, La Cosecha 2017 will once again provide the opportunity to highlight classroom best practices, share research findings, and honor and celebrate our families, communities and those who have gone before us — our ancestors.
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Koror, Republic of Palau: July 17-21
Educators from all over the Pacific Region will be in attendance.
Participants click here.
Click here for the website.
Click here for information.
The 30th Pacific Educational Conference is co-hosted by the Republic of Palau – Ministry of Education, Palau Community College, and Pacific Resources for Education and Learning. This biennial event, last held in 2015, brought together over 1,000 participants and featured 110 workshops and seven plenary sessions.
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Patmora
Children's Day, Book Day, in Spanish, El día de los niños, el día de los libros, is a year-long commitment to celebrating all our children and to motivating them and their families to be readers, essential in our democracy. Often known as Día, meaning day for our daily commitment, this literacy initiative is a collaboration of national and state library and literacy organizations, educators, presses and readers creatively striving to share bookjoy and its importance. Culminating April Children's Day, Book Day celebrations that unite communities, April book fiestas, are held in libraries, schools, homes, parks, etc., often on or near April 30. DIA is also used to mean Diversity In Action.
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Spanish Language Pedagogy for Biliteracy Programs takes biliteracy professionals into the knowledge base and strategies for effective Spanish language arts instruction. Dr. Mora’s book and MoraModules Book Companion Website together provide research-based and practical teacher education for bilingual teacher candidates and professional development for active biliteracy teachers.
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GEEO
Founded in 2007, Global Exploration for Educators Organization is a 501c3 non-profit organization that has sent over 1600 teachers abroad on adventurous travel programs. With GEEO educators can earn professional development credits and optional graduate credit while seeing the world. GEEO's trips are 7 to 21 days in length and are designed and discounted to be interesting and affordable for teachers. In addition to amazing tour leaders, many of the programs are accompanied by university faculty that are experts on the destination. The deposit is $250 for each program and then the final payment is due 60 days before departure.
GEEO also provides teachers educational materials and the structure to help them bring their experiences into the classroom. The trips are open to all nationalities of K-12 and university educators, administrators, retired educators, as well as educators' guests.
GEEO is offering the following travel programs for 2017: Bali/Lombok, Bangkok to Hanoi, Costa Rica, Eastern Europe, The Galapagos Islands, Greece, Iceland, India/Nepal, Bhutan, Ireland, Armenia/Georgia, Multi-Stan, Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Peruvian Amazon, Peruvian Andes, Southern Africa, Vietnam/Cambodia, and the Balkans. The registration deadline is June 1, but space is limited and many programs will be full well before the deadline.
Detailed information about each trip, including itineraries, costs, travel dates, and more can be found at www.geeo.org. GEEO can be reached 7 days a week, toll-free at 1-877-600-0105 between 9 a.m.-9 p.m. EST.
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Scheduled for Albuquerque Convention Center on March 1-3, 2018. Pre-Conference starts on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018.
Language Magazine
A new study, titled "Late Bilinguals Are Sensitive to Unique Aspects of Second Language Processing: Evidence from Clitic Pronouns Word Order," asks whether English speakers who become highly proficient at a late age in Spanish can understand grammatical constructions that are present in Spanish but not in English. The study hinges on the longstanding question of whether or not adults who acquire a second language after the highly sensitized time of childhood can understand complex grammatical structures of their nonnative language.
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District Administration Magazine
When beginning kindergarten, Latino students are three months behind in math literacy when compared to their white peers, says a 2017 study conducted by Child Trends, a nonprofit research organization that works to improve the lives children and families. The study, "Making Math Count More for Young Latino Children," cites poverty in Latino households as a cause, and says these young students will fall farther behind if the problem isn't addressed in the classroom.
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Brookings Institute
Is it possible to summarize a school's performance, fairly and accurately, with a single rating? Schools are complex organizations that serve a variety of purposes, and measuring their progress toward these goals is notoriously tricky. Can we really say that this school is a "B+" and that school down the street is a "D"? Should we? Education policymakers across the country are grappling with these questions as states develop their plans to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act. Eleven states have submitted plans to the Department of Education already, providing a first glimpse at how states are handling the thorny issue of summative performance measures.
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Education Week
States and school districts are girding for a little-known but tricky piece of the Every Student Succeeds Act: the requirement that states report per-pupil spending for all their schools, a level of detail unknown even to many district superintendents. Without specific federal guidance so far, state finance officials must untangle the myriad — and sometimes obscure — costs behind school operations to come up with a single figure for each of the nation's 99,000 public schools.
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EdSource
School districts that fail to address the anxieties experienced by undocumented students as a result of federal immigration policies of the Trump administration may be violating their students' constitutional rights to a meaningful education, said Thomas Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Founded in 1968, the Los Angeles-based MALDEF is a leading civil rights organization advocating on behalf of Latinos in California and nationally. Saenz was referring to the widespread anxieties experienced by children who are either themselves undocumented or have one or both parents who are, and fear that they or their parents will be deported.
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New York University via Science Daily
Children from poor neighborhoods are less likely to have complex language building opportunities both in home and at school, putting them at a disadvantage in their kindergarten year, finds a new study.
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The Washington Post
The number of minority teachers more than doubled in the United States over a 25-year period but still represent less than 20 percent of the country's elementary and secondary school teaching force, a new statistical analysis of data shows. And black teachers, while seeing an increase in the number of teachers, saw a decline in the percentage they make up of the overall teaching force. From 1987 to 1988 and 2011 to 2012, researchers found that the teaching force became much larger, by 46 percent; more diverse, though minority teachers remain underrepresented; and less experienced. There were, however, large differences among different types of schools and academic subjects.
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Education Week
The Every Student Succeeds Act sought to give states flexibility to put their own stamp on accountability systems, including setting their own goals for student achievement and moving beyond reading and math test scores in rating student and school performance. So how far along are states in taking advantage of all that new running room? The details are just starting to emerge from the handful of plans submitted to the U.S. Department of Education, which reveal a varied policy picture across a wide range of accountability categories.
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Language Magazine
In classrooms that include both English language learners and native English speakers, educators face the unique challenge of teaching these two groups at the same time. When teaching regular-paced lessons in English, educators can struggle with how to ensure their ELL students are understanding. However, due to funding issues, it may not be possible to give these students the specialized language instruction they need separately from the mainstream class. Given this dilemma, many schools have chosen to take a different route when it comes to the inclusive classroom.
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Education Week
Did you miss games of chicken over keeping the federal government open? Your happy days might be here again. On April 28, the measure Congress approved late last year to keep the government funded for fiscal 2017 — known in Beltway lingo as a "continuing resolution" — will expire. Without it, major parts of the government will cease to operate. President Donald Trump's administration has sent lawmakers a spending proposal that would cover the rest of fiscal 2017, which ends Sept. 30, including major cuts to Title II grants for teaching programs.
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Education Week
The number of English language learners in our schools is growing and, at the same time, both the Every Student Succeeds Act and the Common Core standards are raising the bar for academic expectations. This two-part series will be examining how teachers can best assist ELLs develop academic language and skills in writing argumentative essays, both which are highlighted in the Common Core.
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The Associated Press
The good news: American high school students are generally satisfied with their lives. But many of their peers in other countries are happier. Asked to rank their life satisfaction on a scale from 0 to 10, American 15-year-olds gave an average mark of 7.4, according to a study conducted by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. American students scored close to the average of 7.3 among OECD's 35 member countries. But students in some member countries are doing markedly better: an average Mexican high schooler rated life satisfaction at 8.2 out of 10.
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Chicago Tribune
Angela Fonseca came to the United States six years ago from Jalisco, Mexico. Since then, she married and is now the mother of two. She's here legally on a green card, but she's been unhinged about her future since President Donald Trump took office in January and began signing travel ban orders that barred even some legal residents from entering the country. Two federal judges have blocked the bans, for now. For the past year, Fonseca been studying English and learning American history at the Neighbors Educational Opportunities adult education program in Portage.
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EdSurge
When asked what technology he used while learning English, Bryan Estrada fidgeted nervously as he contemplated whether or not he should share a personal story with a stranger. "There was this girl...," stammered Estrada, a native Spanish-speaking sophomore from Yes Prep High School in Texas. "My friends pushed me, even though I was really nervous, and we started texting," he continued. "That was the first thing I did to learn English."
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