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9th Annual Community-Based Heritage Language Schools Conference
October 7, 2022 – October 8, 2022 PDT
9th Annual Community-Based Heritage Language Schools Conference
Keynote speaker:
Ofelia García, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)
Translanguaging Pedagogy in Community-Based Language Schools
Featured panelists:
- Richard Brecht, Ph.D., Co-director, American Councils Research Center
The America’s Languages Portal: Model Programs and Practices Advancing Access and Equity in U.S. Language Education
- Jim Cummins, Ph.D., Professor, University of Toronto
Doing Powerful Things with Language: How Heritage Language Schools and ‘Mainstream’ Education Can Work Together
See the conference webpage for more details and to register! The registration fee for on-site participation covers refreshments, lunch, and a reception. In addition, on-site participants can get together for a meet and greet at a local restaurant on Friday evening.
Please encourage anyone involved with a community-based school teaching your language to participate in the conference. There will be a variety of workshops highly relevant to teachers and administrators:
- Best Practices in Heritage Language Instruction
- The Foundations of Critical Instruction and Project-Based Learning
- Using Technology in Instruction
- Keeping the Heritage Language Alive in the Teenage Years
- Managing an Effective Community-Based School
- Delivering on the Promise of Proficiency: Backward Design and Assessment
- The State and Global Seals of Biliteracy: How to Participate
- International Guidelines for Effective Community-Based Schools
The conference will be hybrid, held both on site at American University and online.
See the conference webpage for more details and to register!