Teaching across language and culture: multilingual learners, culturally responsive teaching, and reducing bias.
Multilingual learners are learning content and the language of school at the same time.
Open workshop →WorkshopStudents learn best when they feel seen and when their backgrounds are treated as assets, not obstacles.
Open workshop →WorkshopStudents newly arrived from other countries, including refugees, face learning a new language, a new school system, and often a hard journey, all at once.
Open workshop →WorkshopResearch consistently finds that discipline and special-education referrals are not always applied evenly, patterns of disproportionality show up across groups.
Open workshop →WorkshopStudents bring a rich range of religious and cultural backgrounds, and small, thoughtful practices, around holidays, dietary needs, dress, scheduling, and simple respect, help every student feel they belong, without singling anyone out or making assumptions.
Open workshop →WorkshopSome multilingual students have been in U.S.
Open workshop →WorkshopStudents who are both English learners and have a disability are among the most complex to serve well, starting with the hard question of telling a language difference from a disability.
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