Conference intro: Join Dr. Andrea Honigsfeld for a weekend conference focused on a multilingual equity agenda in international schools. Through carefully-designed sessions, Andrea will guide participants through timely paradigm shifts regarding multilingualism, bridging research and practice and preparing participants for strategic advocacy.

Audience: K-12 educators, coaches, administrators

Takeaways:

Participating in this conference, educators

1. explore how ditching monolingualism as a norm leads to identity-affirming policies and practices for multilingual learner populations 

2. consider how inclusive models have the dual responsibility of facilitating multilingual learners’ content learning and academic language development and acquisition

3. examine how a language-focused approach to content instruction is more than vocabulary and sentence starters

4. probe how the collective voices of multilingual learners, their teachers and school leaders empower a commitment to transformative action

5. envision how evolving dispositions, knowledge and skills enable future-ready, multilingual ‘schoolscapes’ from the inside out