Resources
1. Creating multilingual professional learning communities
A multilingual professional learning community, or MPLC, is organized and directed by practitioners, with a shared mission, vision, and goals for educating multilingual learners. As you’ll see in the webinar, an MPLC brings a multilingual perspective to professional learning communities.
Publication: Caslon Community
Topic: Professional Development
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Caslon Learning featuring The Translanguaging Classroom
Caslon Learning—essentially a web-based interactive book study guide that provides teachers with opportunities to engage with each other around the big ideas of a Caslon publication, look critically and collaboratively at examples of classroom practice, and apply what they learn to their own classes. Key features for each chapter/meeting include 1) guiding questions, 2) key terms, 3) interactive activities, 4) reflection and action questions, and 5) progress monitoring. The system is teacher directed, embedded in practice, transformative by design, and it yields evidence of teacher learning. It can be used in K–12 and university settings.
This professional learning package (Caslon Learning featuring The Translanguaging Classroom) is available for FREE when districts purchase ten or more copies of this title, or when professors adopt this book for their courses.
Publication: The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning
Topic: Professional Development
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Translanguaging Conversation Question 1: What do you mean by the Translanguaging Stance?
Here is a short clip of what you can expect from a series of recorded conversations between the authors of The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning, Ofelia García, Kate Seltzer, and Susana Ibarra Johnson, that will be available through Caslon Learning.
In this 2-minute clip Ofelia García explains the concept of the juntos stance. The juntos stance is informed by three beliefs of joint collaboration:
1. Students’ language practices and cultural understanding encompass those they bring from home and communities, as well as those they take up in schools. These practices and understanding work juntos (together) and enrich each other.
2. Students’ families and communities are valuable sources of knowledge and must be involved in the education process juntos.
3. The classroom is a democratic space where teachers and students juntos co-create knowledge, challenge traditional hierarchies, and work toward a more just society.
Publication: The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning
Topic: Professional Development
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