Proud to honor the Indigenous language of K’che’ a Mayan Indigenous language. My family in Guate still speaks it, although it is slowly fading away. Remember our roots and honor it #indigenouslanguageday

Loved our Back to school BBQ today. Outside for great food, great company and fantastic giveaways. We all won something good at the raffle 😎 #Teamtime #BackToSchool2024

Our Bilingual team is first class.🏆Overjoyed to have our materials arrive just in time to hand to our 40 Elementary ESL teachers at the end of their PD today.They were so happy 📕📝It’s going to be a great school year! #assetsbased #BilingualRPS205 Carly Spina Emily Fɾαɳƈιʂ

🌟 Researching programming for our 7,000+ bilingual learners! This morning's read was a good one-highly recommend! 📚 With 1,000 Newcomers we’re focusing on scheduling, graduation, and transcript reviews at the Secondary level.💡 #Newcomers #SecondaryEd #Multilingual

Excited to present at at TABE 2024! 🎉 Join Acentos en Acción to make SLA teaching fun & easy! 🧠✨ Big shout out to WEPA Libros for providing books 📚 for raffles & hands-on activities! 🙌 #TABE2024 #SLA #BilingualEducation #WEPA #MultilingualLearners

#TABE2024 here we come! Can’t wait to share and learn alongside everyone there. #bilingualeducation #duallanguage #DLBE #emergentbilingual #teachers TABE

Great insight.. Let’s be KIND

Every table at #ILBilingualDirectors24 is the cool kids table. 😎

So proud of these former and current coordinators! I have learned so much from each of them. #Ilbilingualdirectorsmeeting2024 𝕁𝕠𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕠 𝕁𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕒𝕟 Juan Suarez Edgar De La Mora McHenry School District 15 Illinois Resource Center (IRC)

These peeps fill my bucket. Love my tribe! #ilbilingualdirectorsmeeting2024 Amber Bowgren Ryan Zak Edgar De La Mora 𝕁𝕠𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕠 𝕁𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕒𝕟 Juan Suarez McHenry School District 15

Dr. Maureen Cassidy Amber Bowgren Ryan Zak Edgar De La Mora 𝕁𝕠𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕠 𝕁𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕒𝕟 Juan Suarez McHenry School District 15 All powerful leaders and advocates for our multilingual learners!

📚🌍 RPS 205 at the IRC Multilingual Directors Conference! Connecting with colleagues and soaking up so much 🙌 A huge thanks to IRC for the incredible guest speaker Montserrat Garibay 🎤✨ #RPS205 #MultilingualEducation #ILBilingualDirectors24 Dr. Maureen Cassidy

Amidst the horrific rhetoric demonizing our Haitian neighbors, we're highlighting stories that celebrate, uplift, & honor Haitian history, culture & community. This list from @sociajusticebk includes excellent titles for early, middle grade & YA readers. socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/hait…

That’s a wrap! ✨Connections, collaborations, and so much learning. 🙌 Thanks Illinois Resource Center (IRC) for a great conference . The keynote was 🔥💪🏽ready to start building our pathways of Biliteracy at RPS205! 🚀📖 #ILBilingualDirectors24 #Biliteracy #Collaboration #IRCConference

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Need a little Sunday encouragement? With this list, from T Melanie Korach🇨🇦, you can take your pick!

Bilingual Dept is going for the Gold 🏅 with an Olympic theme! We reflect on the history of Bilingual & ESL programs, and share our hopes as immigrants & speakers of other languages 🌍. Every role matters! 🙌Thanks Jessica Jacobson for the creativity on the logo #Teamwork #Bilingual

Illinois Library Association 2024 annual conference was a blast! 🎉 We had an amazing time connecting with passionate librarians! 💬 No worries—catch us next week at @WIDA_uw! & our books 📚 will be highlighted on 𝕁𝕠𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕠 𝕁𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕒𝕟 & Kim Kennedy, Ph.D. session on acentos in TABE !

Delving into this gem that we recieved at the #ILBilingualDirectors24 Conference. Great idea for planning for our pathways to the Seal of Biliteracy through our various Language programs. #Letsdothis #BilingualSeal 🏅

Only 3 days until TABE presentation with Kim Kennedy, Ph.D. ! 🎉 Can’t wait to explore ways to teach Spanish acentuación across grade levels, featuring some amazing books from ¡WEPA! líbros ™ . See you there! #SpanishEducation #Bilingual