ESL is not an intervention PERIOD

Tower of Talk: How can we support our scholars as Language Architects? #wsfcsMLs Clemmons MS

Tower of Communication: words that summarize the best ideas at our table! wsfcsMLs Clemmons MS

Dr. Ayanna Cooper asking the easy questions with complex answers for leadership teams #WIDA2022.

Dr. Ayanna Cooper asks simple questions with complex answers at #WIDA2022. She also asks the complex question: What barriers will I be instrumental in taking down in pursuit of Justice for ELs?

“There can be joy in our accents and joy in the way we speak. I decided to become multilingual on purpose.” -#WIDA2022 keynote Maria Hinojosa 🥑

I keep these words in mind when I teach or model teaching.

educatorflourishing.com #TLC2022 Christian van Nieuwerburgh shows us a model of educator flourishing.

A great session with Diane Kue at the #ELLevationSummit. I look forward to learning more about her math and language routines. Ellevation Education Seidlitz Education

April’s Carolina TESOL’s newsletter is out! 📣 Shoutout to our Ah-Mazing Social/Networking Spring Event speakers You. Won’t. Want. To. Miss. This! Courtney Morgan Tamara Coburn Wendi Pillars @joan_lachance M Gomez de la Torre-MAED Katie Gardner, NBCT Jessica Yauri Cruz 🔗 sites.google.com/carolinatesol.…

Join us!

I want to attend WIDA because of the wealth of information, strategies, and approaches I can bring back to ESL teachers (and other teachers of multilingual learners) in my district and state. It's an exponential opportunity!

Want to learn more about ACCESS All Year: An Equity Approach to Language Assessment Prep? Join me and Jason A. Kemp at the 2024 WIDA Annual Conference! Learn more about #WIDA2024: events.wida.us

Hearing about languages, cultures, communities and voices from Quiara Alegría Hudes at #WIDA2024 🎉🎉

Dancing to the beat of our own drums with Quiara Alegria Hudes at # WIDA2024

"Shakespeare improved the purity of the English language by inventing hundreds of new words, let us invent some too, we got it in us!" - Quiara Alegría Hudes, #WIDA2024 keynote

A beautiful quote from her book My Broken English, Quiara Alegría Hudes reminds us that languages grow through creative revisions. #WIDA2024

Our session was a hit! One educator said this was the best PD session she’s ever been to in her 16-year career. Another signed up for this session with trepidation about a dry topic, but said we were her favorite session. So glad people found it valuable 🥰#WIDA2024

Jason and I shared our plan for equitable ACCESS test prep with #WIDA2024.

So exciting to learn from 🇺🇦 Dr. Ruslana A. Westerlund/Руслана її/her at the #CarolinaTESOL2024 conference: Rethinking Comprehensible Input as Simplification of Complex Language.