Being #multilingual is a beautiful gift.

Listening to spooky music while we write our spooky stories 👻 LincolnD64 #engageD64

Are you even an ESL teacher ,,,? tiktok.com/t/ZTRptUJeD/

3D printing with our EL students at Lincoln 🖨️🔑👩‍🏫 We had the best time learning how to design and create with the 3D printer. Thank you for facilitating Julie Powell (she/her) #engageD64

Teachers, you hold the power to unlock the full potential of multilingual learners! 🔓 Embrace their unique backgrounds, value their diverse perspectives, & empower them to thrive. Together, let's create a world where every student can reach for the stars. 🌟

Looking for strategies and tech tools to support your EL newcomer students? Check out this article I was honored to co-author with my D64 Park Ridge-Niles colleagues Julie Powell (she/her) & Miss Wypych :

Great start to the year D64 Park Ridge-Niles. Here’s the LincolnD64 opening video that was shown in the cafeteria today. #engageD64 youtu.be/qyJA7Aiuh0w

Fall vibes while we work on identifying parts of speech in our EL classroom 🍂🍁🎃D64 Park Ridge-Niles

You don’t have to know a child’s first language in order to use it in the classroom. Using a child’s first language doesn’t stifle their development of additional languages. Languages build upon one another. 🙌🏽

This amazing⁩ student has demonstrated such effort and perseverance since coming to ⁦LincolnD64⁩ last year that she earned a PAWSitivity award from our team. Here she is with her wonderful EL teacher, ⁦Miss Wypych⁩ . 🙂 #engageD64

Loved the presentation by Carly Spina for middle school core teachers and district 64 ML teachers! Soooo great! 🤩D64 Park Ridge-Niles

Very excited for all the amazing sessions today at IDEAcon 💡 especially Carly Spina presentations 🤩D64 Park Ridge-Niles

So excited to see the awesome Miss Wypych yesterday at #IDEACon!!! 💖💖🙌🏻🙌🏻 I’m obsessed with her earrings!!

It's International Mother Language Day! 💬 The 2024 theme of this U.N.- and UNESCO-recognized day is "Multilingual education – a pillar of learning and intergenerational learning." Learn more about promoting linguistic diversity in your classroom: bit.ly/3SNy42F

April is Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month!!

We're excited to share the news that 2024 National Teacher of the Year Missy Testerman is an #ESL teacher from Tennessee! Congratulations from #TESOL! bit.ly/43K1iVe

The roadmap to equitable learning is here with a one-sheet of our first volume of Accommodations features. Create a custom profile for every student, and every quiz you make is personalized for them without any extra work. Let's do this. 🍎

Thank you SO much to Phyllis Fagell, LCPC for joining our online Curricular Study Group this evening to discuss Middle School Superpowers! We've learned so much reading your book & we appreciated having you join us to answer some questions! #engageD64

EmpowerCon 2024 today with the Illinois Resource Center (IRC) We represented our EL team and district 64 during our summer learning ☀️D64 Park Ridge-Niles #multilinguallearnerteachers