Activating Students' Multilingual/ Multicultural Repertoires

1100 H Street,Modesto CA 95354

30 April, 2022

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Intersections of Language, Race, & Power During this day of learning, collaborating, networking, and celebrating, explore the intersection of Language, Race, & Power in the lives and schooling of our students and how activating their multilingual repertoires can open the door to the possibility, promise, and potential of success in and beyond the classroom. Experience the powerful messages of two keynote speakers as well as six dynamic workshop presenters. Engage in district showcase and hot topic table talks. Enhance your knowledge base and skill set to more effectively serve and empower staff, students, and families in your community. Keynote Speakers: DR. JAMILA LYISCOTT Practicing Liberation Literacies: Legitimizing, Honoring, & Activating Students’ Multilingual Repertoires (Working Title) Jamila Lyiscott is an aspiring way-maker, a community-engaged scholar, nationally renowned speaker, and the author of Black Appetite. White Food: Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is the co-founder and co-director of the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research. She is the recipient of the 2019 AERA Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award and the 2019 Scholar-Activist & Community Advocacy Award. She has also been featured in Spike Lee's "2 Fists Up," on NPR, Cosmopolitan, NowThis, and many other media outlets nationally and internationally. FRANCISCA S. SÁNCHEZ We Are Made of Stars (Working Title) Francisca Sánchez is a poet, “word weaver,” long-time educator, and former English Learner. She has been writing poetry for five decades, but only within the last decade has she begun to take her poetry public. In 2013, she published When I Dream/Cuando Sueño, selected by the New York City Public Schools as book of the month. Francisca is currently President of META/CABE and CEO of Provocative Practice. Before retirement, she served in a variety of leadership, administrative, and teaching positions at the district, county office, regional, and state levels, including as Associate Superintendent with Hayward USD and Chief Academic Officer for San Francisco USD. She also served two terms as CABE president and one term on the NABE board. Workshops: Clarissa Bitar Intersections of Music & Culture: Exploring Identity (Working Title) Babatunde Ilori Amplifying African American and Latino Student Voice as a Tool for Staff Learning (Working Title) Margaret Crowe Peterson Social Emotional Wellbeing of Bilingual and World Language Teacher Leaders: Rest as Radical Resistance Aldo Ramírez Transforming Schools and Empowering Students & Parents through Dual Language Systems (Working Title) Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes Linguistic Transfer: Building Bridges across Languages Yee Wan My Name, My Identity (Working Title) Table Talks: DISTRICT SHOWCASES Riverbank USD Dual Language Programs Hilmar USD Spanish & Portuguese Dual Language Programs Modesto High School International Baccalaureate Program HOT TOPICS Dual Language Education: Expanding Beyond Spanish Margaret Crow-Peterson Student Access & Equity in Dual Language Programs Aldo Ramírez K-12 Dual Language Articulation Duarte Silva Other Features: Morning Refreshments Lunch Conference Program Networking Opportunities META Membership Booth Urban Arts Exhibitor Booth Sponsors: California World Language Project/The California Subject Matter ProjectStanislaus County Office of EducationCentral Valley Dual Language ConsortiumProvocative PracticeUrban Arts, Inc.