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HAVE YOU REGISTERED YET? SCOE Multilingual Learner Leadership Conference

Date: 12/11/2023
Author: Jenn Guerrero

Teachers, administrators, TOSAs, counselors, specialists, and paraprofessionals are warmly invited to attend SCOE’s annual Multilingual Learner Leadership Conference on January 19, 2024.

Breakout sessions this year include 

  • Choosing Honor Over Power

  • Revolutionizing Multilingual Education Begins with Me

  • Balancing Conviction with Compliance: Developing a Strategic Plan for Multilingual Learners

  • N.O.P.A.L.I.T.O.S. (Never give up, Opportunity, Plan and prepare, Action, Lead, Innovate, Team, Observe, Stay humble.)

  • Creating Effective Designated ELD Lessons to Promote Authentic Communication in the Elementary Classroom

  • Sustaining the Cultural and Linguistic Wealth of Multilingual Students

  • See You on the Other Side: The Amarosa Community School Mural Project

  • Cosechando Conexiones con Poesia: Poetry as Teaching, Healing, and Resistance

 This year’s conference theme, Voices of Light, asks its presenters and participants to investigate the question, “How might we celebrate and honor the voices of multilingual learners to co-create practices of belonging?”  Keynote speakers include LTC Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch, Ret.and Dr. Luz Yadira Herrera

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Leilan, Student
"I like Amarosa because there's a much smaller student count and so teachers can be one-on-one with you. They can actually help you and be one-on-one with you while the class is doing something else. I feel like that's a huge game-changer." - Leilan, Student