Carla España, Luz Y Herrera, Tracey T Flores, LaMar Timmons-Long, & Nawal Qarooni

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Today’s Gathering has pre-recorded sessions (to allow greater flexibility for presenters and tech hosts during the pandemic).

This means:

Keep your eye on the time! You will see the session from the start, not live in progress… don’t miss the next one!
Tweet with #TheEdCollabGathering. Presenters looking forward to connecting!

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[su_row]Carla España is a network member of The Educator Collaborative. Read her full bio here or request her for consulting or a speaking engagement.

Carla España, Ph.D. is a New York-based educator from Chile, researcher, writer, and co-founder of the En Comunidad Collective. Dr. España partners with K-12 schools and teacher preparation programs to support teachers, librarians, coaches, and administrators. Her teaching, writing, research, and workshops live at the intersection of critical literacies, bilingual/ multilingual education, children’s literature, language ideologies, curriculum development, and teacher education. She is the co-author of En Comunidad: Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Students with Dr. Luz Yadira Herrera. Follow her on Twitter @ProfesoraEspana[/su_row]

[su_row]Luz Yadira Herrera, Ph.D. is a teacher, researcher, author, and co-founder of the En Comunidad Collective. Dr. Herrera has over sixteen years of experience in the education of emergent bilinguals in both mainstream and bilingual settings. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education in the School of Education at California State University, Channel Islands. Dr. Herrera’s teaching and research are in culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogy, translanguaging, critical pedagogies, and bilingual education policy. She is the co-author of En Comunidad: Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Students with Dr. Carla España. Follow her on Twitter @Dra_LuzYadira. [/su_row]

[su_row]Tracey T Flores is a network member of The Educator Collaborative. Read her full bio here or request her for consulting or a speaking engagement.

Tracey T. Flores is an expert in Family and Community Literacies and literacy instruction for multilingual students, in both K-8 school settings and community spaces. Currently, Tracey is an assistant professor of Language and Literacy at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches Language Arts Methods and Community Literacies in the K-5 teacher education program. Her research focuses on Latina mothers’ and daughters’ language and literacy practices, the teaching of young writers in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, and family and community literacies. Tracey is the founder of Somos Escritoras/We Are Writers, a creative space for Latina girls (grades 6-12) that invites them to share and perform stories from their lived experiences using art, theater and writing as a tool for self-reflection and self-expression. Follow her on Twitter @traceyhabla [/su_row] [su_row]LaMar Timmons-Long is a network member of The Educator Collaborative. Read his full bio here or request him for consulting or a speaking engagement. LaMar Timmons-Long is a passionate educator who teaches English in New York City and Graduate Students at Pace University. LaMar loves working with young people as they inspire him to create sacred spaces for them to be themselves. Much of his work is centering the lives and experiences of Black, Brown and Queer youth through literature and conversation. If LaMar is not working, he can be found riding his Peloton bike, reading a good book, or enjoying Nature. Follow him on Twitter @DaBaddestEdu [/su_row] [su_row]Nawal Qarooni is an educator and writer who works in education spaces to support a holistic model of literacy instruction. She and her team of coaches at NQC Literacy work with teachers and school leaders to grow a love of reading and composition in ways that exalt the whole child, their cultural capital and their intrinsic curiosities. She is the proud daughter of immigrants, and mothering her four young kids shapes her understanding of teaching and learning. Nawal’s first book about family literacy with Heinemann is forthcoming in 2023. Follow her on Twitter @NQCLiteracy [/su_row]