Dr. Carla España, Dr. Luz Yadira Herrera, Michaela McCaughey, & Jen López

☟⬇︎ Watch here on Sept 18th⬇︎☟

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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!
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[su_divider divider_color=”#ffb121″] [su_row]Dr. Carla España is a member of The Educator Collaborative network. Read her full bio here or request her support for consulting or speaking engagements. Carla is an expert on bilingual education and biliteracy practices across K-12 and higher education. She supports schools across the United States and around the world, with experience supporting educators and students in urban, suburban, rural and international schools. She is the Coordinator, of the Language Series, Supervised Fieldwork Advisor & Course Instructor at Bank Street College Graduate School of Education. Carla’s research studies the ways bilingual students make meaning of their schooling, focusing on issues of translanguaging and culturally sustaining pedagogy in reading and writing workshop classrooms. Her research interests include bilingual education, translanguaging, culturally sustaining pedagogy, arts integration, Latinx education, teaching for social justice, curriculum development, and teacher preparation. [/su_row][su_row]Dr. Luz Yadira Herrera is an Assistant Professor of multilingual and multicultural education in the Kremen School of Education and Human Development at California State University, Fresno. Luz received her Ph.D. from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She taught emergent bilingual children in NYC public schools for seven years. In addition, she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in bilingualism in education, race in schooling, K-12 language and literacy, and theory and methods courses in TESOL and bilingual education at the City College of New York, Long Island University, and Brooklyn College. Her teaching and research centers culturally and linguistically sustaining approaches to teaching emergent bilinguals, translanguaging and critical pedagogies, and bilingual education policy. Follow her on Twitter @Dra_LuzYadira. [/su_row]

[su_row]Michaela McCaughey is a high school Spanish Heritage teacher in Providence, Rhode Island. Her students are creative artists who push and inspire her. Within her educational philosophy she focuses on social justice issues, culturally responsive and critical pedagogy, arts-integration, and (bi)literacy. [/su_row]

[su_row]Jen López currently teaches Heritage Spanish 1 and English 3 at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Minneapolis, MN. Over the years, she has worked to transform her Heritage Spanish program to focus on critical literacy skills that transfer to different courses and areas of student’s personal and professional lives. She blogs about her workshop classroom at https://growingwithheritagelearners.home.blog[/su_row]

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