Caslon Community | Resources

1. Creating multilingual professional learning communities

A multilingual professional learning community, or MPLC, is organized and directed by practitioners, with a shared mission, vision, and goals for educating multilingual learners. As you’ll see in the webinar, an MPLC brings a multilingual perspective to professional learning communities.

Publication: Caslon Community

Topic: Professional Development

Specialty:

Bilingual Learner

Bilingual

Multilingual

Professional Learning

La Cosecha 2021 Presentations

Transforming Sanchez School: Shared Leadership, Equity and Evidence

Friday, November 12, 11:10 AM-12:30 PM EST

This workshop describes the innovative structures of shared leadership, community engagement, and biliteracy instruction at both preschool and elementary school levels that transformed Sanchez Elementary School in San Francisco’s Mission District from a failing dysfunctional school to one that significantly outperformed a large majority of schools with similar demographic characteristics.

Publication: Caslon Community

Topic: Professional Development

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Translanguaging Conversation Question 1: What do you mean by the Translanguaging Stance?

Here is a short clip of what you can expect from a series of recorded conversations between the authors of The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning, Ofelia García, Kate Seltzer, and Susana Ibarra Johnson, that will be available through Caslon Learning.

In this 2-minute clip Ofelia García explains the concept of the juntos stance. The juntos stance is informed by three beliefs of joint collaboration:
1. Students’ language practices and cultural understanding encompass those they bring from home and communities, as well as those they take up in schools. These practices and understanding work juntos (together) and enrich each other.
2. Students’ families and communities are valuable sources of knowledge and must be involved in the education process juntos.
3. The classroom is a democratic space where teachers and students juntos co-create knowledge, challenge traditional hierarchies, and work toward a more just society.