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2024 Community-Based Heritage Language Schools Conference The Role of Community-Based Schools in the Language Learning Landscape
This conference is for program directors and administrators of community-based heritage language schools; members of the language communities involved in these schools; and directors and leaders in public, private, and charter schools who are interested in working with community-based heritage language schools.
2024 In-person and Virtual Options
Friday, October 4, 2024?- 1:00 p.m. to 6:15?p.m. EDT
Saturday, October 5, 2024?- 10:00?a.m. to 6:00?p.m. EDT
This conference aims to:
- Build partnerships among and across community-based heritage language schools and determine arenas for future action
- Help schools create, strengthen, and build their school structures and activities
- Make clear the importance of community-based heritage language schools in the language learning landscape and in the lives of language communities in the United States
- Develop information about community-based heritage language schools through a national survey of schools
- Share and make available resources that will be helpful to schools
Conference Schedule
Important Links
Friday, October 4
(Eastern Time)
12:00?to 1:00 p.m. - Participant Check-in
1:00 to 1:30 p.m. ¨C Conference Opening
Saturday, October 5
(Eastern Time)
9:45?to 10:00?a.m. - Participant Check-in
Conference Plenary Sessions:
Community and Heritage Language Schools Transforming Education:?Research, Challanges, Teaching Practices, and Next Steps
- Dr. Ken Cruickshank,?University of Sydney, Australia
Expanding Heritage Language Education in the U.S.: Historic Immigration & Renewed Opportunities?
- Dr. Richard Brecht, Co-Director, American Councils Research Center; Co-Founder & Chief Language Officer, Jeenie?
Workshops for Teachers and Administrators?
- Engaging Teenagers in Community-Based Schools?
- Transformative Pedagogy for Heritage Languages: From Cross-Curricular Projects to Social Action?
- Practical Applications of?AI Technology in the?Heritage Language Classroom?
- Helping Parents to Engage More with Their Children in the Language?
- A Checklist for Program Establishment and Evaluation?
- Revitalizing and Strengthening Heritage Language Education by Cultivating Teacher Agency?
- Collaborations Between Community-Based and Public Schools?
- Working with the State Department of Education?
- What Schools Are Doing
Registration is now open for the 2024?Community-Based Heritage Language Schools Conference.?!
Read more about Community-based Heritage Language Conferences from prior years:
The following languages have been represented at the conference in previous years. The National Coalition of Community-Based Language Schools has language representatives for each of these languages who are closely engaged with practitioners working in community-based heritage language programs in their language community and are interested in making connections with other language groups. Language respresentatives serve as liaisons, creating connections between their language community and the work of the Coalition. Check out the to learn more about the language representatives and their responsibilities.
Languages represented include:
- Albanian
- American Sign Language
- Amharic (Ethiopia)
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Chinese
- Czech
- Dari
- Estonian
- Farsi
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Filipino
-
Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hindi ??
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Lithuanian
- Lokanu
- Marathi
- Osage Nation
- Pashto
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Quechua
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Tagalog
- Tamil
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukranian
- Urdu
- Uyghur
- Vietnamese
The 2023?Community-Based Heritage Language Schools Conference?is hosted as a collaboration between the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Institute for Innovation in Education and the .
If you are interested in sponsoring the conference, please contact Danielle Sodani:?dgsodani@american.edu.
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2023 Plenary Address
Telling the Stories of Community-Based Language Schools
Shuhan Wang, ÍõÖÜÊ纲©Ê¿?±Ê³ó.¶Ù.,?ELE Consulting International; Chinese Language Education, Asia Society
Plenary Address #2:?, ?Felix Kronenberg,?Ph.D,?National LCTL Resource Center?
Plenary Address #3:?, Kristin Davin, Ph.D.,?University of North Carolina- Charlotte
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2023 Conference Resources
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Conference Planning Team
Coalition for Community-Based Heritage Language Schools
Masako Douglas, Professor of Japanese, California State University, Long Beach; Curriculum Advisor, Oranage Coast Gakuen Japanese Language School
Ana Lucia Lico, Co-Founder and Board Member, Brazilian Association for Culture and Education (ABRACE)
Renate Ludanyi,?Ph.D., President, German Language School Conference, United States
Tommy Lu, Department Chair of Information Technologies, Delaware Technical Community College; Advisor, Washington Metropolitan Association of Chinese Schools (WMACS)
Marta McCabe, President, Czech and Slovak School of North Carolina; Global Learning Consultant, Duke University
Joy Kreeft Peyton, Conference Chair, Senior Fellow, Center for Applied Linguistics
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Mavissa Beach, Program Coordinator,?Institute of Innovation in Education, Â鶹ÊÓƵ, School of Education
Mark Forsberg, Program Coordinator, Community-Based Heritage Language Schools Conference
Danielle Gervais Sodani, Director, Institute of Innovation in Education, Â鶹ÊÓƵ, School of Education