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BEST Plus 2.0 and BEST Literacy Approved through June 30, 2025

The Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) at the U.S. Department of Education has extended the approval of BEST Plus 2.0 and BEST Literacy for use by federally funded programs that report data through the National Reporting System (NRS) through June 30, 2025.

Addressing the Educator Shortage: Supporting Pathways to the Teaching Profession for Multilingual Paraeducators

STARTALK Video Slide

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CAL's Statement on Executive Order

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Latest Videos/Webinars

Indigenous Language Reclamation

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Indigenous Language Reclamation

Educating Transnational Students: Languages and Identities across Borders

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Educating Transnational Students: Languages and Identities across Borders

Critical Biliteracies without Borders: Translanguaging and Culturally Sustaining Approaches

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Critical Biliteracies without Borders: Translanguaging and Culturally Sustaining Approaches

Critical Multiliteracies Beyond School Borders: Heritage Language Involvement in the Community

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Critical Multiliteracies Beyond School Borders: Heritage Language Involvement in the Community

Breaking Down Borders for Multilingual Learners with Disabilities

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Breaking Down Borders for Multilingual Learners with Disabilities

Harnessing the Power of Multilingualism: Strategies for Meaningful Assessment

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Harnessing the Power of Multilingualism: Strategies for Meaningful Assessment

Upcoming Events

2025 AAAS Conference Roundtable—The Lapdog Syndrome: Polyethnographies of Asian Women Navigating Power and Identity

EVENTS

2025 AAAS Conference Roundtable—The Lapdog Syndrome: Polyethnographies of Asian Women Navigating Power and Identity

April 19, 2025

AERA 2025 Annual Meeting Presentation—A Graduate Student Perspective on ELT Preparation to Advance the Decolonization/Decolonial Project in TESOL/applied Linguistics

EVENTS

AERA 2025 Annual Meeting Presentation—A Graduate Student Perspective on ELT Preparation to Advance the Decolonization/Decolonial Project in TESOL/applied Linguistics

April 24, 2025

AERA 2025 Annual Meeting Presentations—Instructional Quality in Collaborative Teaching: What Factors Support or Impede It?

EVENTS

AERA 2025 Annual Meeting Presentations—Instructional Quality in Collaborative Teaching: What Factors Support or Impede It?

April 24, 2025

AERA 2025 Annual Meeting Presentation—Teachers’ Development of Critical Consciousness around Multilingual Families

EVENTS

AERA 2025 Annual Meeting Presentation—Teachers’ Development of Critical Consciousness around Multilingual Families

April 25, 2025

AERA 2025 Annual Meeting Presentation—Developing a Classroom Assessment System in Science: Centering Educators' and Multilingual Students' Voices