NABE 2026 Conference Presentation: Seeing the Signs: Attuned Practices for Multilingual Newcomers Facing Transition Shock
2026-02-12 08:30 - 21:50 UTC
Event: NABE Conference 2026
Location: Room E255
Date & Time: February 12, 2026 | 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM
Session Format: Presentation
Presenter(s):
Maria Cieslak (Center for Applied Linguistics)
Description:
Are your multilingual newcomers showing signs of withdrawal, defiance, or disengagement? These may be signs of transition shock – a response to the emotional and neurological stress of adjusting to a new environment. In this interactive session, you will explore practical, trauma-responsive strategies to create safe, healing-centered classrooms where students feel seen, supported, and empowered. Using scenario cards, you’ll practice identifying fight, flight, and freeze behaviors and apply a simple attunement formula to respond with care and intention. Walk away with tools you can use immediately to build trust, foster resilience, and help multilingual newcomers thrive –emotionally and academically.

NABE 2026 Conference Presentation: Increasing English Learner Achievement Through Teacher Capacity Building: One School’s Journey
2026-02-12 14:20 - 15:10 UTC
Event: NABE Conference 2026
Location: Room E255
Date & Time: February 12, 2026 | 2:20 PM – 3:10 PM
Session Format: Presentation
Presenter(s):
Marybelle Marrero-Colon (Center for Applied Linguistics)
Carmen Delacruz (Arlington Public Schools)
Enis Delacruz (Arlington Public Schools)
Description:
This presentation showcases one school’s journey towards capacity building and strengthening its commitment to multilingual learners’ linguistic and academic achievement. By focusing on the implementation of the SIOP Model, a recognized and effective, research-based instructional model which benefits linguistic and academic achievement for multilingual learners, this school built a three-year professional development plan to improve teacher capacity. When supported through a long-term, job-embedded approach featuring guided lesson design and lesson study, results are noted in improved teacher evaluations and boosts in student achievement and language proficiency levels. The school’s PD plan and tools are shared and discussed.

Exploring Humanizing Pedagogies for Multilingual Learners and their Teachers
2026-03-04 15:30 UTC
TITLE: Exploring Humanizing Pedagogies for Multilingual Learners and their Teachers
DATE: March 4, 2026
TIME: 3:30–4:30 p.m. EDT

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DETAILS:
This webinar explores how and why humanizing pedagogies for multilingual learners and their teachers matter. The speakers provide an overview of their recently published book “Humanizing Pedagogies with Multilingual Learners: Transforming Teaching in the Content Areas,” written for PK-12 practitioners. This book is a love letter to teachers, students, families, and communities, and argues that all students should be able to be and become the best, most desired versions of themselves in our classrooms. Therefore, the book promotes relational, organic, real, and meaningful teaching and learning. The presentation will provide an overview of their research-grounded framework and offer tips on how their book can be used to support professional development in schools, districts, and university classrooms. Their aim is to support teachers in engaging and affirming students, their families, and building strong relationships among their professional colleagues.

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Upholding the Educational Civil Rights of Multilingual Learners and Families
2026-03-10 16:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
TITLE: Upholding the Educational Civil Rights of Multilingual Learners and Families
DATE: March 10, 2026
TIME: 4:00–4:30 p.m. EDT

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DETAILS:
States, districts, and schools have a legal and ethical obligation to ensure that all students, regardless of the language(s) they speak at home, have access to meaningful, equitable learning opportunities. Grounded in federal policy and civil rights law, these obligations extend to instructional access, language development supports, family engagement, and nondiscriminatory practices that enable multilingual learners to thrive academically and socially.
In this webinar, policy experts and practitioners will unpack the educational civil rights that protect multilingual learners and their families, clarifying what these rights mean in practice and how they are grounded in existing law and guidance. Participants will also hear directly from a state-level leader about how these civil rights frameworks are being implemented on the ground, highlighting policy levers, practical strategies, and lessons learned that can inform efforts in other contexts.
Join us to deepen your understanding of the civil rights of multilingual learners and the policies, practices, and partnerships essential to upholding them across educational systems.

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