2025 Advocacy Roundtable (Pre-Conference Event)

TOPIC: This Pre-Conference Advocacy Roundtable, “Voices Unidas: Leaders for Successful Dual Language Bilingual Education (DLBE),” follows the guiding question: “What does supportive leadership mean for DLBE?” With an advocacy lens, we will explore the need for Professional Learning for building leaders, district leaders, and state leaders. The roundtable will highlight the need for supportive leadership to ensure program success, especially as programs expand and grow. To help us focus on the importance of supportive leadership, speaker Marjorie Ringler and a panel of seasoned DLBE leaders in our region will set the stage for a discussion of policy implications. 

We encourage leaders to extend this invitation to any interested colleagues.

UPDATE GOALS: The goals of the Roundtable are to provide you with an opportunity to:

A - D - V - O - C - A - T - E

• Address the current challenges, opportunities, and recommendations regarding DLBE leadership
• Disseminate the value of DLBE programs for students, educators, families, and communities
• Visualize and understand the unique components of DLBE leadership
• Organize productive solutions to DLBE leadership challenges
• Commit to sustaining and growing leaders with DLBE expertise
• Affirm our communities of multilingual learners and educators
• Take action by joining a network of support that cultivates DLBE programs and leaders
• Evaluate the current state of DLBE leadership

Please RSVP by March 6, 2025. 

WHERE: Virtual, Link to follow registration 

PANELISTS: 

• Marjorie Ringler, DLI Administration Certificate, Professor and Chair, East Carolina University, NC

• Kimberly Komocar, Principal, Young Woods Elementary, Providence Public Schools, RI

• Sonia Walmsley, Executive Director of Educational Access and Pathways, New Bedford Public Schools, MA

• Amanda Campbell, Deputy Director of Multilingual Education, Lynn Public Schools, MA

• Dania Vasquez, Headmaster, Margarita Muñiz Academy, Boston Public Schools, MA

• Ayda Parra-Rojas, Dual Language Specialist, Windham Public Schools, CT

AGENDA: Review the agenda

ABOUT: MABE's Pre-Conference Advocacy Roundtable is a no-cost virtual event for invited guests and interested parties including school and district leaders, state education agencies, legislators, higher education institutions, and community organizations from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Maine. By making connections and creating opportunities for collaboration among many partners, we will be able to move forward together in creating the most equitable education and language learning programs for our students, especially those in underserved groups. 

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