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Tapping Into Learning at Home: Connecting with Multilingual Students and Families to Enhance Distance Learning

Annie Camey Kuo
Annie Camey Kuo
Ramón Antonio Martínez
Ramón Antonio Martínez
Alesha Moreno-Ramirez
Alesha Moreno-Ramirez

Tapping Into Learning at Home: Connecting with Multilingual Students and Families to Enhance Distance Learning

Friday, October 16, 2020
10:00am - 11:15am
Zoom

Workshop time listed in Pacific time zone.

While the COVID-19 pandemic is a moment of unprecedented educational crisis, it's also a unique opportunity transform our approaches to supporting multilingual learners. How might we improve distance learning for these students by exploring what they are doing at home?

Join us for a workshop to examine how connecting with multilingual students and families can enhance distance learning opportunities and strengthen the relationship between the school and home during this exceptional year. 

About the Speakers:

Annie Camey Kuo is the Director of Research-Practice Partnerships for Understanding Language at Stanford Graduate School of Education. Her work focuses on building systems of support for multilingual students with schools, districts, states, and organizations. Annie received her PhD in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of Washington and earned an MA from New York University in TESOL and Foreign Language Education. She is a 1.5-generation immigrant from Taiwan and a practitioner at heart, having taught at various grades in K-12 and higher education. Annie’s areas of interest include project-based learning, multi-level professional development, and design thinking.

Ramón Antonio Martínez is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. His research explores the intersections of language, race, and ideology in the public schooling experiences of students of color, with a particular focus on bi/multilingual Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x children and youth. He has published articles in journals such as Linguistics and Education, Research in the Teaching of English, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Teachers College Record, and Review of Research in Education. Before joining the faculty at Stanford, Dr. Martínez was an assistant professor of Language and Literacy Studies in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to earning his doctorate from the Division of Urban Schooling at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies in 2009, Dr. Martínez worked as a bilingual elementary school teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Alesha Moreno-Ramirez is the ELA/ELD Staff Development & Curriculum Specialist at the Tulare County Office of Education. Alesha is a spirited educator of over two decades with a passion for all-things language and literacy. She’s an avid reader, writer, and lover of words, and is active in the world of multilingual learning as a voice of advocacy, action, and support. While Alesha revels in working with students and families, she also thoroughly enjoys empowering educators in all capacities. It is her privilege to serve Tulare County Office of Education and the diverse population of CA public schools, and her desire to use literacy and language education as a vehicle for equity and social justice

Event Details


Event Admission 
Open to public
Price 
FREE with registration
Event Audience 
Alumni/Friends
Educators
Administrators, K-12

Contact Information


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Stanford GSE Alumni Relations
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