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Professional Development Series

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Professional Development (PD) Series 1: Bilingual Education 101

This seminar includes presentations that critically examine how to rethink and reimagine community-based languaging as the core of linguistically and culturally inclusive teaching and learning practices. The participants will be empowered and prepared to dismantle monoglossic, monolingual, euro-centric, and white gaze ideologies. 

Fall 2023

Keynote Speaker: Fred Uy

Dr. Fred Uy serves both as a Director in the Department of Educator and Leadership Programs and as Co-Director for the Center for the Advancement of Instruction in Quantitative Reasoning. Before joining the Office of the Chancellor, Dr. Uy was a Professor of Mathematics Education at Cal State LA and a K-12 mathematics teacher. He has contributed to many CSU initiatives as a trainer for secondary school teachers' mathematics preparation. He authored numerous articles in journals and chapters in books and was a P.I. for various grants. He has also served as a consultant for school districts and publishers and conducted numerous professional development trainings locally, nationally, and internationally on topics like assessments, mathematics learning, arts integration, and bilingual education.

Topics:

  • What does it mean to be an Asian American teacher today? Why do we need more Asian language teachers? What do the different identities mean to you or to the teachers?
  • What systems of support are available or needed to support Asian language teachers?
  • How can we work across our ethnic identities to develop a sense of a holistic Asian American community? 

Scholar remarks: Sukyung Lee (CSUDH, Korean), Hanh Tran (Cal State Fullerton, Vietnamese), and Alicia Yu (Cal Poly Pomona, Mandarin)

Topics:

  • What does it mean to you to be an Asian American teacher today? (language specific)
  • How do you see your work impacting students of various ethnic backgrounds (Vietnamese, Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Mandarin)?
  • What support do you need to be an effective teacher? 

Professional Development Series 1 Slides

PD Series 2: Community Engagement to Enhance Language Instructions

At this seminar, “Community Engagement to Enhance Language Instructions,” we shared what community engagement looks like today and what we can imagine it to look like as we cultivate the much needed relationships between school and language communities in order to enhance language instruction. What is Community Engagement and its Role in Language Instruction? Community engagement is building relationships, and fostering an intricate and integral collaboration among members.  An important goal of community engagement is to empower ownership and inclusivity so that members share mutual responsibility in overcoming challenges and improving their communities.  Language plays a pivotal role in that participation. It is the bridge for effective communication, cultural understanding, access to information, and building trust and rapport.  

Topics:

  • Understanding Community Needs
  • Identifying Resources and Overcoming Challenges
  • Strategies for Involving the Community in the Educational Process

Professional Development Series 2 Slides

Summer 2024

Keynote Speaker: Eunice Ho

Eunice Ho,何 思愉 (she/her/她) is a Ethnic Studies practitioner and practices humanizing, healing-centered, praxis-driven, and place-based critical pedagogy. As a daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, her mother tongues were Taiwanese Hokkien and Mandarin. She hopes to embody the lineages of her great-grandfather who fought Japanese occupation; and her elders and extended family who are teachers and artists. She is a former Ethnic Studies high school and middle school teacher who taught in both Los Angeles and Orange County; was trained by mentors and peers at the UCLA Teacher Education Program where she earned her M.Ed with an emphasis in Ethnic Studies; and traces her journey back to her time as a prison abolition student organizer at UCSD where she earned her BA in Ethnic Studies. She currently works as a teacher educator in various spaces and works in relationship alongside other community organizers to protect Ethnic Studies as it gets
institutionalized. She cares deeply about transformative justice, nonviolent communication (NVC), and abolitionist praxis. Presentation here.

PD Series 3: Asset-Based Instruction Identifying Resources to Support Instructional Practices Through the Use of Personal Narratives and Digital Storytelling

The Professional Development 3 seminar focused on understanding the principles of asset-based instruction and its impact on student learning through personal narratives and digital storytelling. The participants explored how personal and professional experiences can be used to identify and amplify student assets to enhance instructional practices in the classroom, empower students’ voices, create inclusive curricula, value diverse experiences, cultivate student engagement and relevance, support differentiated instruction, and build technology skills.

Topics:

  • What is Asset-based instruction?
  • What are the Principles of Asset-based Instruction?

    • Recognizing Student Strengths

    • Empowering Student Voice

    • Building on Prior Knowledge

    • Cultural Responsiveness

    • Encourages Collaborative Learning

  • What is Asset-based instruction's impact on student learning?

    • These methods allow educators to tap into students' unique experiences, cultural backgrounds, and voices, making learning more relevant, engaging, and meaningful for the entire class.

Professional Development Series 3 Slides

Fall 2024

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Soon Young Jang

Dr. Soon Young Jang is an Associate Professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She obtained a Ph.D. in Language and Literacies Education from the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include children’s bilingualism and biliteracy, heritage language learning, translanguaging, and language policy and practice. The relationships between language, identity, and power in our society are at the core of her research inquiry. Additionally, Dr. Jang is the Principal Investigator of the ACTT (All Children Thrive through Translanguaging) project which advocates for culturally and linguistically diverse children and families through multiple communities of practice (university-based and student-centered, teacher-based, family-based, and online-based). This project is funded by the Dr. Seuss Foundation. The presentation slides are found here.