Please join me in congratulating these amazing teachers who finished their K-12 ESL licensure program w/Project Momentum! I know our students access to curriculum is enhanced and I’ve heard about all the learning that took place! Thank you for your heartfelt dedication and unwavering commitment.

Thanks you MinneTESOL for inviting me to open the #meled2025 conference this morning. What a joy to share stories and space with language educators from all parts of Minnesota and beyond. 📸 Iman M.

#teacherleadership positions teachers as the experts. Karen & Jaden led our Day 1 of Translanguaging training. The asynchronous group started yesterday. @susana.i.johnson, @drkateseltzer, Dr. Ofelia Garcia, thanks your for your scholarship. #languagerights #multilingualeducation #freedomdreaming

What a fun time National Science Teaching Association in the company of dedicated science teachers. Thank you for inviting me to speak and share my story as a keynote speaker. And thanks to Stile Education for the sponsorship! 📸 friends Sierra and Will 📸 NSTA photographer

Thanks @witesol for the invitation. It was such a blast to share space with Michelle and share about our #LILA book work. @corwin We found so many connections between people and friends we have in common. Keep up the good work #WITESOL 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Thank you to Ana Mariella Rivera for hosting me on her podcast! youtu.be/bRb8o5hQp_k?...

Mil gracias @luisfitch por los posters y la oportunidad de platicar sobre el poder que tiene el arte para expresar mensajes. Mucho gusto de conocerlo también @gustavoliragarcia #urbanartvillage #eastlakestreet #immigrantvoices #communityart

So appreciative of @mrjohnsonpaints for sharing his art with educators so they can share community’s hero’s stories through representative art. @colorwheelmpls #freeposters for teachers

Thank you @colorwheelmpls for opening your doors to educators and supporting them with supplies!

Gracias @soymariellarivera por invitarme a tu programa de Historias & Huellas! Fue un gran honor! Y aún más poder haber visto a mi compatriota Rosa, una líder impactante en nuestra comunidad latina en Minnesota.

Michelle and I had the amazing opportunity to write an article for @langmag.bsky.social on Liberatory Learning through the Language of Identity, Language of Access. Thank you @corwinpress.bsky.social and Dan at Language Magazine for working with us!

A few weeks ago, we hosted the Ethnic Studies Symposium and Summit through a collaboration between the MN Ethnic Studies Coalition and UMN RIDGS Center. Educators came together to learn & network with e/o to provide Ss with liberatory learning experiences in schools. Blessed to know these people!

I am a #ProudImmigrant and #CommunityMember striving to make a difference every day. I come from a small but might country that’s suffered colonization and imperialistic domination. And even with that, my people are deeply loyal, hardworking, and resilient beyond measure.

Thank you Isa and Monet for inviting me to present with you on Rochester Public Schools work to normalize multilingualism through Translanguaging. #COMPASSInstitute 📸Sara-Louise and Justine

It’s not everyday that you reunite with your beloved sisters. We worked together a few years back as teacher organizers. Today, Sabrina organized Multilingual Excellence Awards with LatinoLEAD and partners. Congratulations Gisela on your award. Your words moved me deeply! 🤎🖤❤️✊🏽

Come and join RPS and an amazing team of teachers in the Multilingual Learning Department! Posting for a districtwide instructional Facilitator in our department closed in a week. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Meet Rochester Public Schools teachers who joined the latest portfolio cohort for PELSB Heritage Language Teachers to obtain their licensure. So happy to learn from each other!

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Join me in giving a shoutout to the JM ML staff and students that came to #SCL4E 2025 and presented what they’ve been working on in their Literacy classes! Posted with permission. @educationevolving.bsky.social #multilinguallearners

What a fun day of learning with amazing educators! A space where our youth led and presented alongside adults #SCL4E It was so inspiring to hear from everyone how the theme “The Stories We Carry & The Future We Create” comes to life. Thanks @educationevolving.bsky.social for making it all happen!

It was so fun to meet some of our incoming Kindergarten families and students at the @RPS Kindergarten Kick Off! #multilinguallearning

So inspiring to learn about the journey to launch the new Karen language program in SPPS. And always a joy to listen to dear teachers like Ethalow present about their work. Bilingual education teacher know what it takes to do it all from scratch! #languagerevitalization #multilingualism #MinnABE

Thanks Ethalow for capturing this candid moment! The first #MinnABE conference was a great space to connect to bilingual education work taking place across the state. So fun to share practical classroom applications that foster language development while centering students in learning. #LILAbook

So fun to attend the first MinnABE conference with this talented group of bilingual education teachers from the Rochester Public Schools Spanish Immersion program! Lots of connections to best practices and an opportunity to network with other bilingual education professionals.

What does it take to truly support students' language skills development? Criticality, cultural relevance, & authentic tasks. Find tips on how to implement these practices in your classroom in @mntoy21.bsky.social's blog 👉 ow.ly/y1MB50VtaAv #CorwinConnect #MLs

Shoutout to our amazing Rochester Poet Laureate and her students who read from the recently published Latino Anthology. Thanks Minnesota Humanities Center for organizing this event! Thanks you Rochester Public Library for hosting! #geniuswriters #poetry #youngauthors

“At a moment of real peril, we need people to show up with courage. Courage is contagious. We all lead with courage in big and small ways.” Rochester town hall, March 2025 @smith.senate.gov

Thanks for all you do for Rochester constituents @repkimhicks.bsky.social “Let’s not change our values because somebody says otherwise. Let’s be those who welcome people” Rochester town hall, March 2025

Thank you Rep. Liz Bolden for working on a healthcare for everyone: “Let’s build a healthcare system built on serving people not on profits.” Rochester town hall, March 2025

Thx @agellison.bsky.social “Everybody counts, everybody matters” “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance” “This is a moment be bold; there’s nothing illegal about DEI. Done right is about uniting people: rural communities, veterans, people with disabilities, gender and racial groups, etc.”

Because when you don’t got much time, you prep over lunch! 🙂 Thanks for being such a great professional partner Michelle! #LILAbook #CABE2025 @corwinpress.bsky.social

I had a chance to learn from and with our California brothers and sisters last week. So many resources at the national level that can support our local efforts in language revitalization and to normalize multilingualism. It was worth working over the weekend to fill my cup! #CABE2025

No better learning than from those that have come before us. It was so fun to have community members at our session during the #CABE2025 conference.

It’s not every day that you get to see your editorial team in person. Megan, Mia, and Natalie were instrumental in the production of the #LILAbook Huge thanks to this amazing group of women from the @corwinpress.bsky.social editorial team! Your incredible support is much appreciated! #CABE2025

Representing #Chapines 🇬🇹 in professional spaces. #Guatetextiles #GuateArtisans #LILAbook

One of the best things about my job is to collaborate with teachers! Thanks Karen, Emilia, and Tom for taking the initiative to look for opportunities for professional development. TESOL conference was a great way to help us affirm our work and to find resources to address ML students needs!

Thank you to all the farmers who called in to share their thoughts and describe their experiences as they deal with federal funding cuts, changes to tariffs, labor shortages and more. Listen to the conversation on MPR News. www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

How can we motivate students to embrace challenges instead of avoid them? Productive struggle enhances cognitive load capacity while boosting confidence and competence in handling complex academic tasks: ow.ly/LXUI50Uue5u @themathguru.bsky.social @mntoy21.bsky.social

A student-centered approach demands that we design learning experiences around our student’s needs. Adapting the curriculum accordingly is critical so that ALL and EACH student can succeed.

Students deserve to have updated standards in their classroom that support their critical thinking skills and inspire them to be civically engaged to build better communities for our future.

HF29 has been introduced in Minnesota to remove Ethnic Studies from the standards and would roll back social studies standards to the 2012 standards. CALL TO ACTION: Contact your LEGISLATORS and share your story of why they should OPPOSE HF29: https://buff.ly/3QQwRY9

Here is what you need to know about HF29. Take action and tell your LEGISLATORS to OPPORSE HF29! https://buff.ly/3QQwRY9

Here is what you need to know about HF29. Take action and tell your LEGISLATORS to OPPORSE HF29! https://buff.ly/3QQwRY9

Thank you Claudia and Merissa for presenting to RPS staff on asset-based approaches to family-school partnerships based on cultural wealth of multilingual communities. We value our partnership with Project Momentum! And a huge thanks to Jennifer for the coordination and making it all happen!

As part of strengthening family and school partnerships to support student success at school, we were fortunate to partner with Parent Teacher Hime Visits to train RPS staff who work with multilingual learners and other students. Thank you to our trainers April, Brenda, and Heather!