I am speaking this Thursday at Art of Belonging: Annual Migrant and Arts Program State Conference 2025 in Yakima, WA, along with Robert Reichardt from Augenblick, Palaich and Associates (APA Consulting). Please check out our talk if you're attending the event! - cross-posted

Don’t despair about the SCOTUS ruling on universal injunctions. CASA, whose case ended with that ruling, shows the agility and flexibility I recommend my clients cultivate in this era - they pivoted on a dime and redefined their case as a class action suit. This is how you do it!

This year’s run of Harmonic Multilingual Program Design is a wrap! Such a great experience coaching and guiding these leadership teams from seven school districts. We will offer next year - stay tuned for details!

Urdu and Spanish speaking teachers needed - Please share to help Skokie 73.5 fill these two positions!

So cool to be able to faciltate multilingual program design efforts in the elementary school district that raised me up! Thanks to Des Plaines CCSD 62 for inviting me!

Wrapped up a 3-day workshop series in Crystal Lake School District 47 on the topic of #mutilinguallearners and #MTSS and #SPED. Great experience with hard working, dedicated professionals. Thanks to Rebecca Morton and Holly Lyman for inviting me to share my expertise!

Trump's Proposed Budget for FY26 OELA,Title III, Migrant Ed, & Equity Assist. Centers - gone! Title I would be severely cut. SPED will have level funding. Remember, budgets are value statements. They'll use reconciliation to pass. Call your elected officials NOW. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

At Claude Goldenberg’s session at #TESOL25 and he is blowing my mind, talking at length about The American Tradition: Bilingual Education. I knew this to be true, but he laid out all the details. A smaller percentage of children are currently, in 2025, receiving bilingual education than in 1900.

💥 Hope to see you in Long Beach! 💥 I'll be presenting on Wednesday, March 19 at 3:30 PM 💥 Tweaking for Equity: MTSS & SPED For Multilingual Learners (MLs). 💥 #TESOL25

Veronica Ramos of ¡WEPA! líbros ™ wins participant engagement leader at #NABE2025. Why am I not surprised

If I had a dollar for every Margo Gottlieb presentation I’ve attended, I could have retired a year earlier! I think my first one was at the Radisson Hotel in Lincolnwood, IL (the purple hotel) back in 1983 when she was involved in Project Rainbow for Elgin U-46. #NABE25

☄️I’m presenting! ☄️Friday, February 21. ☄️A High Quality Program for Newcomers: What’s Needed☄️Stop by, say hi, and stay for proven design, strategies, and exchange of ideas☄️

Illinois stands up for immigrants.

An update on what happened in Chicago yesterday. Since when does the Secret Service visit an elementary school to speak to a child? That is NOT allowed without a signed judicial warrant. Reported ICE visit to Chicago school was actually Secret Service, officials say.

An update to what we thought was an ICE raid at Hamline. Secret Service agents represented that they were ICE agents. C-R-A-Z-Y. blockclubchicago.org

Kudos and much love to the folks at Hamline. This is how how you do it! Hamline Elementary was one of the schools I visited frequently when I worked for the Civil Rights division at the US DOJ.

Guidance for school secretaries and front office staff.

Sanctuary for immigrants in schools, houses of worship, and health care facilities has been rescinded. These spaces are no longer safe. www.npr.org/2025/01/21/n...

Here we go....Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...

Contemplating change? Want to increase capacity? Grow competency? Improve teaching and learning conditions? Re-calibrate context, expectations, and mindsets? Support a new leadership hire?

Slow down. Savor the moment. Be present. Enjoy the holidays.

GREAT news for educators - WEP has been repealed!!

Our first session is immediately after the holidays, so if you are interested, register now, before the holidays! Thanks to Dr. Jillayne Bose-Deakins and her team at True North District 804 for putting this professional learning opportunity together. #MTSS #multilingual #SPED #ESL

Who’s is the first person I see at the conference? @mrsspinasclass.bsky.social It’s going to be a great conference! #MultilingualIL24!

3 super diverse school districts; 3 different and unique ways to meet newcomers’ needs. Join us and walk away with proven practices to use in your situation! #newcomers #SEL #ESL #bilingual #multilingual

Spread the word. Illinois TBE/TPI directors in their first 3 years of leadership. #ESL #bilingualeducation #multilingualism #administration

This is stchastic terrorism. After January 20, it will be state-sponsored and state-inflicted stochastic terrorism. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

Stop by and say Hi! Stay for the #newcomers and the #MTSS at #RSAC24!

This is our new home on BlueSky! We look forward to connecting and sharing resources with educators across Illinois and beyond here!

If you are a new (hired this year) or not so new (hired last year or the year before) director or coordinator in Illinois, please join us. Reach out to me for tomorrow's Zoom link if somehow we missed you on the invitation. #ESL #Bilingual #Dual #administration

Once again, we look to Larry for guidance. Thank U!