The Translanguaging Classroom Summer Institute
June 12 - 13, 2025
Translanguaging Energies: Juntos, Corriente and Wonder
Thursday, June 12, 2024 • 9:30 am - 10:45 am - Session 1
Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Sustaining Culture and Translanguaging
San Rafael Ballroom A
Kyla Harris
Atlanta Public Schools / Georgia State University
Dual Language Immersion Teacher/ Doctoral Student
This session explores how AI can support language development through culturally sustaining practices, including translanguaging. Participants will examine the positive and negative effects of AI in the classroom and discover strategies to integrate AI tools in ways that enhance pedagogy and foster linguistic growth for diverse students.
Early Childhood, Elementary Educators
Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs, English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Aprendiendo Juntas: Developing a Translangauging Stance With Latinx Pre-service and In-Service Educators
San Rafael Ballroom B
Elvira Pichardo
Lewis University
Assistant Professor
This presentation explores and illustrates how two university educators taught facilitated the use of a translanguaging repertoires in a curriculum and instruction course. Aprendiendo juntos is how we translanguage juntas in order to increase sociopolitical awareness, disrupt the English hierarchy, and prepare bilingual educators to teach during efforts to disempower, deprofessionalize, and censor educators.
Administrators, Higher Education
Transitional Bilingual Education Programs, Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs, English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs, General Education
Aquí y ahora: Nuturing the Power of Translanguaging and Wonder
Tularosa
Carlos López Leiva
Vanessa Reyes
University of New Mexico
Associate Professor
This presentation will briefly introduce values and historical development of Translanguaging with the goal of emphasizing the relevance of in-the-moment translanguaging practices and wonder aquí y ahora in the classroom.
Elementary Educators, Higher Education
Transitional Bilingual Education Programs, Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs, English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs, Special Education
Strategies to Encourage el flujo of Responses bilingües
Guadalupe
Rachell Plote
Illinois Resource Center
Multilingual Education Specialist
During this session we will engage in activities that support the use of translanguaging in classrooms. Participants will leave with ideas to encourage bilingual students to fluidly express themselves orally and in writing using their entire linguistic repertoires in any content area.
Elementary Educators, Middle School Educators
Transitional Bilingual Education Programs, Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs, English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs, Special Education, General Education
Thursday, June 12, 2024 • 11:00 am - 12:15 pm - Session 2
Translanguaging in Plurilingual Classrooms: Coaching Content Teachers of Emergent MLs
San Rafael Ballroom A
Kristin Bengtson Mendoza
Teacher & Instructional Coach / Doctoral Student
International Academy, New Haven Public Schools, CT / SCSU
Content teachers play a vital role in the education of MLs, but they often join our teams without specialized training. How can coaching and ongoing professional development build a shared understanding of translanguaging pedagogy across a team of educators? I will share our high school’s approach and my doctoral research.
Translanguaging Pedagogy in Program and Policy: Creating, Establishing, Sustaining, Translanguaging and Teacher Preparation/Professional Development
Administrators, Higher Education
Translanguaging Foundations for Culturally Sustaining Family-School Relations in Multilingual Communities
San Rafael Ballroom B
Jen Stacy
Elexia Reyes McGovern
Assistant Professor
University of New Mexico
Participants will explore translanguaging as a foundation to developing culturally sustaining relationships with parents, caregivers, and families. They will critically reflect on common familial outreach practices, contemplate the degree to which those pursue equity, and explore justice-oriented alternatives. Participants will apply translanguaging stance, design, and shifts to their family-outreach praxis.
Translanguaging and Family/Community: Involvement, Engagement, Partnership
Early Childhood, Elementary Educators
El Translenguaje: Both languages? ¿Por qué no?
Tularosa
Elena Izquierdo
Professor
The University of Texas at El Paso
Dual Language Bilingual Education languaging is shifting! What was once a rigid separation of languages is now evolving into a pedagogy that values the fluid interplay and mutual reinforcement of both languages - cross-linguistic awareness. This session explores how educators are managing this shift, highlighting classroom practices and emerging challenges that impact teaching and learning.
Translanguaging Pedagogy in Program and Policy: Creating, Establishing, Sustaining
Elementary Educators, Administrators
¡Hola, Hello! Translanguaging Takeoff: Uniting Stance, Design, & Shift for Biliteracy Brilliance and Mathematical Reasoning
Guadalupe
Margarita Marrero
Yvonne Williams
Associate Director
WCEPS
¡Hola, Hello! Translanguaging for Biliteracy Brilliance explores translanguaging as an innovative response to diverse classroom challenges, particularly in mathematics. Grounded in research, this interactive session equips educators with strategies to enhance biliteracy, support multilingual learners, and create inclusive learning environments through evidence-based teaching practices. Empower students with a dynamic, multilingual approach!
Translanguaging in Classroom Practices, Translanguaging and Social Justice and Equity
Middle School Educators, Secondary Educators
Thursday, June 12, 2024 • 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm - Session 3
The “Languaging Representations Chart”: Translanguaging Theory Made Visual
Guadalupe
Mike Mena
Dr.
Brooklyn College, CUNY
In January 2025, Dr. Mike Mena published the “Translanguaging Representations Chart,” a visual aid to help make visible the theoretical differences between “code-switching” and “translanguaging.” The goal of this workshop is simple: to finally understand, in a clear and simple way, the differences between translanguaging pedagogies and code-switching pedagogies.
Middle School Educators, Secondary Educators
Translanguaging in Classroom Practices, Translanguaging and Teacher Preparation/Professional Development
A PUBLIC PRAXIS: Art Education + Research + Dialogue
Tularosa
William Estrada
Maestro
Chicago Public Schools
William Estrada will discuss how a collaborative methodology can foster artistic practices prioritizing collective artmaking with people in their neighborhoods. This approach interrupts notions of where art can exist, who produces knowledge, and how to learn from people in their communities.
Elementary Educators, Family and Community
Translanguaging and Social Justice and Equity, Translanguaging and Family/Community: Involvement, Engagement, Partnership
Des-bordando paredes/Dismantling Walls, and Embroidering Care
San Rafael Ballroom B
Minea Armijo Romero
Susana Ibarra Johnson
Assistant professor
New Mexico State University
This presentation explores the urgent need to expand bilingual programs and center translanguaging pedagogies to empower educators along the US/Mexico border. Highlighting educators as cultural "bordadores," it emphasizes cross-cultural collaboration and ambitious reforms to create inclusive, responsive learning environments amid the region’s dynamic demographic transformation. (Anzaldúa, 1987)
Administrators, Higher Education
Translanguaging Pedagogy in Program and Policy: Creating, Establishing, Sustaining, Translanguaging and Teacher Preparation/Professional Development
Cultivating a Translanguaging Pedagogy: Affirming Children’s Languages, Cultures, and Bilingual Identities
San Rafael Ballroom A
Elisabeth Valenzuela
Elizabeth Probst
Assistant Professor
New Mexico Highlands University
This session will enable participants to learn how to cultivate a translanguaging pedagogy in a heritage bilingual education program for kindergarten and first-grade students. The focus will be on how educators can utilize students' linguistic repertoires as resources to revitalize and affirm their languages, cultures, ways of knowing, and bilingual identities.
Early Childhood
Translanguaging in Classroom Practices
Thursday, June 12, 2024 • 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm - Session 4
Translanguaging as a Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Leadership Strategies for Stronger, Inclusive School Communities
San Rafael Ballroom A
Karina Oliveira de Paula
This session explores how school leaders can use translanguaging as a trauma-informed pedagogy to support Indigenous Venezuelan refugee students. Through a case study of Café Sem Troco Public School, participants will gain practical leadership strategies to foster inclusive, multilingual environments that strengthen both school communities and student well-being.
Doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction
Texas Tech University
Dr. Michelle Angelo-Rocha, Maria Janerrandra
Elementary Educators, Administrators
Translanguaging and Social Justice and Equity
Translanguaging alongside future bilingual teachers in the borderlands
San Rafael Ballroom B
Dan Heiman
Future bilingual teachers in a borderlands educator preparation program will, through translanguaging, historicize their language journeys, interrogate previous ideas around language ideologies, and describe their movements towards praxis as part of a community engagement experience at a DLBE school on the US Mexico border.
Associate Professor of Bilingual/Biliteracy Education
University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)
Katherine Mortimer, María Galindo, Tania Ibarra
Elementary Educators, Higher Education
Translanguaging and Teacher Preparation/Professional Development
Our Identity como espejo y ventana en Translanguaging Practices
Tularosa
Elizet Hernández Kneisler
Through meaningful pláticas, participants will explore identity and self-imposed ideologies that trickle into their instruction without knowing. Together we will consider the integration of instructional translanguaging practices that support students’ identity, language skills and a more inclusive learning environment.
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Elementary Educators
Translanguaging in Classroom Practices
From Home to School: En las estrategias se encuentra el PODER!
Guadalupe
Socorro Herrera
This session explores how the intersections of family, translanguaging theory and pedagogy (e.g., García, 2017) are utilized to uplift and leverage la historia, lenguaje, cultura, and bi/multiliteracy assets of the home and community for educators and students. It provides guidance para los educatores on how to create spaces where the learner’s full “humanity” is shared, understood, and made part of the tapestry of learning without reservation. Participants will learn strategies for making translanguaging and experiencia bridging an interactional norm in the classroom.
Professor
Kansas State University
Early Childhood, Elementary Educators
Translanguaging in Classroom Practices, Translanguaging and Family/Community: Involvement, Engagement, Partnership
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DLeNM's 2025 Summer Institutes will take place at the Hotel Encanto located in Las Cruces, NM.
Hotel Encanto
705 South Telshor Blvd.
Las Cruces, NM 88011
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Reservation Cut-Off Date - Friday, May 9, 2025
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