Webinars, Cafes, & Podcasts

 May 8 & 15, 2024

Impact of Immigration on Heritage Language Education in the U.S.

Richard Brecht led a dynamic consideration of new immigration patterns and how community-based schools are responding and building and sustaining their programs, and community-based school leaders talked about the challenges and successes they are experiencing and their next steps in building their schools. 

 March 4, 2024

AI Technology in the Heritage Language Teaching and Learning

Agnès Tounkara and Arturo Díaz led a a discussion on how community-based schools can integrate AI technology in the heritage language classroom. The video recording of the Zoom session is available to watch.

 March 30, 2023

Discover Ways to Work Together – Coalition Virtual Café

Renate Ludanyi (President, German Language School Conference, German School of Connecticut) and Sigrid Belluz (VP, German Language School Conference, Deutsche Schule Charlotte, NC) discussed the importance of purposeful and efficient communication and collaboration among individual Community-Based Heritage Language (CBHL) schools teaching the same language and the benefits that it can bring. Collaboration might include forming and working with an umbrella organization. CBHL school representatives working with many languages joined the discussion and shared the ways that they are collaborating in different fashions and with different formats. It was a rich discussion, and we plan to continue it.

The slides can be used as a guideline for you to think about the nature of your collaborations and how you might expand and enrich them.

We would love to learn more about how you are collaborating with other CBHL schools teaching your language or working with umbrella organizations for your language. If you would like to share your story about this, please write to Joy Peyton, joy@peytons.us, and I will compile and share them. Please copy the Cafe Moderators, tludanyi@snet.net and sbelluz@dsclt.com, when you share your story.

October 27, 2022

Creating Successful Pathways to Proficiency Through Assessment in Community-Based Heritage Language Schools

Linda Egnatz, Masako Douglas, and Eva Prionas shared key information about creating successful pathways to proficiency for students, answering these questions:


● What might this pathway look like in a given program?
● What tests are used and what do they measure?
● Who should take the tests and why?
● What are best practices in preparing learners to take the test?
● What will learners gain by testing for proficiency?
● How does the Global Seal of Biliteracy support pathways to proficiency?

 

 

June 15, 2022

U.N. Sustainable Development Goals and Community-Based Heritage Language Schools

Dr. Renata Emilsson Peskova, President of Móðurmál, the Association on Bilingualism, in Iceland, presented a Webinar on the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals and Community-Based Heritage Language Schools. Attached are the presentation slides and a report by Bibiam M. González Rodríguez on her Spanish lessons with a group of students 9-12 years old, based on the Goals.

 

October 28, 2021 to March 3, 2022

Heritage Language Instruction in a Virtual Context: Professional Development Webinars

Four webinars were held by leaders in the Sava Online Serbian school on heritage language instruction in a virtual context.

 

 

 

November 30, 2020

Heritage Language Schools' Response to COVID-19: Resilience, Creativity, and Opportunities

Leaders from the Coalition of Community-Based Heritage Language Schools and the International Heritage Languages Association (IHLA) discuss how heritage language schools have adapted to the COVID-19 crisis and share survey responses from teachers and school leaders from across the United States.

 April 8, 2020

The Bilingual Revolution and the Future of Education in Two Languages

Fabrice Jaumont gives a dynamic description of the importance of being bilingual/multilingual and the value that it brings to individuals and communities.

 

Podcasts

September 29, 2022

You Are Invited to… Celebrate Your Heritage

What has been your history, your family history with regard to your practices — culture — and the language(s) you speak or spoke in the past? Has your history been celebrated? Supported? Forgotten? Suppressed? Separated from you? I’m inviting you to ponder your heritage so as to celebrate your uniqueness. We all need you to be your unique self and contribute your unique perspective and experiences.

April 28, 2022

International Collaborations

In this, Podcast 4, a group of panelists from four countries in addition to the United States describe their work, challenges, and successes with heritage language speakers and community-based schools in their country and ways that we can collaborate so that these speakers, their communities, and the organizations that support them become stronger and more vibrant.

April 21, 2022

Advocating for Heritage Languages

In this third podcast in the series, my panel of leaders of national organizations with a variety of perspectives on and experiences with the role of heritage languages in society provide powerful stories of individuals young and old, in varieties of educational and work settings – and in doing so, connect those experiences with the need for active support and advocacy for such languages in order to build a strong society.

April 14, 2022

Heritage Doorways

In this podcast, the second of the four in the series, we talk with founders and leaders of community-based heritage language schools, who think and work enthusiastically with students, parents, and teachers in these schools to ensure that students are engaged and involved and recognize the gift of their heritage language as a vital part of their identity, self-worth, and learning and career potential. The panelists have implemented exciting and powerful activities and connections in their schools, and it is an inspiration to hear them share about the power of these experiences for individuals, institutions, and communities.

April 7, 2022

Becoming an Equitable, Multilingual Society

These podcasts will focus on four major areas of interest, concern, and action with regard to heritage languages. These four weeks / panels are designed to address key issues of interest and concern to those familiar with heritage language issues, while also introducing key concepts, situations, populations, and needs to those who are not familiar with heritage language experiences or populations.

April 15, 2021

Supporting Heritage Languages and Cultures

What is YOUR linguistic and cultural heritage? Community-based heritage language schools exist. If you work in such a school, study there, support it, share about it with others: thank you. If you don’t know about such heritage language schools in your community (I didn’t!), here’s a chance to find out: Joy Peyton shares specific information about such schools in both the podcast and in her biography and resource page. She also shares how you can help identify and connect such schools so that their service, impact, and quality can all be enhanced.

 

Published: Wednesday, April 8, 2020