Spring 2025
Volume 1 of 2

50th Annual ITBE Convention

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Thank you for joining us at our 50th Annual ITBE Convention! See photos from the event below!


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Graduate Scholarship Winner!

Inna Titova

National Louis University


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Advocacy

ITBE-BE

Click to read more about what ITBE-BE is currently doing in terms of advocacy! 

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Thank You to Our Sponsors

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Our 50th Annual Convention was a wonderful success! Thank you to all our attendees and presenters. A very special thank you to our amazing donors for making this event possible:
  • SummitK12 - Bronze Sponsor
  • Burlington English -Bronze Sponsor
  • Elli -Bronze Sponsor
  • Subject.com -Silver Sponsor
  • Person - Silver Sponsor

How would you handle this situation?

Aaron David Mermelstein

The following activity is a problem-based learning (PBL) activity for the communicative language teaching (CLT) classroom.  

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Unmasking the Monolingual Bias

Lillian Ardell, Ph.D.

Speaker, Consultant, Founder
www.languagematters.org  
Mar 24
This is the second post in my “Disrupting the Monolingual Bias Series”.  Click over to my blog to read up on all the posts but… only after you read this one.

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Keeping Families Connected: The Often Overlooked Power of Bilingual Education

Inna Titova

When we talk about bilingual education, we often focus on academic outcomes—literacy, cognitive development, or long-term success. But in my experience, its most powerful impact is something much more personal: keeping families connected.

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Classroom Success Stories: Using Translanguaging in Classrooms to Amplify the Linguistic Strengths of Multilingual Students

Marjeta Bejdo

In this article, I share how I use translanguaging in my class to create a safe classroom environment for my multilingual students by drawing on their whole linguistic repertoire.

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3 Activities to Level Up Student Writing Using AI

Caio Gomes

ESL Teacher
Clinton Rosette Middle School
As an ESL teacher and Multilingual Mentor at DeKalb School District 428, I've always been on the lookout for innovative strategies to boost engagement and improve the reading and writing skills of my students, particularly long-term English Learners (ELs).

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