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Students are now living in a culturally and linguistically diverse world and our education systems are making strides to embrace it through the development and implementation of dual language programs.
Launched in 2019, the IGNITE program aims to introduce William & Mary to a more diverse pool of faculty prospects while providing them with information, tools and a network with which to start their academic careers.
Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award: Katherine Barko-Alva, William & Mary assistant professor and director of English as a second language/bilingual education at the School of Education, will be recognized with the 2021 Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award during a virtual Charter Day celebration Feb. 11. Photo by Stephen Salpukas
Photo - of - by Jennifer L. Williams | February 11, 2021
Katherine Barko-Alva still remembers being that student in the classroom, learning English at the same time as the other material being covered.
That’s the main reason she is so thorough in preparing teachers at William & Mary to work with English-language learners, emergent bilingual and multilingual learners, she said. And why she continues to follow her passion to serve and learn from multilingual K-12 students and their families in our local communities.
Education professor s new book a resource for teaching culturally diverse learners
Educators of culturally diverse learners have a powerful new resource packed into a 192-page book co-authored by Socorro Herrera, Kansas State University College of Education professor and director of the Center for Intercultural and Multilingual Advocacy.
Herrera was the lead author of Equity in School-Parent Partnerships: Cultivating Community and Family Trust in Culturally Diverse Classrooms, which was published and released Nov. 30 by Teachers College Press in New York. The book was co-authored by Lisa Porter, assistant professor of sociology at James Madison University, and Katherine Barko-Alva, assistant professor and director of the ESL/bilingual education program at the William & Mary School of Education.