MLRC

Research Symposia: Argentina
2025-02-21 - 2025-02-22 | Lincoln – The American International School, Andrés Ferreyra 4073, La Lucila, Provincia de Buenos Aires, B1637AOQ, Argentina
The MLRC Research Symposia are two-day in-person workshops focused on 1) evidence about teaching multilingual learners and 2) designing action research projects. After the workshop, teams receive ongoing synchronous and asynchronous virtual support from the MLRC and from their fellow participants as they engage in action research projects to explore problems of practice in the local context.
Registration open now!
Pricing:
Early Bird : $450
Regular: $550

* Early registration ends December 20 at midnight Central time
**Regular registration ends February 7 at midnight Central time

MLRC Speaker Series: Trish Morita-Mullaney
2025-02-06 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Dr. Trish Morita-Mullaney from Purdue University will present “Lau and Brown at Odds? Historicizing Language Rights and Racial Integration for Transformative Education”
This talk will explore two landmark Supreme Court cases: Lau v. Nichols (1974) and Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Dr. Morita-Mullaney will examine how these cases intersected and sometimes conflicted in their approaches to racial and linguistic equity in education. The presentation will focus on the perspectives of Chinese American educators and activists, offering insights into the complexities of building both racial and linguistic equity in our educational systems. Register in advance.

Research Symposium: Italy
2025-01-18 08:00 - 2025-01-19 17:00 UTC | Marymount International School Rome, Via di Villa Lauchli, 180,, Roma, 00191, Italy
The MLRC Research Symposia are two-day in-person workshops focused on 1) evidence about teaching multilingual learners and 2) designing action research projects. After the workshop, teams receive ongoing synchronous and asynchronous virtual support from the MLRC and from their fellow participants as they engage in action research projects to explore problems of practice in the local context.
Registration open now!
Pricing:
Early Bird : $450
Regular: $550

* Early registration ends November 22 at midnight Central time
**Regular registration ends January 3 at midnight Central time

Speaker Series: Xuan Zhou
2025-01-09 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Xuan Zhou presents Urban STEM Teachers’ Social-Emotional Competencies and Teaching Efficacy in Post-Pandemic Workplace on January 9th, 2025. This study investigated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics teachers’ social-emotional competencies, professional development in social-emotional learning, and teaching self-efficacy in urban secondary schools serving many English learners. Findings revealed significant gaps in teaching self-efficacy and social-emotional competencies following the pandemic, with limited engagement in professional development focused on social-emotional learning.
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This study examined the status of STEM teachers’ Social-Emotional Competencies (SEC), PD engagement in social-emotional learning (SEL), and level of teaching self-efficacy (TSE) in urban secondary public schools that serve students with a large proportion of English learners. Results show that there are significant gaps between the current and optimal status of urban STEM teachers’ TSE and SEC during the post-pandemic workplace. Moreover, this study found urban STEM teachers lacked PD engagement in SEL during the post-pandemic, and their PD engagement in SEL was identified as having significant impacts on the promotion of STEM teachers’ TSE via their SEC.

Webinar: Accelerating Improvement through Action Research
2024-12-10 09:30 - 10:30 (America/Chicago)
We’re thrilled to partner with AMISA to bring you an insightful webinar on supporting multilingual learners. Join Jon Nordmeyer, MLRC School Network Director, and Dr. Esther Bettney Heidt, MLRC School Network Researcher, to discover how research-based strategies can help you create a more inclusive and effective learning environment for your students. Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to enhance your approach to multilingual education!
Research is essential to design, evaluate, and improve learning – and connecting practical wisdom with systemic tools of inquiry closes the gap between research and practice. Many international school leaders want to develop their school’s capacity to engage with and in educational research, and accreditation standards often point to collaborative inquiry and action research as school improvement strategies. This session will share insights from projects designed and implemented at MLRC partner schools as well as future opportunities for international schools to participate in research. The MLRC School Network is a university-based, research-practice partnership committed to learning about and improving outcomes for multilingual students.
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Speaker Series: Megan Montee
2024-12-05 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
U.S. K-12 English language and world language education are often two divergent areas of policy and practice. Using data from a policy analysis, Montee will discuss how U.S. language education can support of multilingual development for all students.
Registration required.

Research Symposium: Vietnam
2024-11-23 08:00 - 2024-11-24 17:00 UTC | Saigon South International School, 78 Nguyễn Đức Cảnh, Tân Phong, Quận 7, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, 700000, Viet Nam
The MLRC Research Symposia are two-day in-person workshops focused on 1) evidence about teaching multilingual learners and 2) designing action research projects. After the workshop, teams receive ongoing synchronous and asynchronous virtual support from the MLRC and from their fellow participants as they engage in action research projects to explore problems of practice in the local context.
Registration now closed. Join our mailing list to be the first to find out about 2025-2026 dates!
Pricing:
Early Bird : $450
Regular: $550

*Early registration ends September 20th at midnight Central Time
**Regular registration ends November 8th at midnight Central Time

MLRC Speaker Series: Madigan Peercy et al
2024-11-07 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Megan Madigan Peercy, Jessica Crawford, Daisy Fredricks, and Loren Jones present Moving Humanizing Principles to Practice: How We’re Using Core Practices for Teaching MLLs. Registration required.
This webinar provides a praxis-oriented follow-up to the October talk on core practices for teaching multilingual students. We have found that teacher educators often welcome opportunities to hear about the details of one other’s pedagogical decision-making, but rarely get to gather these insights. In this webinar, we discuss how we are using the core practices research and materials in our own teaching. We describe the pedagogical work the core practices entail and how approaching methods courses in this way has changed our teaching with different kinds of teacher populations. We also share empirical, theoretical, and pedagogical considerations and next steps in this work.

MLRC Speaker Series: Madigan Peercy et al
2024-10-17 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Megan Madigan Peercy, Johanna Tigert, Daisy Fredricks, & Melanie Hardy-Skeberdis present Leveraging Core Practices to Support Teachers’ Humanizing Pedagogy with MLLs. Registration required.
In this webinar, we share an overview of the six core practices for teaching multilingual students that we have developed in collaboration with early career teachers. These practices emerged in response to the gap that Faltis & Valdes (2016) identified regarding the lack of direction offered to teacher educators about “the kinds of knowledge, skills, and inclinations teachers need to develop in order to be good and effective teachers and advocates for students who are speaking a language other than English” (p. 549). We highlight the core practices, share classroom examples, discuss how they support teachers’ humanizing pedagogy with MLLs, offer resources for teacher and teacher educator development, and describe our current and future efforts to further this research.

Speaker Series: Jackie E. Relyea
2024-09-05 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
The MLRC Speaker Series highlights current research related to the teaching and learning of multilingual learners. Every first Thursday of the month, a researcher or team of researchers is invited to share insights, findings or learnings from their research. Recordings are posted within one week of the event.
How can young multilingual learners excel in reading and writing in English while building content knowledge in content-area classrooms? This presentation shares evidence from a randomized controlled trial on the Tier 1 content literacy intervention known as the Model of Reading Engagement (MORE). It highlights the effectiveness of MORE’s integrated approach in improving reading and writing outcomes for multilingual learners and their English-proficient peers.
Please register in advance.

Speaker Series: Haiwen Chu
2024-08-01 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
The MLRC Speaker Series highlights current research related to the teaching and learning of multilingual learners. Every first Thursday of the month, a researcher or team of researchers is invited to share insights, findings or learnings from their research. Recordings are posted within one week of the event.
Please register in advance.

Esther Bettney Heidt presents on DIME Framework at NALDIC
2024-05-07 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London)
Esther Bettney Heidt, PhD, MLRC School Network Researcher, will be presenting a webinar on May 7th about decolonization as a tool to make space for diverse linguistic identities and practices within international schools. This event is free and open to all interested educators. Thank you to NALDIC’s International Schools SIG for the invitation!
Register in advance
12-1pm London, UK (+1)
6-7am Central Time Zone (-5)
8-9pm JST (+9)

Research Symposium: Guatemala City, Guatemala
2024-01-27 - 2024-01-28 | The American School of Guatemala, 11 calle 15-79 zona 15 Vista Hermosa 3, Guatemala City, Guatemala
What is a Research Symposium?
The MLRC Research Symposium is a unique two-day opportunity for international teachers and leaders to engage deeply in existing research about multilingual learners, connect with global education scholars, inquire together about shared problems of practice and discuss innovative strategies for serving multilingual learners.
The MLRC Research Symposium provides an opportunity for you and your colleagues to:

Engage with research by learning about existing evidence and exploring the research process
Share your own expertise with other schools and with the MLRC
Learn from other participants and from the research expertise of the MLRC
Identify a focus issue for your school to analyze both strengths and goals for improvement
Collaborate with other schools to help prioritize issues for future MLRC research

Register now!
Regular registration:
$500 for MLRC School Network members
$600 for non-members

Not a member yet? Learn more about the MLRC School Network!

Additional Info
Lodging recommendations: AC Marriott & Vista Quince
Participants will be provided with coffee and light snacks in the morning and afternoon and a full lunch meal each day.

Featured Partner
Read more about the January 2024 MLRC Research Symposium host school, American School of Guatemala, our August 2023 Featured Partner.

Research Symposium: Singapore
2023-12-02 - 2023-12-03 | XCL World Academy, 2 Yishun Street 42, 768039, Singapore
What is a Research Symposium?
The MLRC Research Symposium is a unique two-day opportunity for international teachers and leaders to engage deeply in existing research about multilingual learners, connect with global education scholars, inquire together about shared problems of practice and discuss innovative strategies for serving multilingual learners.
The MLRC Research Symposium provides an opportunity for you and your colleagues to:

Engage with research by learning about existing evidence and exploring the research process
Share your own expertise with other schools and with the MLRC
Learn from other participants and from the research expertise of the MLRC
Identify a focus issue for your school to analyze both strengths and goals for improvement
Collaborate with other schools to help prioritize issues for future MLRC research

Not a member yet? Learn more about the MLRC School Network!

Additional Info
Lodging recommendations:

Oasia Hotel Downtown
Oasia Hotel Novena

Participants will be provided with coffee and light snacks in the morning and afternoon and a full lunch meal each day.

Research Symposium: Barcelona, Spain
2023-11-18 - 2023-11-19 | American School of Barcelona, c/ Jaume Balmes 7, 08950 Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
What is a Research Symposium?
The MLRC Research Symposium is a unique two-day opportunity for international teachers and leaders to engage deeply in existing research about multilingual learners, connect with global education scholars, inquire together about shared problems of practice and discuss innovative strategies for serving multilingual learners.
The MLRC Research Symposium provides an opportunity for you and your colleagues to:

Engage with research by learning about existing evidence and exploring the research process
Share your own expertise with other schools and with the MLRC
Learn from other participants and from the research expertise of the MLRC
Identify a focus issue for your school to analyze both strengths and goals for improvement
Collaborate with other schools to help prioritize issues for future MLRC research

Register now!
Regular registration:
$500 for MLRC School Network members
$600 for non-members

Not a member yet? Learn more about the MLRC School Network!

Additional Info
Lodging recommendations:
To stay within walking distance, look into places in Esplugues and Sant Just
Closest neighborhoods still in the city: Les Corts, Maria Cristina
Airbnb, NH Hotels, and Derby Hotels

Participants will be provided with coffee and light snacks in the morning and afternoon and a full lunch meal each day.

Featured Partners

Meet our November 2023 Featured Partner, Elisabet Pladevall Ballester, who will join us in Barcelona as our first glocal scholar.

Read more about the November 2023 MLRC Research Symposium host school, American School of Barcelona, our July 2023 Featured Partner.
