We just ended our 2nd Annual International Education Conference on Bilingual, Holistic and Sustainable Education this past Friday, July 1st, 2016. What an incredible success this event was! Dr. Fred Genesee joined our participants all the way from Montreal, Canada and we all came away with new insights and practical applications for the classroom. What an honor to spend two days with such an accomplished and renowned expert in the field of dual language education! A huge appreciation as well to all of our other session presenters: Dr. Eileen Waldschmidt and Dr. Irene Welch – both experts in dual language education and effective teaching and learning strategies with language learners and our huge group of classroom teachers and administrators who passionately shared their knowledge on areas that ran the gamut in bilingual, holistic and sustainable education. Incredible learning, dedicated professionals and much hope for an even brighter future in the world of progressive, international education!
Mark your calendars now for the 2017 BHS conference, when we will be welcoming Dr. Kathy Escamilla as our conference keynote. Dr. Escamilla has done groundbreaking work in the areas of simultaneous biliteracy and minority language students and has published two books and over 50 research articles throughout her career. We are already looking forward with great excitement to the conference on June 29-30 2017 and would like to remind our parent and school community that the BHS conference is open to all – parents, student teachers, community members and local, national and international educators. Together we can assure that the ideals of progressive education continue to grow and develop for the benefit of all of our local and global communities!