This year’s Habla Teacher Institute will demonstrate how we can create spaces that amplify our students’ stories, lived worlds, languages, and their creative and intellectual capacities. Teachers will receive a set of concrete, interdisciplinary tools that can be applied to different age groups and settings.  Experience what project-based, student-centered, hands-on learning can be. 

At this institute teachers will learn how to: 

• design a “translanguaging pedagogy” incorporating, fusing, and developing multiple languages in the classrooms space
• integrate “multiple modalities” in student work including visual, textual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning
• think beyond the traditional delivery approach of education to the “experience” approach designing engaging and inspirational experiences for all students
• bring strategies and activities that will engage all students and provide multiple opportunities for differentiated learning
• build a thriving and supportive classroom community that fosters kindness, care, and equity

The Habla Institute will be highly interactive and participatory. Sessions are hands-on workshops where participants will “learn by doing.” The event will culminate in an exhibition of work on the final day, modeling how we can make our students’ learning visible to our global education communities and classrooms.