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Thank you for attending MABE’s Annual Dual Language Bilingual Education Conference! 

Here are some post-conference updates for you: 

  • How did we do? There are two different ways you can help us improve.
    1) Conference Evaluation. Please complete the MABE 2025 Conference Evaluation. Once this evaluation is completed, your MABE 2025 Conference Attendance Certificate (PDP) will be emailed to you. We truly value your feedback as we are always striving to improve our services and best help our members.
    2) Session Feedback Form. After each session you’ve added to your schedule, you will be prompted to complete a quick Feedback Form that is embedded on Sched. Open the sessions you attended and scroll down past the description and speakers to access the brief evaluation.

  • We saw plenty of people taking pictures - and we took some too! Please add your images and videos to the MABE 2025 Conference Album or email them to admin@mabene.org – and feel free to download any you want for yourself, too. 

  • THANK YOU to our sponsors (explore their pages for some freebies), volunteers and conference committee, and presenters, without which today wouldn’t have been possible! Big shoutout to our Keynote Kate Menken, the UMass Center at Springfield and Tower Square for hosting, and to Windham Public School Teachers Band for live music, especially Carlos Rivera-Ocasio and Enoch Robbins for lending their sound system for the Opening and Closing Ceremony. 

  • Sched will be up through the month of April so that you can learn more about us, get some resources (for DLE tools and research), and explore session details. After that, session materials will be uploaded to MABE’s Member’s Only Pages. 

  • You have until Saturday, March 22, 2025 to get your own conference shirt, if you haven’t already. 

  • SHARE #MABE2025: Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn: @MABEnortheast

Thank you for sharing and learning with us! We hope to work with you again soon. 
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Guidance for Implementation of Dual Language Bilingual Education FULL
Saturday March 8, 2025 2:10pm - 2:50pm EST
Room 10
Excited to share the latest draft of the incredible work MABE and DESE's Office of Language Acquisition are doing to update our guidance on Dual Language Bilingual Education in Massachusetts. This update is a direct result of a year-long landscape analysis conducted to better understand how the state agency can best support districts implementing bilingual programming for students. Feedback from the audience is kindly requested to improve the guidance to meet the unique needs of our DLBE districts in Massachusetts. 
Presenters
avatar for Sibel Hughes

Sibel Hughes

Office of Lang. Acquisition Asst. Dir., MA Dept. of Elem. & Sec. Ed.
Sibel Hughes started her career in Turkey, where she spent ten years teaching English Literature and English as a world language before she moved to the United States in 2001 and served as an ESL teacher, ELE department director and professional development provider in Arizona and... Read More →
avatar for Susan McGilvray-Rivet

Susan McGilvray-Rivet

Retired Principal, MABE Consultant, MA
avatar for Elissa Washburn

Elissa Washburn

Program Coord. & Bilingual Consultant, MABE
I have been an educator in a dual language education program in the urban public school setting, 50-50 partner classroom teacher, 80-20 self-contained classroom teacher, English as a Second Language teacher in a dual language program, language development coach, and dual language... Read More →
avatar for Meg Burns

Meg Burns

Director of Professional Learning, MABE
Dr. Meg Burns is MABE’s Director of Professional Learning. She brings expertise in language acquisition, early language and literacy development, biliteracy instruction, whiteness studies, culturally responsive pedagogy, family and community engagement, and qualitative research... Read More →
avatar for Phyllis Hardy

Phyllis Hardy

Executive Director, MABE
Phyllis Hardy is Executive Director of the Multistate Association for Bilingual Education-Northeast, Inc. MABE views Bilingualism and multiculturalism as assets that provide cognitive, social, emotional, educational, and employment advantages for all students. We identify, promote... Read More →
avatar for Elenita Irizarry-Ramos

Elenita Irizarry-Ramos

Sr. Strategist of ML Learning & DLE, MA Dept. of Elem. & Sec. Ed.
I am a dedicated educator, strategist, and advocate with over a decade of experience supporting multilingual learners. As the Senior Strategist for Multilingual Learning and Dual Language Education at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, I collaborate... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:10pm - 2:50pm EST
Room 10 UMass Amherst Henry M. Thomas III Center at Springfield, 1500 Main St, Springfield, MA 01115
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