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

Here are some post-conference updates for you: 

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    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.
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  • 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. 

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Immersive Professional Development: How an educator trip to Guatemala can inform family collaboration and lesson design LIMITED
Saturday March 8, 2025 12:30pm - 1:15pm EST
Room 4
This session designed for all educators explores the key takeaways from a professional development trip for educators to Guatemala, the home country of many students in a particular Massachusetts district. We will discuss how this trip led to a deeper understanding of students’ backgrounds, which helped teachers unite with families to advocate for their students and for bilingualism. We will also discuss how the knowledge gained about Guatemalan culture was used in lessons with a diverse group of students. At the end of this session, participants will have a deeper appreciation of the critical role of educator trips as a form of professional development. These trips help teachers partner with families and can lead to the development of curricular materials in the classroom to support students.

Lunchtime Talks are informal conversations led by peers, colleagues, and professionals on specific topics. Anyone is welcome to join a Lunchtime Talk at their leisure. Some attendees may choose to bring their meal to Lunchtime Talks. View all offered Lunchtime Talks here.
Presenters
avatar for Olivia Barbieri

Olivia Barbieri

WL Spanish Teacher, Lexington High, Lexington PS, MA
Olivia Barbieri is a Spanish Teacher at Lexington High School, where she teaches Spanish 3 at both the college prep and honors levels. Previously, she was a middle school Spanish Language Arts (SLA) teacher in a Spanish-English Dual Language program, where she created curriculum for... Read More →
Saturday March 8, 2025 12:30pm - 1:15pm EST
Room 4 UMass Amherst Henry M. Thomas III Center at Springfield, 1500 Main St, Springfield, MA 01115
  Lunchtime Talk
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