Sibel Hughes's schedule for 2025 MABE Dual Language Bilingual Education Conference

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.
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Thank you for sharing and learning with us! We hope to work with you again soon.

Sibel Hughes

MA Dept. of Elem. & Sec. Ed.

Office of Lang. Acquisition Asst. Dir.

About me

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 Texas. Since joining DESE in 2013 Sibel has led several high-priority initiatives. Most prominently, Sibel was a leader of DESE’s work on the 2017 Language Opportunity for Our Kids (LOOK) Act, creating and revising ELE regulations, leading the LOOK Act Steering Committee, and updating or developing guidance documents and compliance criteria for successful implementation of the LOOK Act requirements. During her tenure as the EL Compliance Coordinator and later as Assistant Director of the Office of Language Acquisition, Sibel has focused on fostering educational equity for multilingual learners and centering student, family, and teacher voices in adopting policies pertaining the education and services for English learners.

My Presenters Sessions

2:10pm EST

Guidance for Implementation of Dual Language Bilingual Education Room 10Sibel Hughes • Susan McGilvray-Rivet • Elissa Washburn • Meg Burns • Phyllis Hardy • Elenita Irizarry-Ramos