To help all students thrive, we need to move from simply recognizing the benefits of diversity to creating a mutually responsive and asset-oriented learning environment. With approximately five million emergent bilingual students in public schools across the United States, it is more important than ever to refocus curricula, pedagogies, and classroom environments to value and include our diverse student population.
Join Lexia educational expert Maya Goodall for this edWebinar as she explains the evolution of equitable cultural inclusion in the classroom, and how you too can develop a culturally sustaining pedagogy. With examples from the guiding principles behind Lexia® English Language Development™, Maya explains how to cultivate not just culturally responsive practices, but ones that are culturally sustaining.
This edWebinar will be of interest to K-12 teachers and school and district leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.
About the Presenter
Maya Goodall, Senior Director of Emergent Bilingual Curriculum at Lexia Learning, has worked in education for over 20 years, teaching both nationally and internationally. Maya has a rich professional background that includes teaching in the classroom, coaching, training, and implementing and designing curricula with measurable outcomes. She founded Lingual Learning, a curriculum company dedicated to helping students become confidently bilingual. Maya speaks three languages and holds an M.Ed. and MA in applied linguistics.
