Dual Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) with MILE
The Dual Language Team at MILE is comprised of teacher educators and researchers in dual language bilingual education who specialize in topics such as teacher education and professional development, literacy and biliteracy, pedagogy, assessment, and peer interaction. Members of the Dual Language Team at MILE combine their diverse backgrounds in research with their experience as former teachers and coaches in DLBE schools to collaborate with schools and districts as responsive learning partners.
MILE seeks collaborative partnerships with school districts in order to support and strengthen both developing and current DLBE programs. By facilitating collaborative professional development, MILE co-develops sustainable learning models that foreground the knowledge and experience of educators, school leaders, and communities in dual language programs. As a result, MILE offers varying levels of partnership.
Pictured: MILE team members and Baltimore City Public School faculty visit Oyster-Adams bilingual school in Washington, D.C.
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Facilitate collaboration and co-development of training models
Provide coaching for DLBE instructional leaders and classroom teachers
Foster professional learning communities
Co-develop, design, and implement professional learning opportunities for administrators and instructional personnel
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Teaching the fundamentals of DLBE
Building community and family engagement
Designing and facilitating PD in and for bilingual settings
Co-planning, prioritizing needs, and making cross-linguistic connections
Facilitating content and language integration
Differentiating PD for teachers of literacy in Spanish and English
Integrating literacy components across languages (reading, writing, oracy)
Designing and adapting a cross-linguistic curriculum
Developing oral language connected to rigorous academic content in two languages
Teaching meaningful engagement with valid bilingual assessment data
Providing language acquisition strategies