Partner With Us

As a collective, we seek to be in community with teachers, education leaders, researchers, educational organizations, and other thought partners in examining our experiences and perceptions–our ideologies–that impact the way we teach and lead. We explore ways to learn about the children in our learning spaces and to center their languages, multiple literacies, identities, and experiences in our classrooms and beyond.

Topics include culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogies, translanguaging theory and pedagogy, anti-racist anti-bias (ABAR) education, social justice education, countering dominant narratives and growing counter-narrative perspectives, poetry study, language and identity study, bilingualism/multilingualism in education, and teaching and learning with emergent bilingual learners.

Learning En Comunidad

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Curriculum

Applying a critical bilingual literacies approach, Drs. Carla España and Luz Yadira Herrera support grade teams, schools, and districts with a texts, topics, translanguaging lens to create culturally and linguistically sustaining curriculum and pedagogy across K-12 and teacher education programs.

Bilingual Programming

Conduct an inventory of classroom and school libraries, creating multimodal text sets with Drs. Carla España and Luz Yadira Herrera. En Comunidad Collective works with schools and children’s book publishers to develop libraries/collections and teacher’s guides.

Spanish as a Heritage Language

La enseñanza en español en las escuelas intermedias y secundarias tienen una larga tradición que a veces ignora los temas culturales y celebran el español de España. Las Dras. Carla España y Luz Yadira Herrera podrán guiar estos programas para desarrollar instrucción que toma en cuenta las prácticas culturales y lingüísticas de los estudiantes en el contexto de su comunidad y del español de diferentes partes del mundo.

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Libraries

Whether you are looking to streamline your Bilingual Programs across a school or launch a Bilingual Dual Language Program, En Comunidad Collective provides expertise and guidance for schools, districts, and organizations.

Keynotes

En Comunidad Collective will inspire and guide your learning community to consider social justice issues and critical bilingual literacies. For those who teach language-minoritized students, to those who lead schools and districts with bilingual and multilingual learners, ECC draws upon years of expertise and personal experience on literacies, learning and advocacy.

Media

En Comunidad Collective shares their expertise with audiences through podcasts, radio interviews, guest blog posts, webinars, and informational videos for state departments of education, panels or websites.