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Spring 2025

Professional Development Series #4

Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogy: 

Effective Strategies for Language-Based Instruction Using a Learner-Centered Approach

 

FREE Virtual Seminar 

May 31, 2025 @ 8:30 AM - 12 PM

 

Keynote Presentation Summary

In her presentation, "Culturally & Linguistically Responsive / Relevant / Sustaining,"
Dr. Elisabeth Chan discusses classroom methods of challenging deficit-based systems with asset and community-based approaches: 

  • Building foundational knowledge of multilingual learners' home languages and practicing culturally sustaining pedagogy 
  • Offering translanguaging space for their linguistic repertoire and employing multimodality for their engagement
  • Implementing integrated approaches for content and language, incorporating untapped funds of knowledge - the lived histories of community members - into core curriculum

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Elisabeth Chan

Professor, Northern Virginia Community College

A photo of Dr. Elisabeth Chan as she smiles at the camera.

Elisabeth Chan has nearly 20 years of experience as an English language educator. She has advocated for, presented, researched, and published on social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), for which she draws upon her lived experiences as a second/fourth-generation Chinese American from the U.S. She served on TESOL International Association's Board of Directors from 2022-2025. Currently, she is co-editor for a 2026 TESOL Journey special issue on critical race praxis in English language teacher education.