12th Annual Community-Based Heritage Language Schools Conference

The conference is for program directors and administrators of community-based heritage language schools; members of the language communities involved in these schools; and directors and leaders in public, private, and charter schools who are interested in working with community-based heritage language schools.

REGISTRATION is now OPEN (please share widely):
bit.ly/heritagelanguage2025

Visit the conference website to see the full conference schedule and learn about our plenary speakers:
https://www.american.edu/soe/iie/heritage-language-conference.cfm


Plenary speakers:

Dr. Jin Sook Lee, Professor of Education, Associate Dean of Graduate Division, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
"Bridging Resources and Relationships: Strengthening Community-Based Schools through University-Community Partnerships"

Tom Welch, NCSSFL's Neural Network
"Every Learner, Every Language: Personalizing Progress with a FILL approach in Community-Based Schools"


For more information about the "Coalition of Community-Based Heritage Language Schools" see https://www.heritagelanguageschools.org/

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