Why should anyone cooperate with an abduction by someone in a white tee shirt, jeans, and a mask, who clearly has received no training?

Do something!

I am speaking this Thursday at Art of Belonging: Annual Migrant and Arts Program State Conference 2025 in Yakima, WA, along with Robert Reichardt from Augenblick, Palaich and Associates (APA Consulting). Please check out our talk if you're attending the event! - cross-posted

Don’t despair about the SCOTUS ruling on universal injunctions. CASA, whose case ended with that ruling, shows the agility and flexibility I recommend my clients cultivate in this era - they pivoted on a dime and redefined their case as a class action suit. This is how you do it!

This year’s run of Harmonic Multilingual Program Design is a wrap! Such a great experience coaching and guiding these leadership teams from seven school districts. We will offer next year - stay tuned for details!

Urdu and Spanish speaking teachers needed - Please share to help Skokie 73.5 fill these two positions!

So cool to be able to faciltate multilingual program design efforts in the elementary school district that raised me up! Thanks to Des Plaines CCSD 62 for inviting me!

Wrapped up a 3-day workshop series in Crystal Lake School District 47 on the topic of #mutilinguallearners and #MTSS and #SPED. Great experience with hard working, dedicated professionals. Thanks to Rebecca Morton and Holly Lyman for inviting me to share my expertise!

Trump's Proposed Budget for FY26

OELA,Title III, Migrant Ed, & Equity Assist. Centers - gone! Title I would be severely cut. SPED will have level funding. Remember, budgets are value statements. They'll use reconciliation to pass. Call your elected officials NOW. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

At Claude Goldenberg’s session at #TESOL25 and he is blowing my mind, talking at length about The American Tradition: Bilingual Education. I knew this to be true, but he laid out all the details. A smaller percentage of children are currently, in 2025, receiving bilingual education than in 1900.

💥 Hope to see you in Long Beach! 💥 I'll be presenting on Wednesday, March 19 at 3:30 PM 💥 Tweaking for Equity: MTSS & SPED For Multilingual Learners (MLs). 💥 #TESOL25

Veronica Ramos of ¡WEPA! líbros ™ wins participant engagement leader at #NABE2025. Why am I not surprised

If I had a dollar for every Margo Gottlieb presentation I’ve attended, I could have retired a year earlier! I think my first one was at the Radisson Hotel in Lincolnwood, IL (the purple hotel) back in 1983 when she was involved in Project Rainbow for Elgin U-46. #NABE25

Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government Former followers of the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ say a planned 'neo-reactionary' hollowing out of government is happening in real time

Silicon Valley sounds alarm and sent a memo to Congress. bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/s...

If you explain to someone their Miranda Rights, are you helping that person evade law enforcement?

It’s called state sponsored stochastic terrorism. Give Rebecca Lowenhaupt at Boston College a call. She did research on the topic - impact of harsh political rhetoric on children.

☄️I’m presenting! ☄️Friday, February 21. ☄️A High Quality Program for Newcomers: What’s Needed☄️Stop by, say hi, and stay for proven design, strategies, and exchange of ideas☄️

Joint Position Statement in Support of Immigrant Communities Joint Position Statement in Support of Immigrant Communities from English Learners Advocacy Council in Higher Education (ELACHE), Illinois Association of Multilingual and Multicultural Education (IAMM...

Illinois stands up for immigrants.

Reported ICE visit to Chicago school was actually Secret Service, officials say Chicago Public Schools prevented federal officers from from going into an elementary school on Chicago’s Southwest Side Friday and talking to students, according to school officials.

An update on what happened in Chicago yesterday. Since when does the Secret Service visit an elementary school to speak to a child? That is NOT allowed without a signed judicial warrant. Reported ICE visit to Chicago school was actually Secret Service, officials say.

An update to what we thought was an ICE raid at Hamline. Secret Service agents represented that they were ICE agents. C-R-A-Z-Y. blockclubchicago.org

This school is in Chicago. Most schools in Chicago and the burbs have been preparing for ICE agents trying to enter campus. We had a raid in the burbs during the first administration where they locked people in a shopping mall. We have NOT forgotten. Principal Natasha Ortega is my hero tonight!

ICE Agents Denied Entry At Chicago Elementary School, Officials Say Immigration agents arrived at Hamline Elementary School in Back of the Yards Friday, officials said. CPS administrators followed protocols and didn't let immigration agents in.

Kudos and much love to the folks at Hamline. This is how how you do it! Hamline Elementary was one of the schools I visited frequently when I worked for the Civil Rights division at the US DOJ.

Immigrant Students' Rights: A Guide for Schools' Front-Office Staff A downloadable guide to help school staff familiarize themselves with immigrant students' rights and schools' responsibilities to them.

Guidance for school secretaries and front office staff.

Trump administration strips schools, churches of immigration enforcement protections The memo rescinds a Biden administration guideline that created "protected areas" consisting of places where "children gather, disaster or emergency relief sites, and social services establishments."

Sanctuary for immigrants in schools, houses of worship, and health care facilities has been rescinded. These spaces are no longer safe. www.npr.org/2025/01/21/n...

Trump’s Deportation Plan Is Said to Start Next Week in Chicago (Gift Article) The size of the planned immigration raids is unclear, but they would be the opening step in the president-elect’s goal of overseeing the largest deportation program in history.

Here we go....Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...

Contemplating change? Want to increase capacity? Grow competency? Improve teaching and learning conditions? Re-calibrate context, expectations, and mindsets? Support a new leadership hire?

Slow down. Savor the moment. Be present. Enjoy the holidays.

LANDMARK Victory! GPO and WEP repealed | NEA A win forty years in the making, NEA secures full retirement benefits for educators

GREAT news for educators - WEP has been repealed!!