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Workshop - A New View on Classroom Assessment for Multilingual Learners

Join us in Honolulu, Hawaii for an interactive workshop:
“A New View on Classroom Assessment for Multilingual Learners”
March 8, 2025

Workshop Description

This workshop introduces participants to classroom assessment practices in multiple languages as an approach to enhance and support biliteracy instruction and multilingual learners. This session addresses a core contradiction in current assessment practices: while schools celebrate linguistic diversity, they still rely heavily on English-only, high-stakes tests, often leading to inequitable outcomes and missing opportunities for progress monitoring of language and content. Participants will focus on shifting the assessment narrative from a monolingual, deficit-based approach to one that values and promotes multilingualism as asset-based by exploring the central messages:

  • Classroom assessment is a process, not an event.
  • Classroom assessment must be inclusive of multiple languages/audiences (stepping out of our comfort zone to learn & grow).
  • Translanguaging, multimodalities, and multiliteracies enhance instruction and assessment.
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The details you need to join WCEPS in Hawaii

  • Featured author: Dr. Margo Gottlieb
  • Cost
    • $600, or
    • $650 for 1.5 CEU or 1.0 Graduate Credit
  • Date: March 8, 2025
  • Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm Hawaii Time
  • Location:
  • Audience: The workshop is ideal for a site-based team consisting of but not limited to any of the following roles: teachers, coaches, administrators, and stakeholders with key roles in supporting multilingual learner success. This workshop is adaptable across grade levels, content areas and bilingual program contexts.
  • All registrations include breakfast, lunch and a complimentary book, Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages: A Handbook for Teachers by Margo Gottlieb.
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Featured Author
Margo Gottlieb, Ph.D.

Margo Gottlieb, Ph.D., has devoted her professional career to improving educational opportunities for multilingual learners, their teachers and other educational leaders. Over the years she has been a language teacher and coordinator, a bilingual facilitator, a director of assessment and evaluation, and a consultant to school districts, states, publishers, governments, universities, and organizations. Margo was a Fulbright senior specialist in assessment and evaluation and was recognized in 2016 by TESOL International Association’s 50@50 as an individual who has made a significant contribution to the TESOL profession within the past 50 years.

Having traveled extensively, Margo has presented in Asia, Central America, Europe, Indonesia, the Middle East, North America, the Pacific, Singapore and South America, as well as across the United States.

Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages: A Handbook for Teachers by Margo Gottlieb

Get the book today

Dr. Gottlieb’s recent book, Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages: A Handbook for Teachers, serves as a resource for how to create assessment systems that enable understanding of the whole student, not just that fraction of the student only visible as an English learner. The book is available online, as well as in national and independent bookstores everywhere.

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Embassy Suites by Hilton
201 Beachwalk Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96815

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March 8, 2025
9:00am – 4:00pm Hawaii Time

Have questions?
educators@wceps.org