New York State Association for Bilingual Education

In 2014-15 I had the honor of serving as the President of NYSABE. The organization brings together educators, families and communities to advocate, network, lead, disseminate information and provide professional development. The annual conference theme during my presidency was “Building Bridges: Bilingual Education Across Borders.” We focused on bridging geographic, educational, and generational borders in our field.

During my time with NYSABE, I became part of a like-minded team of professors, doctoral students, administrators, and teacher leaders. Together as CUNY-NYSIEB (New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals), we worked from the theory of translanguaging, which has been taken up in profound ways in schools in New York, the United States, and internationally.