Challenge Linguistic Bias, Decenter English, & Build Inclusive Spaces for the Emergent Bilingual

10:30am-12pm

Presenter: Nicole Carey, Founder & President of the Indy Equity Collaborative & Allison Segarra Hansen, Assistant Professor of Education

Session Type: Workshop

Topic: Identities and intersectionality

Description

In this workshop we will explore the inextricable link between language and identity. We will facilitate an exploration of social identities including an interrogation of participants’ relationship with language(s). This will allow participants to locate unidentified bias, preference for English, and/or potential complicity in linguicism. In addition, we will provide multiple strategies to build inclusive environments for the emergent bilingual including culturally responsive pedagogy, specifically highlighting translanguaging as an ideology and a scaffold. This workshop will include individual reflection, small group break-out sessions (if possible), lecture, strategy sharing and practice, etc.

Facilitators

Nicole Carey

Founder & President of the Indy Equity Collaborative

nicole@indyequity.org

Nicole Carey is a fearless social entrepreneur & advocate for intersectional justice. She is the founder and CEO of two Indianapolis organizations. Anda Spanish, an organization that is dedicated to introducing language and cultural exploration in early childhood education, was founded in 2017. The Indy Equity Collaborative is an educational equity consulting firm whose mission involves eliminating the barriers that prevent teachers and administrators from delivering quality education to culturally and linguistically diverse students. She provides culturally responsive curricula and supports teachers in reaffirming the identities of their students. As a visionary, she dreams of better schools for children, reimagining them as culturally affirming places of safety and creativity for all Black and Brown students.

Allison Segarra Hansen

Assistant Professor of Education, Marian University

asegarrahansen@marian.edu

Allison Segarra Hansen completed her undergraduate degree in Elementary Education at Saint Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana. She received her master's degree in Literacy, Culture and Language Education from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is currently a doctoral student in the Urban Education PhD program at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.

Allison began her career as a kindergarten-first grade founding teacher at a charter school in East Chicago, IN. She has served in many roles throughout her fifteen-year career in education including: Literacy Specialist, Response to Intervention Coordinator, English Learning Director, Special Education Director, Director of Student Services, and Educational Consultant. Prior to coming to Marian University, Allison was Assistant Professor of Education and Education Department Chair at Saint Joseph's College.

Currently, Allison is Assistant Professor of Education in Klipsch Educators College at Marian University. She co-teaches community engaged service-learning courses as well as English as a New Language certification courses. In her prior role as Director of Clinical Experiences, Allison restructured existing coursework, developed new courses, renewed program benchmarks, and streamlined clinical experiences. She worked closely with local community and school partners to create mutually beneficial placements for teacher candidates. Her passion and future research agenda is community engaged critical service learning as the conduit for culturally responsive pedagogy in teacher preparation.