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Reading is Fundamental! Exploring the Joy of Literacy Through Drag Story Hours

Lindsay Eanet2023-06-20T12:15:52-05:00

This post is part of our ongoing "Language and Culture Lenses" series, where the IRC team discusses trends in education impacting our communities through language and cultural lenses, and how these conversations intersect with our vision of a world where every child's languages and cultures are affirmed, every teacher's practice is reflective and responsive, and every school's systems and policies are inclusive and equitable. You can view the entire series here. For years, libraries across the country and beyond have hosted drag story hours, events where drag performers in colorful attire read aloud to young children. Sometimes, the books have [...]

ISBE Enacts Emergency Rules For Licensure of Bilingual Educators

2020-08-05T12:27:15-05:00

ISBE has fielded numerous questions regarding lack of licensed bilingual education teachers for the upcoming school year. Individuals’ inability to receive licensure has centered around that fact that many licensure testing centers, which are operating at partial capacity and only offer the target language proficiency tests a few times per year, have no available testing slots for the remainder of this summer and into the fall. This prevents educators from taking the requisite test to receive licensure prior to the start of the school year. ISBE has enacted emergency rules to enable districts to employ individuals as bilingual educators this fall. [...]