Over the past few weeks, the IRC has asked members of our community to nominate Illinois teachers working with multicultural, multilingual students who are going above and beyond, and now, we’re celebrating them and highlighting their work. Keep an eye out for these features in the coming months – and if you’d like to nominate someone, email leanet@cntrmail.org. Next up is Yesenia Reyes, an instructional coach at Barry Elementary, a dual language school in Chicago.  Says Babette Moeller, who nominated her: “For her dedication to help all students, including multilingual learners and students with disabilities, achieve high-quality learning outcomes in mathematics, and for [...]

Dear Friends, Welcome to the June 2022 edition of the Resource Roundup, a monthly newsletter from the IRC, packed with readings, recommendations and resources you can use in your classroom or school community. If you have a resource you think would be valuable to share for this round-up, please email Lindsay Eanet at leanet@cntrmail.org with a link. We are thinking of educators & families across the country as they continue to process last week's devastating tragedy in Uvalde, Texas. In this edition of the Roundup, we wanted to share some resources for talking about school violence with students, and showing up for students—and for [...]

Welcome to the May 2022 edition of the Resource Roundup, a monthly series from the IRC, packed with readings, recommendations and resources you can use in your classroom or school community. If you have a resource you think would be valuable to share for this round-up, please email Lindsay Eanet at leanet@cntrmail.org with a link. We are always open to suggestions of ways the IRC can continue to be a resource for educators serving linguistically and culturally diverse learners. If you have ideas, we encourage you to reach out! From Our IRC Specialists & Staff Bilingual Parents Video Library Hyperdoc: Creating Multilingual, [...]

Dear Friends, Welcome to the March 2022 edition of the Resource Roundup, a monthly newsletter from the IRC, packed with readings, recommendations and resources you can use in your classroom or school community. If you have a resource you think would be valuable to share for this round-up, please email Lindsay Eanet at leanet@cntrmail.org with a link. We are always open to suggestions of ways the IRC can continue to be a resource for educators serving linguistically and culturally diverse learners. If you have ideas, we encourage you to reach out!    From Our IRC Specialists & StaffBilingual Parents Video LibraryHyperdoc: Creating Multilingual, Multicultural LGBTQ+ Affirming Communities [...]

The Illinois Resource Center is proud to announce an exciting new computer science professional development program for motivated teachers who serve English learner students in Illinois. This is the first program of its kind solely directed towards teachers working with English learners. This innovative program, in partnership with Digital Leaders Now (DLN), the Learning Technology Center of Illinois (LTCI), and CODE.org, is designed to respond to today’s digital learning and computer science integration needs, as well as to lay the groundwork for English learner students to access a variety of growing career opportunities. As fast-growing career tracks open in fields from coding and network [...]