Identity and Multilingualism through Picture Books

FAIN: ES-281204-21

President and Trustees of Bates College (Lewiston, ME 04240-6028)
Krista Aronson (Project Director: March 2021 to March 2024)
Margaret Elizabeth Boyle (Co Project Director: July 2021 to March 2024)

A two-week, hybrid institute for 29 elementary school teachers to develop equitable teaching strategies using picture books.

Bates College requests Level 1 support to conduct a two-week summer institute for twenty-nine elementary school teachers on “Identity and Multilingualism through Picture Books.” will focus on pedagogical approaches to language learning through an equity lens, engaging with narrative form and structure (translation, multilingualism, code-switching) as well as visual construction (illustrations of race, ethnicity and culture as well as modes of interacting with book format).