NABE News Online

Vol. 1, No. 8
November 7, 2005

See You in Phoenix!
Register for NABE 2006 This Week and Save up to 48%
NABE 2006 is fast approaching – January 18-21 in Phoenix, Arizona – and we are putting the final touches on an exciting program for our 35th annual conference. Our theme is Connecting Worlds With Bilingual Education. The conference will feature international and indigenous perspectives on language education, the latest research on bilingual programs in the United States, responses to policy challenges such as English-only restrictions and high-stakes testing, prospects for reforming the No Child Left Behind Act, and much more.

In addition, NABE 2006 will feature full- and half-day Preconference Institutes on dual language programs, indigenous bilingual education, special education, gifted education, early-childhood education, heritage languages, low-incidence ELL populations, and parent concerns. And don’t miss our Post-Conference Tours to Sedona and the Grand Canyon. Click here for full program details.

Please note that the deadline for Early Bird Registration is November 11. If you act now, you can save up to 48 percent. Click here for downloadable registration forms. Better yet, you can register and book your hotel online.

As always, the NABE conference will attract the best known experts in the field of bilingual education. This year there will be many new names as well – outstanding presenters in areas such as assessment, literacy, language policy, and multicultural education.

Here’s a partial roster of our confirmed Keynoters and Featured Speakers:

Aida Walqui
Director, Teacher Professional Development
WestEd
San Francisco, California
Rep. Mike Honda
Democratic Member of Congress
San Jose, California
Susan Ohanian
Author, One Size Fits Few: The Folly of Educational Standards
Stephen Krashen
University of Southern California
Lily Wong Fillmore
University of California, Berkeley
Jim Cummins
University of Toronto
Donaldo Macedo
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Luis Enrique Lopez
El Programa de Formación en Educación Intercultural Bilingüe para los Países Andinos
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Benjamin Maldonado
Instituto Estatal de Educación Publica de
Oaxaca, Mexico
Luz Maria De La Torre and Tod Swanson
Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin
America, Arizona State University
Diane August and David Francis
Authors, National Literacy Panel Study
Center for Applied Linguistics
Patricia Gandara
University of California, Davis
Thomas Doty
Native American Storyteller
Ashland, Oregon
Margo Gottlieb and Lynore Carnuccio
Authors, TESOL’s K-12 English Language Proficiency Standards in the Content Areas
Jose Ruiz-Escalante
University of Texas, Pan American

Peterson Zah
Arizona State University
Former President, Navajo Nation
Richard Littlebear
President, Chief Dull Knife College
Lame Deer, MT
Joseph Lo Bianco
Developer, Australia's National Policy on
Languages
University of Melbourne
Simon Ortiz
Acoma Writer and Poet
University of Toronto
Tereso Joj Cosme
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala Altiplano
Kellie Rolstad, Kate Mahoney, and
Gene V Glass, Authors, "The Big Picture: A Meta-Analysis of Program Effectiveness Research on English Language Learners"
Arizona State University
Yvonne and David Freeman
University of Texas, Brownsville
Fay Shin
California State University, Long Beach
Lois Meyer
Author, No Child Left Bilingual?
University of New Mexico
Teresa McCarty, Eugene Garcia, Josue Gonzalez,
and Terrence Wiley
Arizona State University
Norm Gold
Consultant
Sacramento, California
Jose Luis Orozco
Author and Recording Artist
Los Angeles, California
Judith Munter and Josefina Tinajero
University of Texas, El Paso
James Crawford
NABE Executive Director
Author, Educating English Learners

Meanwhile, our Special Interest Groups are planning NABE 2006 institutes in areas including Asian and Pacific American Education, Critical Pedagogy, Early Childhood Education, Gifted Education, Higher Education, Indigenous Bilingual Education, Instructional Technology, Language Policy, Para-Educators, Policymakers, and Research and Evaluation.

A NABE conference would not be complete without plenty of great food, music, and dancing. Be sure to mark your calendars for the President’s Reception (a free event) after our opening ceremonies on Wednesday and the NABE Gala and Dance on Saturday night. And don’t miss two top-flight comedians, Firoozeh Dumas, author of Funny in Farsi, and Jade Esteban Estrada, who will perform his one-man show, Tortilla Heaven.

For more information about the NABE 2006 program, accommodations, and logistics, please visit our web site at www.nabe.org.

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