MGP Leads National Workshop

MGP co-led a 2012 National Partnership for Educational Access (NPEA) conference workshop highlighting our language-variation professional development (PD) with teachers here in Baltimore.
 
Last year, we received NPEA’s inaugural Award for Excellence in Collaboration, which included a high-profile spot leading a workshop at this year’s conference.  MGP Executive Director Beth Casey and three colleagues presented  “Valuing African American Language and Culture in The Middle School Years.” Conference workshop co-leaders included Dr. Christine Mallinson (UMBC) and Dr. Anne H. Charity Hudley (The College of William & Mary)—co-developers with MGP for last summer’s PD. That PD explored the relationships between language, schools, and communities. The goal was to help teachers apply knowledge about language to help students succeed in the classroom.
 
Inte’a DeShields (doctoral student in Language, Literacy, and Culture at UMBC) was an additional co-leader of the NPEA conference workshop, which:

• Outlined MGP’s model for partnership as one that can broaden and deepen the impact and meaning of teacher PD.
• Brought together linguists and educators to better understand the role of language in a middle school setting.
• Presented findings from teachers who participated in the 2011 MGP PD and then integrated what they learned into their teaching.

For more on our Award for Excellence in Collaboration, click here.