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Are you an educator or parent of a bilingual student? Join us for this special program, tailored specifically for you.
Free registration and open to the public. Breakfast and lunch included.
Keynote Speaker: Kathryn Lindholm Leary, Ph.D.
Dr. Kathryn Lindholm-Leary is currently a professor of Child and Adolescent Development at San Jose State University (SJSU), where she has taught for 19 years. At San Jose State, Kathryn received a Teacher-Scholar award, was a finalist for the President's Scholar Award, and was a San Jose State University nominee for the prestigious Wang Family Excellence Award. Her research interests focus on understanding the cognitive, language, psychosocial, and societal factors that influence student achievement, with a particular emphasis on culturally and linguistically diverse students.
Dr. Lindholm-Leary has worked with two-way language immersion and other bilingual programs for the past 20 years, and during that time has evaluated over 30 programs and helped to establish programs in over 50 school districts in 10 states. Dr. Lindholm-Leary has the most comprehensive longitudinal data on bilingual students (particularly students in two-way programs) in the country.
Program
| 8:00 - 8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Welcome by Philippe Dietz, Head of School, International School of the Peninsula |
| 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. | Keynote Presentation by Kathryn Lindholm Leary, Ph.D., SJSU |
| 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. | Break Out Session #1
Choose one of the following sessions... Session 1: Fredéric Canadas, Head of School, Ecole Bilingue Berkeley Session 2: Robert Leonhardt, Head of School, FAS New York Session 4: Li Shen, Chinese Program Director, International School of the Peninsula Session 5: Sandra Tung and Sherry Yang, Chinese Program Faculty, International School of the Peninsula Session 6: Roselyn Wu, Professor, Hong Kong Session 7: Zhou Jing, Vice Dean of ECE of East China Normal University Session 8: Judith Lessow-Hurley, Ph.D., SJSU |
| 11:00 - 11:15 a.m. | Break |
| 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Break Out Session #2
Choose one of the following sessions... Session 1: Fredéric Canadas, Head of School, Ecole Bilingue Berkeley Session 2: Robert Leonhardt, Head of School, FAS New York Session 4: Li Shen, Chinese Program Director, International School of the Peninsula Session 5: Sandra Tung and Sherry Yang, Chinese Program Faculty, International School of the Peninsula Session 6: Roselyn Wu, Professor, Hong Kong Session 7: Zhou Jing, Vice Dean of ECE of East China Normal University Session 8: Judith Lessow-Hurley, Ph.D., SJSU |
| 12:30 p.m. | Closing Statement by Philippe Dietz, Head of School, International School of the Peninsula |
| 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:30 p.m. | End of Program |
RSVP Today!
RSVP to Bilingual@istp.org by Friday, September 26.
For more information, please call Sylvie Jannon-Shields, Assistant to the Head of School, at
(650) 251-8506.
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