CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION

REGIONAL AND ANNUAL CONFERENCES PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO OVER 9,500 EDUCATORS, PARENTS/FAMILIES, AND STUDENTS TO PROMOTE EFFECTIVE PRACTICES FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS AND MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS WHO MAKE UP 40% OF THE STUDENT POPULATION IN CALIFORNIA. ONE ANNUAL, FOUR REGIONAL CONFERENCES, AND ONE DUAL LANGUAGE INSTITUTE WERE SCHEDULED FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2025. ALL EVENTS WERE HELD VIA IN-PERSON. ALL EVENTS SUCCESSFULLY ENGAGED EDUCATORS, FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS THROUGH CREATIVE AND INTENTIONAL IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES OF ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES. WE EMBEDDED INTO OUR CONFERENCE ASIAN LANGUAGES WORKSHOPS, PROGRAMS, AND STUDENT PERFORMANCES AS PART OF OUR BUILDING OF MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCY IN EDUCATORS. IN ADDITION, WE ALSO HELD AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE LANGUAGES INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATORS AND PARENTS AS PART OF OUR ANNUAL CABE 2025 CONFERENCE 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION. AS PART OF OUR 50TH ANNIVERSARY, WE ALSO DEVELOPED A CABE HISTORY WEBSITE THAT ENCOMPASSES ALL OF CABE'S 50 YEAR HISTORY WITH VIDEOS, A HISTORICAL BOOK AND HISTORICAL ARCHIVED BUTTONS IN INCREMENTS OF FIVE YEARS OF CABE HISTORY.

THE NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, PROJECT PROMESA, IS A GRANT FUNDED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, WHICH OFFERS BOTH EDUCATOR AND PARENT/FAMILY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ON DUAL LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAMS TO TWO DISTRICTS AND SIX SCHOOLS IN BOTH SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2025, OVER 300 EDUCATORS, PARENTS, AND FAMILIES CONTINUE TO PARTICIPATE IN PROJECT PROMESA, A 5-YEAR GRANT, OF WHICH WE JUST COMPLETED YEAR FOUR.