1. Advocacy and Commitments in Practice for Bilingual Education Keynote Address: Christian Faltis (Arizona State University) Leadership in Bilingual Education Second Annual Conference Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut November 4-5, 2005 Keynote Address: Christian Faltis (Arizona State University) Leadership in Bilingual Education Second Annual Conference Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut November 4-5, 2005

2. Advocacy and Commitments in Practice for Bilingual Education

3. Speaking out. Working toward. Fighting against. Advocacy can be...

4. Speak Out Against Applied [Supplied] Linguistics... BICS & CALP dimensions of language. Bilingualism as interlanguage. Bilingualism as semilingualism.

5. Work Towards... Getting rid of scripted literacy programs. Improving language proficiency tests. Eliminating high stakes testing.

6. Fight Against Exclusionary Practices... Tracking bilingual students into lower level courses. Segregated schools for minority and immigrant students becoming bilingual.

7. Advocacy also means... Understanding how poverty and social class affect what happens in school.

8. Poverty, Health, and Schooling... Otitis Media (Ear infections) Vision Asthma Lead and mercury poisoning Premature births and low birth weights

9. Advocacy as... Commitments in Practice Stances about how to treat people while teaching.

10. Practice means... Repeating activities, but also... Enabling learners to try on new identities as members of academic communities of practice, both real and imagined.

11. Identity Formation and Identity Affiliations Identities linked to academic practices. Identity affiliations create potential for future membership in classroom life.

12. Communities of Practice Learning as moving from the periphery toward the core. Language acquires learners as they become members and choose to participate.

13. Commitments in Practice to ensure... participation social integration meaning making identity formation and affiliation critical awareness and transformation

14. Active Participation Multiple opportunities for bilingual language and literacy uses. Acting, behaving, thinking, and creating to involve and affiliate.

15. Social Integration Draws on multiple abilities. Builds background knowledge. Scaffolds new knowledge.

16. Language Learning Integrated with Content Learning Make meaning. How language operates to make meaning. Use language as tools for learning.

17. Sociocultural Identity Support Bilingual and transnational identities. Identity affiliations with academic communities of practice.

18. Connections to Wider Contexts Question and redesign local contexts and beyond. Question and address social stratification, exclusionary practices, and societal racism.

19. Keep Learning-Help Others

20. Gracias.