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October 2021 • Issue 49 • California Association for Bilingual Education

Celebrating our nation's rich and diverse Hispanic/Latinx cultures...
USDOE's Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) sponsors

Hispanic Heritage Month Author Series on October 13, 2021
CABE 2022 registration now open and includes member discounts!...
CABE Members!
We're back on-site and can't wait to see you in San Francisco!

Renew your membership and register by the December 9th Extra Early Bird Deadline to get discounts on your CABE 2022 registration fees. Free member-exclusive events at the conference include the Membership Reception, Membership Dance, and Membership Meeting. Registration is now open and hotel packages are available!
Join Team CABE—We're now hiring for three open positions...
Learn about pending California legislative bills and more...
CABE's Legislative and Advocacy Lobbyist, Martha Zaragoza-Díaz, brings you the latest from Sacramento.

Part 1 provides an update on pending bills.
Part 2 highlights Hispanic Heritage Month, the State's new Literacy/Biliteracy Campaign, an update re: CBEST and CSET requirements, and more...

Part 1
Part 2
Put your advertising in front of thousands of CABE readers...
Free registration! Next session coming up on October 5, 2021...
Registration now open for parent/para-educator conference...
Gear up for the new school year with CABE Professional Learning...
Celebrating Project 2Inspire Partners...
CABE's Project 2Inspire Welcomes and Thanks
Our 2021-2022 Partners!
Project 2INSPIRE
Family Leadership Program
Are you interested in building leadership capacity with your families through a virtual or hybrid model this 2021-22 school year?

Contact CABE Project Coordinator Maria Valencia for more information about the program and NEW topics:
Need translation or interpretation services? We can help...
Recordings of CEI Webinars 1 & 2 of 6-part series now available...
The Community Engagement Initiative offers recordings of the first two webinars in its six-part series:

Episode 1
Prioritizing Relationships

Episode 2
Students and Families as Experts

Click below to visit the CEI website.
Then scroll down to view the webinars...
Share these with your parents! Prop 58 action step cards...
Check out CABE's new
Prop 58 Action Step Cards for Parents in three languages.

To view/download, click below:

Find out what's happening at local CABE chapters and affiliates...
Our Advocacy Actions This Month

  • Sent letters to Governor Newsom to sign the AB 1363 Preschool: Dual Language Learners.

  • Conferred with consultants from Leadership Associates to provide input about the desired personal and professional qualities they want for the incoming superintendent for the Woodland Joint Unified School District.

  • Provided input for the WJUSD ESSER III plan for funds that the California Department of Education is providing school districts to meet the conditions of reopening schools as well as respond to students' needs during the COVID 19 pandemic.
Our October/November High School Scholarship Fundraiser

CABE Chapter 76 is planing a silent virtual high school scholarship fundraiser. The theme will be Día de Muertos Ofrenda Items. The silent auction will be announced on the CABE Yolo/Woodland Chapter 76 Facebook page very soon.
Our Community Activities

  • On Wed. Sept. 29 CABE Yolo/Woodland Chapter 76 Board Member, Gloria Ulloa Rodríguez, and Woodland City Council Member, Victoria Fernández, provided a virtual plática for Yolo County Health Department's CREO CommunCare Centros de Salud about “Mes de la Herencia Latino—¿Y por qué la celebración?”

  • El Club de Libro (book club in Spanish), sponsored by the Woodland Public Library and CABE Yolo/Woodland Chapter 76, is reading “Una casa propia” by Sandra Cisneros. The book club is open to the public. For information, go to the CABE Yolo/Woodland Chapter 76 Facebook page.

  • CABE Yolo/Woodland Chapter 76 was honored to be invited to receive the WJUSD Resolution for the 2021 Latino Heritage Month at the Sept 9th School Board of Trustees Meeting.

Other items of interest to the CABE community...
Professional Learning & Resources
Hot off the press! WIDA Spanish Language Framework Read interview with Dr. Cristina Alfaro from San Diego State University, who consulted on the project: https://wida.wisc.edu/about/news/conversations-tim-instrucción-en-espanol
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2021
Y-C.R.E.D. or Youth C.R.E.D. will be a free international online virtual one-day event on Thursday, October 14, 2021. High School language learners will hear from older university peer learners and career professionals about how language has positively impacted their lives. Sponsored by the Global Seal of Biliteracy.
Families and COVID-19

Resources from the Governor's Office regarding Youth Vaccinations:

A Know-Your-Rights Guide for Parents and Guardians About Distance Learning Independent Study These know-your-rights guides, as well as short printable versions and a standalone version of the "10 Key Questions" checklist, are available in English and Spanish here: https://youthlaw.org/case/independent-study-rights/ and https://www.myschoolmyrights.com/distance-learning/.
Contact laurie@gocabe.org to request that your information be included on this list.
Nurturing the mind, heart, and spirit...
THANK YOU, TEACHERS!
American journalist, Dan Rather, expresses his appreciation for teachers in the following tweet and in a post on the blog, Steady.
Excerpt from Dan Rather's May 4th post on Steady...

There has been so much upheaval, so much sadness, so many reasons to be dejected and deterred. And yet every day, across this vast and diverse country, women and men get up and set about on one of the most important tasks facing our nation —inspiring and educating our children. Whenever I feel myself sliding into despair I think about these millions of teachers dedicating their lives to the proposition that we can build a future better than our past.

The hardships around schooling during the pandemic have been well documented, remote learning for many, an on-the-fly imperfect experiment in pedagogy that was forced by necessity. Sadly, whether schools should be open to in-person learning, or not, has become yet another partisan political battle. And our educators have found themselves in the middle, sometimes even cast as villains for rightfully worrying about their safety. Meanwhile, the challenges of our present moment further amplify the inequities and injustices that have long plagued our school system. 

There is so much to say about the larger state of education, and I hope to return to this topic often, but today I want to dedicate this space to my deep appreciation for teachers and educators more broadly. Continue reading on Steady...

Comic Corner—because humor makes life a little easier...
Contact the editor—Laurie Nesrala-Miles, Communications Coordinator: laurie@gocabe.org