We hold a conference each year, where program directors and administrators of community-based heritage language schools; members of the language communities involved in these schools; and directors and leaders in public, private, and charter schools who are interested in working with community-based heritage language schools come together to share research and best practices. Sign up for our newsletter if you would like to receive announcements about future conferences.
12th Annual Community-Based Heritage Language Schools Conference
October 3-4, 2025
American University in Washington, DC and online
The Coalition of Community-Based Heritage Language Schools is excited to invite you to participate in its 12th annual conference! This conference brings together everyone who is interested in learning about, collaborating with, and advocating for community-based HL schools. Participants typically include directors and administrators of community-based HL schools, teachers, members of the language communities, representatives of public schools, researchers in the field of HL education, and leaders of national language organizations.
This event will be hybrid, held both on site at American University in Washington, DC and online on October 3-4, 2025. Please explore the conference website and learn about the plenary speakers! Feel free to share the conference Facebook event as well as LinkedIn event widely and invite your colleagues!
Dr. Jin Sook Lee, Professor of Education, Associate Dean of Graduate Division, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
Bridging Resources and Relationships: Strengthening Community-Based Schools through University-Community Partnerships
Tom Welch, NCSSFL's Neural Network
Every Learner, Every Language: Personalizing Progress with a FILL Approach in Community-Based Schools
Workshops For Teachers and Administrators
- Working With Parents to Build Students’ Language and Cultural Development
- Building and Using Languages Through Oral History Projects, Drama, and Film
- How the New NHLRC Online Professional Development Course Addresses Community-Based Heritage Language Schools’ Needs
- Personalizing Progress with a FILL Approach in Community-Based Schools
- Building a Liberatory Praxis in Community-Based Learning: Identifying, Designing, and Implementing Critical Tasks to Foster Critical Language Awareness
- Using AI Technology in Community-Based HL Schools
Panels and Networking Sessions
- How CBHL Schools Strive to Prepare Students to Receive Certificates for Their HL Proficiency
- What Schools Are Doing
- Motivating and Engaging High School Students
- Instructional Approaches that Arabic Schools Are Using
- Academic Approaches That Schools Are Developing
- Using LMS in Community-Based Heritage Language Schools
We will also have opportunities to connect, Friday and Saturday nights.
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We are grateful to the conference sponsors: