Translanguaging as a Tool for Equity: Supporting Dually Identified Learners (Multilingual Learners with Educational Disabilities Webinar Series)
Audience: Educators, Other District/School Staff | Topic: Multilingual Learners, Special Education | Hosted by: Office of Special Education
Requirement for School / District Staff: N/A
Webinar format
The Offices of Special Education and Elementary Literacy and School Readiness proudly invite you to join the2025-26 Webinar Series: Multilingual Learners with Educational Disabilities. This engaging series brings together a star-studded lineup of national and Colorado-based researchers and practitioners who are leading the field with practical, student-centered approaches.
Participants will gain fresh insights into this often-overlooked intersectional population, explore evidence-based literacy strategies to strengthen instruction, and consider thoughtful adjustments to referral, evaluation, and programming decision-making.
This series is for Colorado Special Education teams, including ELD Teachers, Literacy Specialists, Directors, and Coordinators in Special Education and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education.
Download the Series Booklet (PDF)
Registration
Registration for each webinar will close two weeks before each respective webinar to ensure accessibility. Zoom links and invites will be sent out two weeks prior to each webinar.
Space is limited, so reserve your spot today
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About this Session
Translanguaging is introduced as a pedagogical approach tomore equitably serve dually identified students. Participants willexplore how to meaningfully incorporate students' homelanguages into IEP-aligned instruction, challenge monolingualnorms, and foster inclusive, asset-based learning environments.Classroom-based examples in reading, writing and oral languageinstruction will illustrate how translanguaging bridges languagedevelopment and disability support in meaningful, practical ways.
About the Presenters
Dra. Hogan
Dra. Tania Hogan is the Executive Director ofThe BUENO Center for Multicultural Education in the School ofEducation at the University of Colorado Boulder. She leads with ajustice-centered approach that recognizes bilingualism not just asan academic strength, but as a source of identity, resilience, andcultural wealth. A former multilingual learner from Acapulco,Mexico, Dra. Hogan advances bilingual education as atransformative force that centers and celebrates the brilliance ofLatine, immigrant, and multilingual learners.
Dra. Gumina
Dr. Deena Gumina is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Equity,Bilingualism, and Biliteracy in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulderand a former bilingual elementary school teacher. She teaches courses on languageacquisition, family engagement and methods for teaching multilingual learners. Dr. Gumina’sresearch and teaching interests include bilingual education, teacher education and advocacy,and educational policy.
Event Date and Time
- Thursday, February 19, 2026 - 8:30am to 9:30am
Location
OnlineCertificate
Attendees will receive 1 hour of Special Education recertification credit, which satisfies part of the new renewal requirements under Colorado HB 21-1104.
Contact Information
Hunter Smith or Brie JohnsonSmith_H@cde.state.co.us or Johnson_B@cde.state.co.us
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