COSA 2025 Multilingual & English Learners Conference

Rising Above the Waves: Embracing Learning Dispositions for Multilingual Empowerment 

Loan Mascorro, an author and educator, will share her journey as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting how learning dispositions shaped her educational experience in a new country. Through her personal story, she will introduce the E.M.B.R.A.C.E framework, a strength-based approach that creates inclusive learning environments and emphasizes critical habits of mind, inspiring educators to recognize and nurture the inherent capabilities of multilingual learners.

From Cultural Roots to Cultural Identity

Join us to discover how fostering a strong connection between dispositional learning and cultural identity can empower students to become confident, resilient, empathetic, and compassionate learners. In this dynamic presentation, educators will explore effective approaches for nurturing healthy learner identities in students by deeply integrating their cultural identity into the learning process. Emphasizing the importance of both the habits of mind and the habits of the heart, this session will provide actionable insights into creating a classroom environment that respects and leverages students’ lived experiences as a vital source of knowledge to foster a holistic approach to learning.

• Identify and understand the key dispositions that contribute to healthy learner identities.
• Recognize the role of cultural identity in shaping student dispositions and learning experiences.
• Create classroom environments that celebrate cultural identity to promote positive learner identities.
• Gain strategies to connect with families