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This study summarizes the current literature on interventions focused on supporting Latinx children's social and emotional development and which interventions specifically foster mental health in the United States in the last twenty years.

Many multilingual, community college students face delays in achieving their educational goals because few ESL courses are transferable or degree applicable. To address this inequity, California Community Colleges are increasingly seeking transferability for academic ESL courses. Aiming to foster dialogue and collective efforts toward equity for multilingual students, the speaker will outline the process of submitting courses for Cal-GETC (California Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum) approval, including the steps, content standards, and the challenges involved. By the end of the session, participants will gain tools to pursue transferable and degree-applicable credits for ESL courses. Q&A will be included.

It is possible to create an effective citizenship course using free, easily accessible digital resources. Teaching with these materials empowers students to take control of their study and preparation and be self-directed and self-resourced learners. Participants in the workshop will leave with resources for teaching and studying all aspects of the US naturalization interview as well as a suggested course outline and examples of online assignments and activities.

This workshop will focus on how instructional strategies, resources, and activities can cohesively integrate language development, information literacy, and digital technologies. We will have an engaging discussion followed by small group activities. Please join us!

Engaging students to interact critically in contemporary problems and topics of civic engagement empowers their critical hope for the future and their own advocacy for a more equitable community. Building on Jeff Duncan-Andrade's theory of of critical hope, the presenter will share a framework and examples on combining civic engagement topics, critical thinking, information literacy, and academic vocabulary development in a pre-transfer-level reading-composition course and take participants through a journey of how to help students understand the nature of injustice, the reasons for engagement or bystanding, the architecture of activism, and the power of non-violent resistance.