At AAAL Denver 2025, check out the many presentations by the MILE team! Click here to learn more about AAAL and check out MILE presenter details below:

• Embracing African philosophies of Sankofa and Ubuntu as pedagogical acts of decolonization in literacy education

  Gabriel Opare, Laura Mahalingappa • Individual Presentation

• Language, Diversity, Policy, and Social Justice: In Honor of Terrence G. Wiley

  Kellie Rolstad, Wayne Wright, Na Liu, Jeff MacSwan • Special Session

• Language portraits as an alter(n)ative tool to promote self-reflection for teaching multilingual students

  Jessica Crawford, Johanna Tigert, Megan Madigan Peercy, Loren Jones, Melanie Hardy-Skeberdis, Daisy Fredricks • Individual Paper

• Making sense of biliteracy instruction in the face of monolingual literacy mandates

  Melinda E. Martin-Beltran, Mariana L. Sánchez, Amanda D. Cataneo, Astrid Sierra • Individual Paper

• Mason-Dixon borderlands: Raciolinguistic smokescreens in Maryland and Pennsylvania school de/segregation

  Taylor Lewis • Poster

• Moving humanizing principles to pedagogical action in LTE: The challenges and possibilities of shifting PCK

  Megan Madigan Peercy, Francis J. Troyan, & Jessica Crawford • Individual Paper

• Navigating hybrid spaces and cultivating sisterhood during divisive times: A Black & Transnational Latina duoethnography

  Lindsey Allen, Astrid Sierra • Individual Presentation

• Navigating, overcoming challenges and changing practices: Puerto Rican teachers supporting each other in DLBE

  Astrid Sierra, Melinda E. Martin-Beltran • Individual Presentation

• The conceptualization and formation of teacher identity in dual language bilingual education

  Amanda Cataneo • Individual Paper

• Use of standardized language proficiency tests and computerized syntactic complexity indices in admissions of multilingual international students at English-medium universities

  Nihat Polat, Laura Mahalingappa, Rae Mancilla • Presentation