Rita MacDonald

Pumped to present at the @WIDA_UW eConference this week! My ALTELLA avatar is sidepony ready and caffeinated- if you’re watching, our session is called: It’s All About Access, 6:30 ET. See you there! 💛

Jon Nordmeyer, Tim Boals, Rita MacDonald and Ruslana Westerlund of #WIDA have co-authored an article titled "What Does Equity Really Mean for Multilingual Learners?" in the latest @ELmagazine. Join the #ELMagChat tonight! ⬇️ @nordmeyerj @Equity4ELLs @rita_wida @BoalsTimothy

Great #NAELPA breakout by @rita_wida & @Dtcrowther! Contemporary Research & Pedagogy in Science & Language Ed: Making Science Multilingual - Thanks to them both along with @WIDAConsortium & @NSTA! #SCIENCE #ELLS @NABEorg #NABE2020

Equity Q: What can we call 'citizen science' without using the unintentionally exclusionary word 'citizen'? How have you worked around this? #MakingScienceMultilingual #WIDA

Kudos to NSTA staffers Tricia Shelton, Wendy Binder & past pres David Crowther and AST co-author Melissa Braaten. Science nerds + WIDA language nerds = great new ideas coming out. Can’t wait to get resources into teachers’ hands! #MakingScienceMultilingual @WIDAConsortium #NSTA

Ojibwe scientist integrating Western science w/ her indigenous world view. Good to remember: more than one way to understand science. #NSTA #MakingScienceMultilingual @WIDAConsortium

Equitable classroom communities foster trusting and caring relationships. stemteachingtools.org/brief/54

Over 80 science teachers and NSTA leaders had a lot of fun today...and learned some new ways to think about how language works in the midst of learning science. #NSTA19 @WIDAConsortium #MakingScienceMultilingual