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DESCRIPTION:CEEL invites you to an in-person keynote address on May 21\, 20
 25 featuring Dr. Dina Castro\, Director for the Institute for Early Childho
 od Well-Being at Boston University\, on "Early Childhood Well-Being in Mult
 ilingual and Multicultural Contexts".\n\nThe number of people leaving their
  communities in search for a better life for them and their families has in
 creased dramatically during the last twenty years. About 20 percent of the 
 world’s total international migrants live in the United States. One consequ
 ence of these migration movements is the increased linguistic and cultural 
 diversity in communities and schools\; bilingual/multilingual children are 
 a third of the U.S. child population ages 0-8. This session will focus on t
 he questions: Why should children’s languages\, cultures and diverse abilit
 ies be considered when seeking to improve quality in early care and educati
 on and overall children’s well-being? and how do early educators\, administ
 rators and policymakers can work towards reaching this goal? We will discus
 s interdisciplinary asset-based perspectives to maximize children’s well-be
 ing and build resilience in multilingual and multicultural contexts.\n\nAbo
 ut Dr. Dina C. Castro\nDr. Dina C. Castro is director of the Institute for 
 Early Childhood Well-Being and the inaugural Bahamdan Professor in Early Ch
 ildhood Well-Being at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Hum
 an Development. Her scholarship focuses on equity and quality in the early 
 care and education of bilingual children in immigrant\, migrant\, and indig
 enous communities. It is conceptualized at the intersection of language\, c
 ulture\, race\, ethnicity\, and disability\, recognizing the need for inter
 disciplinary approaches across the fields of early childhood development an
 d education\, bilingualism and bilingual education\, and special education.
 \n\nBefore joining BU\, Dr. Castro was professor and the Velma E. Schmidt E
 ndowed Chair in Early Childhood Education at the University of North Texas 
 (2014–2021). She also held positions at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers Colleg
 e\, Arizona State University (2013-2014)\, and the Frank Porter Graham Chil
 d Development Institute\, and the School of Education at the University of 
 North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997-2013). She also served as director of t
 he Center for Early Care and Education Research: Dual Language Learners\, a
  federally funded national research center focused on increasing our unders
 tanding of practices and measurement to improve early care and education fo
 r bilingual children. Her research has been funded by the Institute of Educ
 ation Science\, the National Institute of Child Health and Development\, th
 e Administration for Children and Families and the Office of Special Educat
 ion Programs.
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LOCATION:University Hall\, McIntosh 3999
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SUMMARY:2025 Spring Featured Speaker Series
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URL:https://cal.lmu.edu/event/2025-spring-featured-speaker-series
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