This week, we are getting an update on Katie's project with Living Hyphen. She will be sharing updates on her dual language book project-based learning. The book has printed and officially launched!

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• Identity Texts & Project-Based Learning - E119
• Living Hyphen website
• ESL classes with a project-based learning lens (creating a book about immigration and settlement challenges)
• Dual language writing pieces
• Teams: events, graphic design, publicity, presentation, podcasting, sales, production managers
• Oakville News Article
• Lots of due dates, quick turnaround time (less than 1 month!)
• Book launch - reached out to classes, board members, local media
• Presentation - process of creating the book, sharing some entries
• Tools used - Canva (needs auto-generating page numbers!), used anonymized accounts to protect student privacy
• Big wins: courage to share their journey (some were not happy)
• Roadblocks: low proficiency ELLs and/or new arrivals (how to get them involved to help build language)
• Going Forward: Give yourself more time, let the students take ownership (give up control), make the role expectations explicit, connect with feeder schools
• Find those opportunities for elementary and secondary schools to overlap to build relationships
• If you are in the Oakville, ON area and are interested in getting a copy of the book, reach out to us!

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