KEYNOTES & PD

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Dr. Zacarian’s keynote presentations and professional development experiences energize and inspire audiences to champion multilingual learners. Whether at a conference, summit, or leadership retreat, her interactive sessions blend research-based strategies, real-world insights, and practical tools. Participants leave motivated and equipped with concrete takeaways to lead transformative change in their settings.

Sample of Topics
  • Transforming Schools for Multilingual Learners: Explore inclusive practices that ensure multilingual learners feel safe, valued, and academically empowered.
  • Teaching to Strengths: Supporting Students Facing Adversity: Learn a strengths-based approach to support learners with adverse childhood experiences.
  • Beyond Crises: Building Responsive School-Community Partnerships: Build partnerships that move schools from crisis response(s) to lasting transformation.
  • Teaching to Empower: Cultivating Agency and Purpose: Foster student agency, confidence, and collaboration for academic and social success.
  • The Power of Partnerships: Engaging Families and Communities – Strengthen student outcomes through responsive family and community engagement.
  • Unleashing the Power of Academic Language: Apply a research-based four-part framework to build students’ success.
  • Promoting Student Achievement with Research-Based Tools: Supporting Multilingual Learners’ growth and achievement.