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

Keynotes and professional learning are customized to each organization’s goals, context, and participants.

• Empowering Students Facing Adversity: Apply an evidence-based, strengths-based framework that centers dignity, sustains cultural and linguistic identity, and supports learners with adverse childhood experiences.
• Identity-Safe Spaces at Home and School: Explore identity-safe practices that support student well-being, strengthen home-school partnerships, and foster resilience and positive identity development.
• Transforming Schools for Multilingual Learners: Explore inclusive policies, practices, and structures that ensure multilingual learners feel safe, valued, and academically empowered.
• Beyond Crises: Building Responsive School-Community Partnerships: Build responsive partnerships that move schools from crisis response to lasting transformation.
• Teaching to Empower: Cultivating Agency and Purpose: Foster student agency, confidence, purpose, 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 strengthen students’ academic language development and success.
• Promoting Student Achievement with Research-Based Tools: Apply research-based tools that support multilingual learners’ growth and achievement.