***For CTLE credit, click here***Episode Summary:What kind of world does your teaching create? In this episode, Tasha Austin gives all educators food for thought to ponder this question. She challenges us to think about how separated communities inside the school building could be more diversified and inclusive environments that lend equal support to all learners. Tasha unpacks the idea of the “mimicry” of a standardized version of English, and takes apart the premise that there is one form of any language that is better than another. How can educators "design spaces of learning" that can elevate knowledge about the importance of using language across various situations instead of seeing mimicry as the only overarching end goal? This is just one of the burning questions we dive into in this episode! RBERNing Questions for this Episode: 1- When teaching educators, how do you suggest they implement the value of various Englishes in their classroom settings?2- How can educators "design spaces of learning" that can elevate knowledge about the importance of using language across various situations instead of seeing mimicry as the only overarching end goal?3- What is the most important focus when educating ENL teachers on how to best educate minoritized language populations? Guest Bio:Tasha Austin is an assistant professor of teacher education, language education and multilingualism. She was the Teacher Education Special Interest Group Representative for New Jersey Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages-New Jersey Bilingual Educators (NJTESOL-NJBE) and co-created and hosted their "Critical Conversations" YouTube series. Her research uses Critical Race Theory and Black feminist epistemologies through a raciolinguistic perspective to qualitatively examine language, identity and power, and the ways in which anti-Blackness emerges in language education and (language) teacher preparation. Through her purposeful enactment of critical consciousness and engaged pedagogies, her praxis seeks to effect meaningful change in the field of language education and within teacher education more broadly.Resources:Twitter: @ProfeAustinUniversity Profile: https://ed.buffalo.edu/about/directory/faculty/profile.html?uid=tashaausPublications https://www.languagemagazine.com/2023/06/05/are-we-cultural-and-linguistic-surrogates Austin, T., & Kearney, E. (2022). Teacher Recruitment, Preparation and Support: Choosing Community in Moments of Possibility. The Language Educator.Austin, T. (2022). A Hard Time Seeing the Relevance: Race and Discourse Identity in (Language) Teacher Preparation. International Journal of Literacy, Culture and Language Education.Austin, T. (2022). Linguistic Imperialism: Countering AntiBlack Racism in World Language Teacher Preparation. Journal for Multicultural Education.Other MediaWebinar:  https://youtu.be/_dCRpu82KHACritical ConverTo find out more about Mid-State RBERN at OCM BOCES' services, listen to season 1 of the show with host Collette Farone-Goodwin, or to receive CTLE credit for listening to episodes, click here: https://midstaterbern.org/

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