- Presenter: Miriam E. Ebsworth, Associate Professor of English Education, NYU
- Biography: Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth, PhD, is an Associate Professor of English Education in the Multilingual Multicultural Studies program at NYU Steinhardt. She has extensive experience working with multilingual learners from kindergarten through adulthood and mentoring language teachers and researchers. Her scholarship focuses on bilingual education, second-language acquisition, biliteracy, cross-cultural communication, and the use of technology to support language learning. A longtime leader in the field, she was named Bilingual Teacher of the Year by the New York State Association for Bilingual Education and received several lifetime-achievement honors in 2024. She is co-author, with Sophie Othman, of “The Potential of Chatbots in Bilingual Education: Benefits and Challenges,” published in Bilingual Education in the Age of AI.
- Workshop Description: The joy of raising bilingual children: Advantages, strategies, and challenges workshop is a 45-minute interactive session where Miriam will go over experiences in bilingual education and the advantages and challenges of raising bilingual children.
