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It’s time. Kicking off @AVID4College first summer institute of the season in Orlando! Been doing this since 2011. Let’s do this! #AVIDEmerge #AVIDvoices #AVIDSI2026 😎 #languageispower #MLL
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Our students deserve opportunities to learn, grow, and stay connected to the languages and cultures that enrich our communities. Let’s invest in our children, our families, and our future. #InternationalLanguages #TCDSB #EducationMatters #SupportOurStudents #LanguageIsPower
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Congratulations on your outstanding participation in the Alabama Seal of Biliteracy! Your commitment to honoring multilingualism empowers students and strengthens our global community. #SealofBiliteracy #AlabamaEd #BilingualProud #LanguageIsPower
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Yoruba is a tonal language. One misplaced accent mark changes everything. 
Ọkọ means husband.
Ọkọ̀ means vehicle.
Ọkọ́ means hoe. Three words. Same letters. Different tones. Different worlds. For years, AI ignored that, until we built our own tools. Ikeoluwa Abioye, a 23-year-old Nigerian engineer, created Alarino, an app that translates Yoruba with proper tone marks. She built it because Google Translate kept failing her mother tongue. Yankari, a dataset of over 30 million Yoruba tokens from 51,000 documents, was developed by researchers presenting at AfricaNLP 2025. It pulls from folklore, film dialogue, and everyday speech, not just words, but memory. At UNILAG, Dr. Adedoyinsola Eleshin and the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies partnered with PlotWeaver (CEO Oluwole Fagbohun) to build the largest curated Yoruba corpus covering oral traditions, chants, and tonal expressions. Because a language isn't just how you speak. It's how you think. How you pray. How you know who you are. AI isn't saving Yoruba. We are. We're just using AI to do it. Which words would you like to teach @grok today? #Yoruba #AI #Alarino #Yankari #UNILAG #LanguageIsPower
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Tibetan was never a dying language. It was pushed to the edge. Under CCP rule in Tibet, children were separated from families, schools were turned into tools of assimilation, monasteries were restricted, and mother tongue education was erased. This was a deliberate attempt to break identity from within. In exile, Tibetan survived because freedom allowed it to breathe. Today, scholars urge India to grant Tibetan constitutional recognition and prove that democracy protects cultures authoritarianism destroys. Defending a language is defending a people. #ProtectTibetanLanguage #EndLinguisticErasure #TibetanIdentity #CulturalSurvival #StopCCPPolicies #LanguageIsPower #HumanRights #IndiasDemocracy #FreeTibet
The Tibetan language is being pushed toward extinction in its own homeland. Under CCP rule, Tibetan children were forced into Mandarin only boarding schools, monasteries were silenced, and mother tongue education was stripped away. This was not reform but linguistic genocide. In exile, Tibetan survived because democracy protected it. Now scholars are calling on India to recognize Tibetan in the Eighth Schedule and show the world that a displaced language can live, grow, and resist erasure. Language is identity. Silence is complicity. tibetanreview.net/an-urgent-… #SaveTibetanLanguage #LanguageRights #CulturalGenocide #Tibet #StopAssimilation #LinguisticJustice #HumanRights #India #CCP #MotherTongue
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@AVID4College is in the house! Love catching up with these mighty mujeres @NABEorg! #AdvancingMLs #LanguageisPower 💪🤨 #NABE2026
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🎉 POSTER SESSIONS START AT 1:20 PM! Level 2 Lobby is where innovation meets inspiration! Come connect with passionate educators, discover classroom-ready strategies, and spark new ideas you can take home tomorrow. ✨ Don’t just walk by — walk in. ✨ Ask questions. ✨ Network. ✨ Get inspired. #NABE2026 #LanguageIsPower #BilingualEducation
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Excitement is buzzing all around McCormick Place! 🎉 Make your way to the Arie Crown Theater for this morning’s NABE 2026 Opening Assembly at 10:30 AM! You won’t want to miss the inspiration, the celebration, and the powerful voices kicking off our conference week. Let’s fill the theater and start strong! 💙💛 #NABE2026 #LanguageIsPower #OpeningAssembly #BilingualEducation
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It’s happening TODAY! 🎉✨ Join us for Bytes of Brilliance at the NABE 2026 Opening General Assembly in the Arie Crown Theater at 10:30 AM! Get ready to be inspired by an incredible lineup of voices who are shaping the future of bilingual and multilingual education: 🎤 Rafael Agustín 🎤 Ambassador Reyna Torres Mendivil 🎤 Leslee Udwin @thinkequalorg 🎤 Camila Hernández 🎤 Marcy Peña This dynamic session will energize, empower, and ignite your conference experience from the very first byte! 💡🔥 🎟️ Included with your conference registration Don’t miss this powerful start to NABE 2026 — grab your seat early and be part of the brilliance! #NABE2026 #BytesOfBrilliance #LanguageIsPower #BilingualEducation #MultilingualLearners #NABEConference #EducatorsLead
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Join us for our NABE Ribbon Cutting Ceremony & Resource Hall Reception on Tuesday, February 10 from 4:30–7 PM and kick off the conference festivities in style! 🎉 Connect with our partners, explore incredible resources for bilingual and multilingual learners, and enjoy complimentary appetizers along with a cash bar offering drinks for purchase. This is also your chance to get a head start on the Resource Hall Scavenger Hunt, where you could win NABE swag and even grand prizes, including a Premium Conference Registration to NABE 2027 in Orlando, Florida! 🎯✨ Don’t miss this fun and festive way to start your NABE 2026 experience! #NABE2026 #LanguageIsPower #NABESponsors #ResourceHall #BilingualEducation #ConferenceKickoff
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We’re excited to spotlight this powerful session at #NABE2026 focused on the real impact of Artificial Intelligence in multilingual education. 🗓 Wednesday, February 11 ⏰ 2:20 PM 📍 Arie Crown Theater 🎤 Panel Session Artificial Intelligence for Genuine Connection: Empowering Multilingual Learners, Families, and Educators in the Digital Age Join an incredible panel of thought leaders as they explore how AI can strengthen—not replace—human connection in multilingual communities. ✨ Panelists include: • Khalil El-Saghir • Sophie Othman @sophie_othman • Susan Lafond 🎙 Moderator: Meredith White This is one you won’t want to miss—big ideas, meaningful dialogue, and practical takeaways for today’s educators. #NABE2026 #NABEPresenter #BilingualEducation #MultilingualLearners #AIinEducation #LanguageIsPower
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@NABEorg bound! Let’s do this Chi-town! #LanguageIsPower 💪🤨
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The NABE Team is officially onsite and getting everything ready for an incredible week ahead! 🎉 ✨ Onsite registration opens TONIGHT — we can’t wait to welcome you! 📍 Onsite Registration Location E354 – Foyer, McCormick Place Convention Center 🕒 Onsite Registration Hours • February 8: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM • February 9: 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Check-in opens at 6:30 AM for School Visit participants ONLY) • February 10–12: 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM • February 13: 7:00 AM – 11:00 AM We’re ready. Chicago is ready. Are you? 🙌 #NABE2026 #ConferenceWeek #OnsiteRegistration #LanguageIsPower #NABEChicago
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If dem born you for Nigeria, your language is your class certificate, your ethnic ID, and your survival tool, all in one. Birth gives you a mother tongue, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Efik, Ijaw, a whole worldview in your first cry. Race here means: Colonial English is still the boss. Speak it clean, you gain access. Speak only Pidgin, you get tagged “local.” Speak your language in the wrong place, you’re “tribal.” Class decides everything: · Rich pikin: Speaks English like oxygen. Mother tongue is a souvenir. · Middle class: Professional code-switcher. English for work, Pidgin for life, vernacular for family. · Poor man: Pidgin and vernacular as armor. English can be a wall they build to keep you out. The effect? We are masters of linguistic war. We juggle languages not just to communicate, but to navigate, to belong, to climb, or to resist. Your tongue can lift you up or lock you out, depending on who’s listening. One line input: Na my Papa fault (if you’re poor). Na my Papa dey run am (if you’re rich). #NaijaLinguistics #ClassCodes #LanguageIsPower #WhichEnglishYouDeySpeak Hyped on $CRTR, Currently Ranked #121 @fandomcreator_ is the future ... Goodnight 😩
If dem born you for Nigeria, you get PhD for "Management" before you even enter Primary 6. Let’s talk. You learn economics from your mama’s wallet, how to stretch ₦500 like bubblegum, cover soup ingredients, transport, and still hold change. You learn sociology from the queue at the filling station, the vibes in the danfo, the unspoken rules of who to greet and who to ignore. You learn engineering from fixing the generator in the dark, and political science from knowing which local official’s nephew can help speed up your passport. We blame Naija for the weight. The system that turns simple things into obstacle courses. Where light no dey, but bill dey come. Where you need "connection" for what merit should cover. Where the country breaks your heart but still expects you to build its future. But then, we praise Naija for the strength it forces into our bones. The hustle isn’t just a side hustle; it’s your central nervous system. The creativity isn’t for show; it’s survival. We manage what cannot be controlled. We smile through situations that would make other people collapse. We find detours where there are no roads. We are experts in the art of "making it work." Economically, turning nothing into something. Socially, building communities in chaos. Academically, excelling in spite of, not because of. Financially, balancing family, future, and faith on a tightrope. Nigeria doesn’t give you a manual. It throws you into the ocean with one instruction: "Swim." And by the time you reach shore, you’ve not only learned to swim,you’ve built a boat, charted a new route, and are teaching others how to navigate the waves. So yes, we complain about the heat of the fire. But we cannot deny, it forges steel. 1–0 if dem born you for Nigeria. Because you didn’t just survive the game. You learned to play it on expert mode before you even knew there was a beginner setting. #NaijaBuilt #ManagementGurus #1-0 Hyped on $CRTR @fandomcreator_ is the future 💯
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✨ We’re shining a light on leadership! Marcy Peña, National BESO Representative-Elect, will be taking part in Bytes of Brilliance during the NABE 2026 Opening Assembly. Get ready for insight, inspiration, and powerful voices shaping the future of bilingual education! #NABE2026 #BytesOfBrilliance #BESO #LanguageIsPower
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💡 Bytes of Brilliance 💡 Kick off Day One of #NABE2026 with our Opening General Assembly, featuring powerful keynote bytes from voices shaping education, advocacy, and storytelling. Join us February 11 at 10:30 AM for an inspiring start to the conference—where big ideas are shared in meaningful moments that spark action. ✨ This is how Language is Power comes to life. #LanguageIsPower #NABEChicago #BilingualEducation #MultilingualLearners #DualLanguage #EquityInEducation #EducatorCommunity #AdvocacyInAction #NABEConference
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🎤 Keynote Speaker Spotlight We’re honored to welcome Rafael Agustín as a keynote speaker at NABE 2026! Rafael is a powerful advocate for truth and representation serving as Vice Chair of the Center for Investigative Reporting, which publishes Mother Jones and the Reveal radio show, and as a member of the National Film Preservation Board at the Library of Congress. Join us in Chicago as Rafael shares stories that center identity, culture, and the power of voice—because Language is Power. 🎬✨ #NABE2026 #KeynoteSpeaker #LanguageIsPower #StorytellingMatters #RepresentationMatters
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🚨 BREAKING: Somalia’s Vice PM responds to Donald Dumb in Hindi. This isn’t a missile strike — it’s a Mach-3 linguistic headshot. 🚑💥 Donald “High-IQ” Trump loves insulting nations while fighting the English language like it owes him money. Grammar defeats him daily, but somehow he wants us to believe his brain can multitask into a second language? Be serious. Meanwhile, Somalis switch languages the way Trump switches lies; effortlessly, publicly, and without notes. (intaan naqaanay weey dhaaftay—this went beyond max settings.) One man needs teleprompters, translators, and excuses. The other answered in someone else’s language, just to be polite. This wasn’t diplomacy. It was education, delivered at supersonic speed ⚡️. #Africa #Somalia #SupersonicResponse #SomaliVicePM #LinguisticHeadshot #HighIQMyFoot #MultilingualFlex #LanguageIsPower #TrumpTheDummy #SpeakFirstThenTalk #Mogadishu #DiplomacyWithSubtitles #hitman #BrainsOverNoise #GlobalIQ #NoTranslatorNeeded #DonaldDumb
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Happy Motivational Monday, NABE Family! As we count down to NABE 2026 Conference, remember that this gathering is more than a conference—it’s a community of educators, leaders, and advocates coming together to learn, collaborate, and strengthen multilingual education nationwide. #MotivationMonday #NABE2026 #LanguageIsPower #MultilingualLearners #BilingualEducation #EducatorCommunity #ConferenceCountdown
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Headed to NABE 2026 in Chicago? ✈️🏙️ Make the most of your trip by joining the @NAELPAforELs Conference, held in conjunction with NABE 2026! Connect with leaders, explore durable support systems for multilingual learners, and take back strategies you can use right away. 📅 February 9–10, 2026 🔗 Register now: naelpa.connect.space/2026in-… #NABE2026 #NAELPA #NAELPA2026 #ELLeadership #MultilingualEducation #EducationalEquity #LanguageIsPower
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