Barbara Marler
@bmarler.bsky.social
Current consultant & advisor & mentor & author. Recently retired public school administrator. 40+ years of dedicated service to public education. ESL. Bilingual. Newcomers. Dual. MTSS. SPED.
LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraemarler
LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraemarler
I am speaking this Thursday at Art of Belonging: Annual Migrant and Arts Program State Conference 2025 in Yakima, WA, along with Robert Reichardt from Augenblick, Palaich and Associates (APA Consulting). Please check out our talk if you're attending the event! - cross-posted
August 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I am speaking this Thursday at Art of Belonging: Annual Migrant and Arts Program State Conference 2025 in Yakima, WA, along with Robert Reichardt from Augenblick, Palaich and Associates (APA Consulting). Please check out our talk if you're attending the event! - cross-posted
Don’t despair about the SCOTUS ruling on universal injunctions. CASA, whose case ended with that ruling, shows the agility and flexibility I recommend my clients cultivate in this era - they pivoted on a dime and redefined their case as a class action suit. This is how you do it!
www.law.georgetown.edu
June 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Don’t despair about the SCOTUS ruling on universal injunctions. CASA, whose case ended with that ruling, shows the agility and flexibility I recommend my clients cultivate in this era - they pivoted on a dime and redefined their case as a class action suit. This is how you do it!
This year’s run of Harmonic Multilingual Program Design is a wrap! Such a great experience coaching and guiding these leadership teams from seven school districts. We will offer next year - stay tuned for details!
June 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
This year’s run of Harmonic Multilingual Program Design is a wrap! Such a great experience coaching and guiding these leadership teams from seven school districts. We will offer next year - stay tuned for details!
Urdu and Spanish speaking teachers needed - Please share to help Skokie 73.5 fill these two positions!
June 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Urdu and Spanish speaking teachers needed - Please share to help Skokie 73.5 fill these two positions!
So cool to be able to faciltate multilingual program design efforts in the elementary school district that raised me up! Thanks to Des Plaines CCSD 62 for inviting me!
May 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
So cool to be able to faciltate multilingual program design efforts in the elementary school district that raised me up! Thanks to Des Plaines CCSD 62 for inviting me!
Wrapped up a 3-day workshop series in Crystal Lake School District 47 on the topic of #mutilinguallearners and #MTSS and #SPED. Great experience with hard working, dedicated professionals. Thanks to Rebecca Morton and Holly Lyman for inviting me to share my expertise!
May 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Wrapped up a 3-day workshop series in Crystal Lake School District 47 on the topic of #mutilinguallearners and #MTSS and #SPED. Great experience with hard working, dedicated professionals. Thanks to Rebecca Morton and Holly Lyman for inviting me to share my expertise!
Trump's Proposed Budget for FY26
OELA,Title III, Migrant Ed, & Equity Assist. Centers - gone! Title I would be severely cut. SPED will have level funding. Remember, budgets are value statements. They'll use reconciliation to pass. Call your elected officials NOW. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
OELA,Title III, Migrant Ed, & Equity Assist. Centers - gone! Title I would be severely cut. SPED will have level funding. Remember, budgets are value statements. They'll use reconciliation to pass. Call your elected officials NOW. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
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May 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Trump's Proposed Budget for FY26
OELA,Title III, Migrant Ed, & Equity Assist. Centers - gone! Title I would be severely cut. SPED will have level funding. Remember, budgets are value statements. They'll use reconciliation to pass. Call your elected officials NOW. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
OELA,Title III, Migrant Ed, & Equity Assist. Centers - gone! Title I would be severely cut. SPED will have level funding. Remember, budgets are value statements. They'll use reconciliation to pass. Call your elected officials NOW. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
At Claude Goldenberg’s session at #TESOL25 and he is blowing my mind, talking at length about The American Tradition: Bilingual Education. I knew this to be true, but he laid out all the details. A smaller percentage of children are currently, in 2025, receiving bilingual education than in 1900.
March 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
At Claude Goldenberg’s session at #TESOL25 and he is blowing my mind, talking at length about The American Tradition: Bilingual Education. I knew this to be true, but he laid out all the details. A smaller percentage of children are currently, in 2025, receiving bilingual education than in 1900.
💥 Hope to see you in Long Beach! 💥 I'll be presenting on Wednesday, March 19 at 3:30 PM 💥 Tweaking for Equity: MTSS & SPED For Multilingual Learners (MLs). 💥 #TESOL25
February 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
💥 Hope to see you in Long Beach! 💥 I'll be presenting on Wednesday, March 19 at 3:30 PM 💥 Tweaking for Equity: MTSS & SPED For Multilingual Learners (MLs). 💥 #TESOL25
If I had a dollar for every Margo Gottlieb presentation I’ve attended, I could have retired a year earlier! I think my first one was at the Radisson Hotel in Lincolnwood, IL (the purple hotel) back in 1983 when she was involved in Project Rainbow for Elgin U-46. #NABE25
February 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
If I had a dollar for every Margo Gottlieb presentation I’ve attended, I could have retired a year earlier! I think my first one was at the Radisson Hotel in Lincolnwood, IL (the purple hotel) back in 1983 when she was involved in Project Rainbow for Elgin U-46. #NABE25
☄️I’m presenting! ☄️Friday, February 21. ☄️A High Quality Program for Newcomers: What’s Needed☄️Stop by, say hi, and stay for proven design, strategies, and exchange of ideas☄️
February 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM
☄️I’m presenting! ☄️Friday, February 21. ☄️A High Quality Program for Newcomers: What’s Needed☄️Stop by, say hi, and stay for proven design, strategies, and exchange of ideas☄️
Illinois stands up for immigrants.
Joint Position Statement in Support of Immigrant Communities
Joint Position Statement in Support of Immigrant Communities
from English Learners Advocacy Council in Higher Education (ELACHE), Illinois Association of Multilingual and Multicultural Education (IAMM...
irc.thecenterweb.org
February 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Illinois stands up for immigrants.
An update on what happened in Chicago yesterday. Since when does the Secret Service visit an elementary school to speak to a child? That is NOT allowed without a signed judicial warrant. Reported ICE visit to Chicago school was actually Secret Service, officials say.
Reported ICE visit to Chicago school was actually Secret Service, officials say
Chicago Public Schools prevented federal officers from from going into an elementary school on Chicago’s Southwest Side Friday and talking to students, according to school officials.
www.chicagotribune.com
January 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
An update on what happened in Chicago yesterday. Since when does the Secret Service visit an elementary school to speak to a child? That is NOT allowed without a signed judicial warrant. Reported ICE visit to Chicago school was actually Secret Service, officials say.
An update to what we thought was an ICE raid at Hamline. Secret Service agents represented that they were ICE agents. C-R-A-Z-Y. blockclubchicago.org
January 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
An update to what we thought was an ICE raid at Hamline. Secret Service agents represented that they were ICE agents. C-R-A-Z-Y. blockclubchicago.org
Kudos and much love to the folks at Hamline. This is how how you do it! Hamline Elementary was one of the schools I visited frequently when I worked for the Civil Rights division at the US DOJ.
ICE Agents Denied Entry At Chicago Elementary School, Officials Say
Immigration agents arrived at Hamline Elementary School in Back of the Yards Friday, officials said. CPS administrators followed protocols and didn't let immigration agents in.
blockclubchicago.org
January 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Kudos and much love to the folks at Hamline. This is how how you do it! Hamline Elementary was one of the schools I visited frequently when I worked for the Civil Rights division at the US DOJ.
Guidance for school secretaries and front office staff.
Immigrant Students' Rights: A Guide for Schools' Front-Office Staff
A downloadable guide to help school staff familiarize themselves with immigrant students' rights and schools' responsibilities to them.
www.edweek.org
January 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Guidance for school secretaries and front office staff.
Sanctuary for immigrants in schools, houses of worship, and health care facilities has been rescinded. These spaces are no longer safe. www.npr.org/2025/01/21/n...
Trump administration strips schools, churches of immigration enforcement protections
The memo rescinds a Biden administration guideline that created "protected areas" consisting of places where "children gather, disaster or emergency relief sites, and social services establishments."
www.npr.org
January 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Sanctuary for immigrants in schools, houses of worship, and health care facilities has been rescinded. These spaces are no longer safe. www.npr.org/2025/01/21/n...
Here we go....Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...
Trump’s Deportation Plan Is Said to Start Next Week in Chicago (Gift Article)
The size of the planned immigration raids is unclear, but they would be the opening step in the president-elect’s goal of overseeing the largest deportation program in history.
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Here we go....Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...
Contemplating change? Want to increase capacity? Grow competency? Improve teaching and learning conditions? Re-calibrate context, expectations, and mindsets? Support a new leadership hire?
January 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Contemplating change? Want to increase capacity? Grow competency? Improve teaching and learning conditions? Re-calibrate context, expectations, and mindsets? Support a new leadership hire?
Slow down. Savor the moment. Be present. Enjoy the holidays.
December 25, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Slow down. Savor the moment. Be present. Enjoy the holidays.
GREAT news for educators - WEP has been repealed!!
LANDMARK Victory! GPO and WEP repealed | NEA
A win forty years in the making, NEA secures full retirement benefits for educators
www.nea.org
December 21, 2024 at 7:06 AM
GREAT news for educators - WEP has been repealed!!
Our first session is immediately after the holidays, so if you are interested, register now, before the holidays! Thanks to Dr. Jillayne Bose-Deakins and her team at True North District 804 for putting this professional learning opportunity together. #MTSS #multilingual #SPED #ESL
December 19, 2024 at 5:09 AM
Our first session is immediately after the holidays, so if you are interested, register now, before the holidays! Thanks to Dr. Jillayne Bose-Deakins and her team at True North District 804 for putting this professional learning opportunity together. #MTSS #multilingual #SPED #ESL