Natalia Benjamin, EdS, NBCT, MNTOY21
@mntoy21.bsky.social
🇬🇹Chapina 👩🏻🏫Liberatory Educator 📖Author
🌎Multilingual Learning ✊🏽Ethnic Studies Practitioner ✂️🎨Artist heart + crafts
🍎Minnesota Teacher of the Year 2021-2022
💻 NBCT
🌎Multilingual Learning ✊🏽Ethnic Studies Practitioner ✂️🎨Artist heart + crafts
🍎Minnesota Teacher of the Year 2021-2022
💻 NBCT
What a fun time National Science Teaching Association in the company of dedicated science teachers. Thank you for inviting me to speak and share my story as a keynote speaker. And thanks to Stile Education for the sponsorship!
📸 friends Sierra and Will
📸 NSTA photographer
📸 friends Sierra and Will
📸 NSTA photographer
November 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
What a fun time National Science Teaching Association in the company of dedicated science teachers. Thank you for inviting me to speak and share my story as a keynote speaker. And thanks to Stile Education for the sponsorship!
📸 friends Sierra and Will
📸 NSTA photographer
📸 friends Sierra and Will
📸 NSTA photographer
Thank you to Ana Mariella Rivera for hosting me on her podcast! youtu.be/bRb8o5hQp_k?...
Episodio 39 Entrevista a Natalia Benjamin
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October 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Thank you to Ana Mariella Rivera for hosting me on her podcast! youtu.be/bRb8o5hQp_k?...
Mil gracias @luisfitch por los posters y la oportunidad de platicar sobre el poder que tiene el arte para expresar mensajes. Mucho gusto de conocerlo también @gustavoliragarcia #urbanartvillage #eastlakestreet #immigrantvoices #communityart
August 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Mil gracias @luisfitch por los posters y la oportunidad de platicar sobre el poder que tiene el arte para expresar mensajes. Mucho gusto de conocerlo también @gustavoliragarcia #urbanartvillage #eastlakestreet #immigrantvoices #communityart
So appreciative of @mrjohnsonpaints for sharing his art with educators so they can share community’s hero’s stories through representative art. @colorwheelmpls #freeposters for teachers
August 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
So appreciative of @mrjohnsonpaints for sharing his art with educators so they can share community’s hero’s stories through representative art. @colorwheelmpls #freeposters for teachers
Thank you @colorwheelmpls for opening your doors to educators and supporting them with supplies!
August 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Thank you @colorwheelmpls for opening your doors to educators and supporting them with supplies!
Gracias @soymariellarivera por invitarme a tu programa de Historias & Huellas! Fue un gran honor! Y aún más poder haber visto a mi compatriota Rosa, una líder impactante en nuestra comunidad latina en Minnesota.
August 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Gracias @soymariellarivera por invitarme a tu programa de Historias & Huellas! Fue un gran honor! Y aún más poder haber visto a mi compatriota Rosa, una líder impactante en nuestra comunidad latina en Minnesota.
Michelle and I had the amazing opportunity to write an article for @langmag.bsky.social on Liberatory Learning through the Language of Identity, Language of Access. Thank you @corwinpress.bsky.social and Dan at Language Magazine for working with us!
August 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Michelle and I had the amazing opportunity to write an article for @langmag.bsky.social on Liberatory Learning through the Language of Identity, Language of Access. Thank you @corwinpress.bsky.social and Dan at Language Magazine for working with us!
A few weeks ago, we hosted the Ethnic Studies Symposium and Summit through a collaboration between the MN Ethnic Studies Coalition and UMN RIDGS Center. Educators came together to learn & network with e/o to provide Ss with liberatory learning experiences in schools. Blessed to know these people!
July 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
A few weeks ago, we hosted the Ethnic Studies Symposium and Summit through a collaboration between the MN Ethnic Studies Coalition and UMN RIDGS Center. Educators came together to learn & network with e/o to provide Ss with liberatory learning experiences in schools. Blessed to know these people!
I am a #ProudImmigrant and #CommunityMember striving to make a difference every day.
I come from a small but might country that’s suffered colonization and imperialistic domination. And even with that, my people are deeply loyal, hardworking, and resilient beyond measure.
I come from a small but might country that’s suffered colonization and imperialistic domination. And even with that, my people are deeply loyal, hardworking, and resilient beyond measure.
July 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I am a #ProudImmigrant and #CommunityMember striving to make a difference every day.
I come from a small but might country that’s suffered colonization and imperialistic domination. And even with that, my people are deeply loyal, hardworking, and resilient beyond measure.
I come from a small but might country that’s suffered colonization and imperialistic domination. And even with that, my people are deeply loyal, hardworking, and resilient beyond measure.
Thank you Isa and Monet for inviting me to present with you on Rochester Public Schools work to normalize multilingualism through Translanguaging. #COMPASSInstitute
📸Sara-Louise and Justine
📸Sara-Louise and Justine
June 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Thank you Isa and Monet for inviting me to present with you on Rochester Public Schools work to normalize multilingualism through Translanguaging. #COMPASSInstitute
📸Sara-Louise and Justine
📸Sara-Louise and Justine
It’s not everyday that you reunite with your beloved sisters. We worked together a few years back as teacher organizers. Today, Sabrina organized Multilingual Excellence Awards with LatinoLEAD and partners. Congratulations Gisela on your award. Your words moved me deeply! 🤎🖤❤️✊🏽
June 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It’s not everyday that you reunite with your beloved sisters. We worked together a few years back as teacher organizers. Today, Sabrina organized Multilingual Excellence Awards with LatinoLEAD and partners. Congratulations Gisela on your award. Your words moved me deeply! 🤎🖤❤️✊🏽
Come and join RPS and an amazing team of teachers in the Multilingual Learning Department! Posting for a districtwide instructional Facilitator in our department closed in a week.
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June 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Come and join RPS and an amazing team of teachers in the Multilingual Learning Department! Posting for a districtwide instructional Facilitator in our department closed in a week.
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Meet Rochester Public Schools teachers who joined the latest portfolio cohort for PELSB Heritage Language Teachers to obtain their licensure. So happy to learn from each other!
June 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Meet Rochester Public Schools teachers who joined the latest portfolio cohort for PELSB Heritage Language Teachers to obtain their licensure. So happy to learn from each other!
Reposted by Natalia Benjamin, EdS, NBCT, MNTOY21
Join me in giving a shoutout to the JM ML staff and students that came to #SCL4E 2025 and presented what they’ve been working on in their Literacy classes!
Posted with permission. @educationevolving.bsky.social
#multilinguallearners
Posted with permission. @educationevolving.bsky.social
#multilinguallearners
May 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Join me in giving a shoutout to the JM ML staff and students that came to #SCL4E 2025 and presented what they’ve been working on in their Literacy classes!
Posted with permission. @educationevolving.bsky.social
#multilinguallearners
Posted with permission. @educationevolving.bsky.social
#multilinguallearners
What a fun day of learning with amazing educators! A space where our youth led and presented alongside adults #SCL4E
It was so inspiring to hear from everyone how the theme “The Stories We Carry & The Future We Create” comes to life. Thanks @educationevolving.bsky.social for making it all happen!
It was so inspiring to hear from everyone how the theme “The Stories We Carry & The Future We Create” comes to life. Thanks @educationevolving.bsky.social for making it all happen!
May 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
What a fun day of learning with amazing educators! A space where our youth led and presented alongside adults #SCL4E
It was so inspiring to hear from everyone how the theme “The Stories We Carry & The Future We Create” comes to life. Thanks @educationevolving.bsky.social for making it all happen!
It was so inspiring to hear from everyone how the theme “The Stories We Carry & The Future We Create” comes to life. Thanks @educationevolving.bsky.social for making it all happen!
It was so fun to meet some of our incoming Kindergarten families and students at the @RPS Kindergarten Kick Off! #multilinguallearning
May 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It was so fun to meet some of our incoming Kindergarten families and students at the @RPS Kindergarten Kick Off! #multilinguallearning
So inspiring to learn about the journey to launch the new Karen language program in SPPS.
And always a joy to listen to dear teachers like Ethalow present about their work.
Bilingual education teacher know what it takes to do it all from scratch! #languagerevitalization #multilingualism #MinnABE
And always a joy to listen to dear teachers like Ethalow present about their work.
Bilingual education teacher know what it takes to do it all from scratch! #languagerevitalization #multilingualism #MinnABE
April 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
So inspiring to learn about the journey to launch the new Karen language program in SPPS.
And always a joy to listen to dear teachers like Ethalow present about their work.
Bilingual education teacher know what it takes to do it all from scratch! #languagerevitalization #multilingualism #MinnABE
And always a joy to listen to dear teachers like Ethalow present about their work.
Bilingual education teacher know what it takes to do it all from scratch! #languagerevitalization #multilingualism #MinnABE
Thanks Ethalow for capturing this candid moment! The first #MinnABE conference was a great space to connect to bilingual education work taking place across the state.
So fun to share practical classroom applications that foster language development while centering students in learning. #LILAbook
So fun to share practical classroom applications that foster language development while centering students in learning. #LILAbook
April 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
So fun to attend the first MinnABE conference with this talented group of bilingual education teachers from the Rochester Public Schools Spanish Immersion program! Lots of connections to best practices and an opportunity to network with other bilingual education professionals.
April 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
So fun to attend the first MinnABE conference with this talented group of bilingual education teachers from the Rochester Public Schools Spanish Immersion program! Lots of connections to best practices and an opportunity to network with other bilingual education professionals.