Exploring & Enacting Holistic Language Pedagogies Project

The Exploring & Enacting Holistic Language Pedagogies Project brought together Ukrainian and U.S. secondary and post-secondary level teachers to form a Community of Practice where they learned and shared innovative and holistic teaching approaches.

Through biweekly webinars and workshops in the spring semester and an intensive virtual exchange in the summer, the Community of Practice cultivated connections, deepened English language teaching competencies, and supported implementation of student-centered, holistic, and inclusive pedagogies.

This was a project of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv and Childhood Education International.

Topics of Focus

Areas of focus included:

• Social-emotional learning
• Psychosocial support
• Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
• Project- and play-based learning
• Asset-based pedagogies

This project built on ongoing work with Ukrainian educators through our Center for Professional Learning’s Ukraine Education Support Projects,  Quality Holistic Learning, and Refugee Educator Academy.

Holistic Language Pedagogies: Ways Forward In Language Teaching & Learning

In October 2024, we hosted a series of six webinars featuring presentations from Ukrainian and American educators participating in the Holistic Language Pedagogies project. Presentations focused on a variety of aspects of language instruction, including language teaching strategies, using artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom, asset-based approaches to assessment, social-emotional learning, student and teacher wellbeing, growth mindset, and more. 

Watch Recordings of the Webinars