ML Chat: Conversations with Multilingual Educators

About ML Chat: Conversations with Multilingual Educators

ML Chat explores everything to do with Multilingual student instruction. Do you oversee students that are learning English? ML Chat is the place to learn more and continue to refine your craft. In each episode co-hosts Mandi Morris and Andrew Brandt talk with experts, researchers, and district administrators to explore how to best serve our language learners.

Publisher

Flashlight Learning

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Nov 2022

Latest episode

30 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

82 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Putting Policy to Work with Dr. Megan Alubicki-Flick

   Drawing on decades of experience from the classroom to research and state-level policy, Dr. Megan Alubicki-Flick shares what it takes to turn policy into action that supports multilingual learners. She explains why shared responsibility across systems, leaders, and educators is essential to advancing common goals. She also emphasizes recognizing your sphere of influence and why moving work forward sometimes means choosing progress over perfection.

2. 

   17 Sept 2026

   The Lens Behind the Data with Dr. Doris Chavez-Linville

   Dr. Doris Chavez-Linville challenges educators and leaders to question the framework they use to interpret data. Drawing on more than 25 years in EdTech and research on multilingual learner assessment, she explains why data should inform decisions, not make them. She encourages educators to consider what students know across their languages and experiences, drawing on their full linguistic repertoires to support learning.

3. 

   2 Sept 2026

   Patrice Thompson: Making Room for Every Language

   From her own journey as a language learner to teaching in South Korea, China, and Morocco, multilingual educator and consultant Patrice Thompson has seen firsthand how language policies shape students’ experiences. She shares how translanguaging can move classrooms beyond English-only practices, along with strategies like language buddies and multilingual note-taking that let students use their strongest language to support comprehension.

Who has been a guest on ML Chat: Conversations with Multilingual Educators

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Marlowe Cross
• Jon Auld
• Graham Litterst
• Erick Casallas

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

20 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 44 / 100

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Quality

60

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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