Joanna Yip 葉天恩
@joyipster.bsky.social
Joanna Yip 葉天恩 is a multilingual learner consultant and a language and literacy leader. She partners with system leaders on curriculum and professional learning strategy for multilingual learner success.
When I’m consulting w. teams on leading change for multilingual learners, I’m often just asking: Did you talk to so and so in your district? Are you having conversations w XYZ? Can you talk to XYZ about it? The connections in between elements in the system is where the real magic happens!
May 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
When I’m consulting w. teams on leading change for multilingual learners, I’m often just asking: Did you talk to so and so in your district? Are you having conversations w XYZ? Can you talk to XYZ about it? The connections in between elements in the system is where the real magic happens!
Hey, reading scientists: Most of the planet is multilingual. Time to stop making excuses for not having expertise in multilingual language development. After all, you are a reading researcher, right?
April 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Hey, reading scientists: Most of the planet is multilingual. Time to stop making excuses for not having expertise in multilingual language development. After all, you are a reading researcher, right?
“An organization will never perform at a level higher than the consciousness of its senior leadership. The collective consciousness of senior leadership is the primary carrier of the culture.”
From Mastering Leadership, Anderson & Adams
From Mastering Leadership, Anderson & Adams
April 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“An organization will never perform at a level higher than the consciousness of its senior leadership. The collective consciousness of senior leadership is the primary carrier of the culture.”
From Mastering Leadership, Anderson & Adams
From Mastering Leadership, Anderson & Adams
A riff on a quote from Trium:
A school/district is a perfect reflection of its school leader and leadership team.
A school/district is a perfect reflection of its school leader and leadership team.
April 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A riff on a quote from Trium:
A school/district is a perfect reflection of its school leader and leadership team.
A school/district is a perfect reflection of its school leader and leadership team.
If we ask teachers to meet new expectations in their work, how will our work as leaders need to change to effectively support them to make this shift? How does our own practice need to change to match these expectations? Don’t expect different results if different support is not offered.
April 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
If we ask teachers to meet new expectations in their work, how will our work as leaders need to change to effectively support them to make this shift? How does our own practice need to change to match these expectations? Don’t expect different results if different support is not offered.
A good day: our book in the wild; the science of language/literacy in action; reconnecting w. teacher I coached 10 years ago who built a literacy program into a school-wide focus; I facilitated discussion on making evidence-based decisions; we surfaced misconceptions still obscuring our path.
April 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A good day: our book in the wild; the science of language/literacy in action; reconnecting w. teacher I coached 10 years ago who built a literacy program into a school-wide focus; I facilitated discussion on making evidence-based decisions; we surfaced misconceptions still obscuring our path.
Punched me in the gut today. Good reminder (Stiggins, 2006)
March 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Punched me in the gut today. Good reminder (Stiggins, 2006)
Making time for reflection and self-awareness IS the role of the leader/what a leader does. An organization is the reflection of the psychology of its leader(s).
March 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Making time for reflection and self-awareness IS the role of the leader/what a leader does. An organization is the reflection of the psychology of its leader(s).
Black and multilingual literacies need to conspire with one another to secure success for all (not just some) linguistically minoritized children.
March 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Black and multilingual literacies need to conspire with one another to secure success for all (not just some) linguistically minoritized children.
Love when folks I work with pay it forward. 💙💜🩵
March 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Love when folks I work with pay it forward. 💙💜🩵
Some of the answers you seek to serve newcomers are not at the lesson level. If you don’t look at your whole system, you won’t see what’s needed to accelerate language and literacy over time.
February 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Some of the answers you seek to serve newcomers are not at the lesson level. If you don’t look at your whole system, you won’t see what’s needed to accelerate language and literacy over time.
Remember that some things will always belong to the people.
February 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Remember that some things will always belong to the people.
The antidote to the madness is community and love.
February 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The antidote to the madness is community and love.
春節快樂！恭喜發財！ 祝大家來年充滿喜樂和平安，身體健康，精神飽滿，心情輕快，神想事成！All the things! This Year of the Snake is starting off ROUGH but we will outsmart T’s snake oil and bullshit! We fight and do it together!
January 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
春節快樂！恭喜發財！ 祝大家來年充滿喜樂和平安，身體健康，精神飽滿，心情輕快，神想事成！All the things! This Year of the Snake is starting off ROUGH but we will outsmart T’s snake oil and bullshit! We fight and do it together!
Please don’t blame your Tier 1 core instruction problem on your multilingual learners. Everyone can do better on that front, but if you haven’t even gotten the basics down, stop the scapegoating.
January 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Please don’t blame your Tier 1 core instruction problem on your multilingual learners. Everyone can do better on that front, but if you haven’t even gotten the basics down, stop the scapegoating.
Hot off the press! This was a VERY tall order. How do you capture all the things for truly comprehensive literacy materials? I am so grateful I got to work on this assignment with a superstar working group.
calcurriculum.org/resource/emp...
calcurriculum.org/resource/emp...
Empowering Early Literacy: A Guide to TK–5 Instructional Materials for California Districts - CalCurriculum
calcurriculum.org
December 20, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Hot off the press! This was a VERY tall order. How do you capture all the things for truly comprehensive literacy materials? I am so grateful I got to work on this assignment with a superstar working group.
calcurriculum.org/resource/emp...
calcurriculum.org/resource/emp...
Great to join the OHM BOCES book study with teachers taking time out of their day to collaborate on serving multilingual learners using strategies from our book!
Book title: Sentence Strategies for Multilingual Learners: Advancing Academic Literacy through Combinations (Panero & Yip, 2024)
Book title: Sentence Strategies for Multilingual Learners: Advancing Academic Literacy through Combinations (Panero & Yip, 2024)
December 16, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Great to join the OHM BOCES book study with teachers taking time out of their day to collaborate on serving multilingual learners using strategies from our book!
Book title: Sentence Strategies for Multilingual Learners: Advancing Academic Literacy through Combinations (Panero & Yip, 2024)
Book title: Sentence Strategies for Multilingual Learners: Advancing Academic Literacy through Combinations (Panero & Yip, 2024)
Some folks were ready yesterday to do the work. Some folks are not ready now but that doesn’t mean they won’t be ready later. Some folks will never be ready. It’s not always about how hard you try.
December 13, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Some folks were ready yesterday to do the work. Some folks are not ready now but that doesn’t mean they won’t be ready later. Some folks will never be ready. It’s not always about how hard you try.
Language and content integration in Tier 1 core instruction is both the challenge and the solution for multilingual learner success.
December 13, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Language and content integration in Tier 1 core instruction is both the challenge and the solution for multilingual learner success.
You don’t have to be bilingual to create space for your bilingual students to be bilingual. ~Kelly Cooney
December 11, 2024 at 3:55 PM
You don’t have to be bilingual to create space for your bilingual students to be bilingual. ~Kelly Cooney
Fight like a fighter! Shine like the sun! Advice from one friend to another when the other falls down.
December 7, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Fight like a fighter! Shine like the sun! Advice from one friend to another when the other falls down.
Serving multilingual learners is a back door to system improvement; we go in through the back with a Trojan horse for change management.
December 3, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Serving multilingual learners is a back door to system improvement; we go in through the back with a Trojan horse for change management.
We can’t PD our way out of an equity problem (i.e. multilingual learner equity, literacy justice, linguistic and cultural liberation) because it’s a system-level issue, not just an instructional one.
December 3, 2024 at 6:46 PM
We can’t PD our way out of an equity problem (i.e. multilingual learner equity, literacy justice, linguistic and cultural liberation) because it’s a system-level issue, not just an instructional one.
The problem with mindset and buy-in does not lie in your people. The problem lies in your leadership. Ouch. Too much?
December 1, 2024 at 9:53 PM
The problem with mindset and buy-in does not lie in your people. The problem lies in your leadership. Ouch. Too much?
Writing is longing and belonging.
November 23, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Writing is longing and belonging.