SCORE Webinar Series
Science of Comprehension for Reading Excellence (SCORE)
Speaker: Kindel Turner Nash, Ph.D., Spangler Distinguished Professor of Early Child Literacy – Appalachian State University
Date: Wednesday, April 29th
Time: 9:30-10:30 am
Cost: Free!
CEUs: 0.1 after participating in the live webinar
Title: Language is Love: Five Practices to Support Multilingual Learners in Your School
Description: In this session participants will think together about five literacy practices that support multilingual learners. Participants will broaden definitions of language and also of multilingual learners. We will engage with research and reader models that can support a broad range of multilingual learners as an act of love.
Bio: Dr. Kindel Turner Nash is the Spangler Distinguished Professor of Early Child Literacy in the Reich College of Education’s Department of Child Development, Literacy, and Special Education at Appalachian State University. A former classroom teacher and literacy specialist in schools that served historically marginalized children, Nash is first and foremost committed to humanizing and generative collaborations between classroom teachers and teacher preparation programs. Nash’s award-winning research centers on the literacy practices of highly effective teachers who educate historically underserved children. She has edited two books and authored more than forty peer-reviewed publications. Nash has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant awards from funders, including the U.S. Department of Education and the Spencer Foundation. In 2022, Nash was awarded the Early Literacy Teacher Educator of the Year by the National Council of Teachers of English. In 2025, she was recognized for her research and creative achievements by Appalachian State University.