Meet the team

Co founders
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Dr. Ellen-Rose Kambel
Rutu Foundation
info@languagefriendlyschool.org

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Dr. Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman
University of Toronto
e.lepichon@utoronto.ca

LFS Team
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Hilda Heyde
Programme Officer Language Friendly School
hilda@rutufoundation.org

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Function
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Ambassadors

Prof. Jim Cummins
University of Toronto, Canada

Carol Benson
independent multilingual education consultant
United States

Prof. Carol Anne Spreen
New York University
United States

Prof. Salim Vally
University of Johannesburg
South Africa

Prof. Nathalie Auger
Université de Montpellier
France

Partners

PH Wien
The PH Wien manages the voXmi-network. In partnership, we carried out the LERI project. For the language friendly lesson plans and other outcomes, have a look here.

HLNE
Heritage Language Network Eindhoven brings together heritage language schools and other organizations celebrating mother languages in the southern region of the Netherlands.

OISE
The Roadmap to welcoming all languages

Our Roadmap shows what Language Friendly Schools commit to. The first section shows the basic requirements of becoming a Language Friendly School. The Roadmap also provides ideas for activities as a school and in the classroom. These are all optional.

In the onboarding process of becoming a Language Friendly School, this Roadmap can prove to be helpful. The  Roadmap is reviewed by the school's entire team. Parents and children may be involved here. The school determines if the first requirements are met, which activities of the school level or classroom level the school is already doing, and which activities the school plans on doing the next year.

Start the onboarding!
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