Celebrate the Season with CALEC: Event Recaps, Upcoming Publications, and our Holiday Gift Guide
December 2025
Winter is fast approaching, and the team at the Center for the Advancement of Languages, Education and Communities (CALEC) is excited to share what we have been up to as well as a few fun things we have planned for the season.
Events
CALEC at the Festival d’Hiver and Book Fair at Smith Street Maternelle in Brooklyn
On Saturday December 6th 2025, CALEC had the pleasure of attending the Smith Street Maternelle’s Festival d’Hiver and Book Fair.
It was a joy interacting with students and parents, and welcoming CALEC author Karine Cohen-Dicker for a reading of her book, Biscotte et le nouveau.
CALEC joins the Comité des Associations Françaises
We are excited to announce that CALEC has joined the Comité des Associations Françaises et de langue française de New York (CAFUSA).
As a new member, CALEC was proud to attend the year-end celebration hosted at the Consulate of France in New York on December 11, 2025.
CALEC at the Salon du Livre et de la Presse Jeunesse
From November 26 to December 1, 2025, our France-based team participated in the Salon du Livre et de la Presse Jeunesse in Montreuil. It was an enriching experience that allowed us to make new connections and introduce a wider audience to the work of our talented authors and editors. We showcased our catalog of more than 250 titles from TBR Books and CALEC Éditions, featuring multilingual children’s literature as well as works focused on bilingualism, education, and cultural history.
Publications
Pre-Order Alert: Bridging Worlds: The Power of Heritage Languages in Social Cohesion
CALEC is thrilled to announce that our new title, Bridging Worlds: The Power of Heritage Languages in Social Cohesion, is now available for pre-order.
Bridging Worlds: The Power of Heritage Languages in Social Cohesion reveals how heritage languages shape identity, strengthen communities, and build more inclusive societies. Featuring global scholars and community leaders, this volume explores bilingual classrooms, immigrant families, policy innovations, and grassroots initiatives across continents.
Visit our website to pre-order your copy: Bridging Worlds: The Power of Heritage Languages in Social Cohesion
Call for Papers
Game On! Using Videogames to Learn Languages and Explore Cultures
Our upcoming publication, Game On! Using Videogames to Learn Languages and Explore Cultures is inviting contributors to explore how digital play can support multilingualism, encourage cultural awareness, and open doors to global communication. This book aims to illuminate the pedagogical, cultural, and narrative potential of videogames in fostering language acquisition and intercultural dialogue around the world.
We are seeking proposals from scholars, teachers, game designers, practitioners, gamers, language aficionados, community educators, and first-time authors. Contributions representing diverse linguistic, cultural, and educational environments are welcome.
Visit our website for more information on this project: Call for Papers: Game On! Using Videogames to Learn Languages and Explore Cultures
Champions of Multilingual Futures: Bilingual Leaders Transforming Education
Champions of Multilingual Futures will bring together voices of school and system leaders who are shaping the next generation of multilingual education. Through engaging, accessible narratives, contributors will share how they have founded, led, and sustained Dual Language Immersion (DLI) and multilingual programs that center students’ linguistic and cultural strengths.
This volume invites storytelling grounded in practice and purpose, writing that is both personal and visionary. Contributors may write in English or French.
Visit our website for more information on this project: Champions of Multilingual Futures
Holiday Gift Guide
Looking for thoughtful holiday gifts?
Discover CALEC’s Holiday Gift Guide, featuring curated sets of e-books for parents, educators and kids. Spread the joy and benefits of bilingualism with titles that celebrate language, culture and community.
Visit our website to order:
Holiday Gifts for Parents : E-Book Edition
https://calec.org/.../holiday-gift-guide-for-parents.../...
Holiday Gifts for Educators: E-Book Edition
https://calec.org/.../holiday-gift-guide-for-parents.../...
Holiday Gifts for Kids: E-Book Edition
https://calec.org/.../holiday-gifts-for-kids-e-book.../...
To learn more about ways in which you can support CALEC, please visit our website. You can also find all of our publications in our catalog.
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