WABE 2026 Annual Conference

Dr. Beth Dillard is an Associate Professor in the Woodring College of Education at Western Washington University. She is the Director of Multilingual Education Community Programs. She has a PhD in Second Languages Education from the University of Minnesota (2016). Prior, she was a Secondary Social Studies teacher in Oregon. Her research interests include systemic functional linguistics (SFL), content and language integration, and teacher learning.

Western Washington University (WWU), our partner school districts, and Washington state share a commitment to increasing the number of bi/multilingual teachers from the communities in which they live, helping to build strong multilingual programs, and increasing the diversity of our teaching force to reflect our student populations. WWU offers MLE programming across multiple locations: Bellingham, Everett, Renton.