Social Justice Activist. Director of Multilingual Education at Framingham Public Schools. Vice President of MABE. ✨Total nerd and proud of it✨ ( she/ella/ela)
All that glitters isn't gold, and all that claims to be Dual Language, isn't Dual Language. Are you following the nonnegotiables of DL? If not, how do you communicate that to parents and the powers that be? https://t.co/Ib4tqhBqID
Do colleagues ever tell you that our simultaneous bilinguals are "low language?" We know that is not true!
Check out this post to learn the research that proves how amazing our simultaneous bilinguals really are. https://t.co/Pbuas0qMEY
As we teach our Dual Language students to fight racial and other injustices, do we remember to teach them resilience for when they don't experience success? Here are 5 research-based strategies for student activists to build resilience. https://t.co/hnLKlkX6Jj
Dual Language lotteries are based on the microaggression theme of fairness and meritocracy. Read more about why we need to allow all Emergent Bilinguals who have the LOTE as a home language into our programs. https://t.co/erVXyeTssf