Art: “The 7 Sides of Multilingual Instruction™” by Jeena Ann Kidambi The 7 Sides of Dual Language Instruction™ has caught the attention of many practitioners lately, but I have had
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Art: “Reading to my heart’s content” by Jeena Ann Kidambi A topic that I find repeated in conversations over and over again is what’s going to happen to our Dual
Art: “A Child’s Imagination” by Jeena Ann Kidambi When children are little, they display high amounts of creative potential. They transform into royalty living in castles.They have fancy tea parties
Art: “Conundrum” by Jeena Ann Kidambi When we talk about Dual Language Bilingual Education, we often focus on elementary grades – but let’s step aside and think about what middle
Art: “Warm Demander II” by Jeena Ann Kidambi As the school year starts to ramp up, it is important to remind ourselves how important teachers and administrators are – especially
Art: “The Warm Demander” by Jeena Ann Kidambi I was recently casually talking to a middle school teacher-friend of mine. Her urban school has a large percentage of emergent bilingual
Art: “New Money” by Jeena Ann Kidambi Emergent Bilinguals: At-Risk of What? 3 Strategies to Support Emergent Bilinguals Students who speak another language at home and come into our school
Graphic courtesy of Multistate Association of Bilingual Education, Northeast. There are three pillars of Dual Language Education (DLE): academic achievement in both languages, biliteracy and bilingualism, and sociocultural competence. Usually,
Art: “The Lottery” by Jeena Ann Kidambi I often talk about how Dual Language Education (DLE) programming is about both language and equity. For some students, DLE programs are in
Several years ago, the two of us worked together as English (Shera) and Spanish (Liz) co-teachers in a dual language program, an arrangement that we refer to as Tandem Teaching.