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
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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
Art: “Isolation” by Jeena Ann Kidambi In my last article, we talked about the importance of academic achievement as one of the three pillars of Dual Language Education. It is
Art: “Kavalai” by Jeena Ann Kidambi The three pillars of Dual Language Education are high academic achievement, bilingualism and biliteracy, and sociocultural competence. By nature of the program, our focus
Art: “Schule” by Jeena Ann Kidambi Historically in the United States, bilingual education has been inextricably connected to race. This link makes sense since embedded in language is identity, and
Why do you have a Dual Language Education (DLE) Program? Is it because it’s really chic for the well-to-do to learn an additional language other than English? Is it because