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
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: “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
In a recent conversation I had with a Tamil-language school, I was asked, “Which Tamil is tested for the Seal of Biliteracy?” The question certainly came from a good place
One of the three pillars of Dual Language Education is sociocultural competence. Sociocultural competence involves being able to fight for injustices and work across the aisle with those whose identities
We all know that Dual Language Education (DLE) programs are the only language-acquisitions programs that are research-proven to close the opportunity gap for our Emergent Bilinguals (Thomas & Collier, 2017).