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Interdisciplinary Biliteracy Planning Template
Mercuri and Musanti with Rodriquez created an interdisciplinary biliteracy planning template to showcase examples of instruction and assessment from bilingual classes across elementary grade levels, in different types of dual language programs, and serving different populations. In their book they also include a step-by-step guide on how to use the flexible interdisciplinary biliteracy planning template to teach for authentic interdisciplinary biliteracy.
Publication: La enseñanza en el aula bilingüe: Content, language, and biliteracy
Topic: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
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Interdisciplinary Biliteracy Webinar
Interdisciplinary biliteracy refers to holistic, dynamic literacy practices connecting content areas in two languages. This interactive session shows how teachers use standard-based talking, reading and writing across the curriculum and languages in flexible ways to provide equitable access to content knowledge for all students. The authors, Sandra Mercuri and Sandra Musanti, will demonstrate how to design cross-linguistic connections at the text, sentence and word levels to further develop the academic language of the disciplines. Viewers will also learn how to use the preview-view-review activity structure as an effective bilingual strategy to make complex content and text comprehensible for bilingual learners and provide opportunities for students to develop biliteracy in any content area.
Publication: La enseñanza en el aula bilingüe: Content, language, and biliteracy
Topic: Professional Development
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La Cosecha 2021 Presentations
Transforming Sanchez School: Shared Leadership, Equity and Evidence
Friday, November 12, 11:10 AM-12:30 PM EST
This workshop describes the innovative structures of shared leadership, community engagement, and biliteracy instruction at both preschool and elementary school levels that transformed Sanchez Elementary School in San Francisco’s Mission District from a failing dysfunctional school to one that significantly outperformed a large majority of schools with similar demographic characteristics.
Publication: Caslon Community
Topic: Professional Development
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Science of Reading Clip
This is a clip of Kathy Escamilla's presentation during the 2021 CABE conference, titled "Developing (Bi)Literacy for Emerging Bilingual Learners: Research Based Approaches".
Publication: Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action
Topic: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
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Translanguaging Conversation Question 1: What do you mean by the Translanguaging Stance?
Here is a short clip of what you can expect from a series of recorded conversations between the authors of The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning, Ofelia García, Kate Seltzer, and Susana Ibarra Johnson, that will be available through Caslon Learning.
In this 2-minute clip Ofelia García explains the concept of the juntos stance. The juntos stance is informed by three beliefs of joint collaboration:
1. Students’ language practices and cultural understanding encompass those they bring from home and communities, as well as those they take up in schools. These practices and understanding work juntos (together) and enrich each other.
2. Students’ families and communities are valuable sources of knowledge and must be involved in the education process juntos.
3. The classroom is a democratic space where teachers and students juntos co-create knowledge, challenge traditional hierarchies, and work toward a more just society.
Publication: The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning
Topic: Professional Development
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