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08 Apr

Teaching for the 2020-2021 School Year: Adaptations Part 4: PATIENCE

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
Welcome to the last entry of my blog series: Adaptations – Teaching in the 2020-2021 School Year. This week: PATIENCE.   I have never been tried for my patience more than this school year. Patience with technology. Patience with families. Patience with students. Patience with colleagues. And most of all, patience with myself. Let me elaborate....  PATIENCE WITH TECHNOLOGY  Talk about a learning curve. Steepest EVER! Technology is to thank for why we can continue to safely learn from home during this pandemic. Read More...
09 Mar

Adaptations – Teaching in the 2020-2021 School Year, Part 3: TECH AND TEACHING FLEXIBILITY

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
Welcome to part three of my blog series on teaching for biliteracy during a pandemic! As you've likely begun settling into some changes, perhaps you have some thoughts on Technology and ways you've incorporated additional Teaching Flexibility.  Technology. Wow. I think about what would have happened if we experienced this pandemic when I was in elementary school in the 1980s. It would have given a whole new meaning to parents as teachers! We are so lucky to have the ability to continue Read More...
19 Feb

Adaptations – Teaching in the 2020-2021 School Year, Part 2: ORGANIZATION

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher, Uncategorized
Welcome back! How are your adaptations coming along? Little by little, thing will improve, I promise! Let’s talk...ORGANIZATION.  This week’s blog is about organization in this 2020-2021 school year. Not so much the classroom set-up (although I do have a few more tips), which was my focus on the last blog, but ORGANIZATION in reference to planning, papers, and people.  PLANNING  I like to think of myself as an organized person. Unit planning is MY FAVORITE, and perhaps you know about my unit Read More...
23 Jan

Adaptations – Teaching in the 2020-2021 School Year, Part 1: CLASSROOM SET UP

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
As all of us are aware, ADAPT has forcibly become the modus operandi of the 2020-2021 school year. We are all teaching and interacting and planning in ways we never could have imagined just one year ago. And yet we’re DOING IT. Way to go, everyone! As Dual Language Educators, we have unique added challenges to our adaptations. In many cases we are teaching language over the computer, whether for a portion of the day or all of it. Our Read More...
05 Aug

An Open Letter to Dual Language Families

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
An Open Letter to Dual Language Families   Dear Dual Language Families, We could never have imagined the world we are currently experiencing. The repercussions of this worldwide pandemic have altered our children’s learning to configurations we never could have predicted. It is new for all of us: parents, teachers, administrators, and, most of all, students. Your child’s learning opportunities have likely drastically changed from even a year ago. Your vision of school included your child interacting in two languages, partnering with children Read More...
04 May

A couple of FAQs…About the English Side!

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
Now more than every we are ridden with unanswerable questions. What happens next? How are my students? Can we do anything about this ever-widening gap? And most importantly, are all the people I love and care about going to stay well? I hope you are well. There is so much uncertainty around us during this pandemic; I wanted to focus this month’s blog on some things that ARE answerable. So… What are the answers to some of the Frequently Asked Read More...
03 Mar

The Resource Dilemma

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher, Uncategorized
Resources, resources, resources! It always feels like we need more: more books, more guidance, more authentic texts, more manipulatives. Once in a blue moon, a district has the funds to adopt new resources. Teachers cheer, “Woohoo!” Classrooms get filled with boxes upon boxes of this new resource, and we spend many hours figuring out how to store all of these new materials. And then the daunting task follows… How am I going to USE this? My teaching partner, Bebi, and I Read More...
15 Jul

My Summer Dual Language To-Do List

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
It’s here! SUMMER! A time for teachers to relax by the beach, beverage in hand, care-free, and happy. Or, if you’re like most teachers, a time to finally read that professional journal you received in January, comb the local bookstores for a used copy of those theme-related books you need, clean out EVERY drawer in your desk at school, and maybe every once in a while enjoy a show on Netflix without grading papers at the same time. For me, summer is more of the Read More...
28 Feb

Advocating for Dual Language: It DOES Take a Village!

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
I believe so very much in the power of a well-developed dual language program. The research is so compelling; it motivates me to do my job better and continuously refine my practice to teach more efficiently, especially for my English Language Learners. Here are some research links and helpful articles: Impact of Two Way Immersion on Students’ Attitudes Toward School and College (Lindholm-Leary and Borsato) Bilingual Effects on Cognitive and Linguistic Development: Role of Language, Cultural Background, and Education (Barac and Bialystok) Two is better Read More...
06 Sep

District Mandates and Biliteracy

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
It’s a question we get a lot: “What happens if my district says I HAVE to use ___(insert program name here)____  with my class? I’m not sure how to integrate it with biliteracy instruction!” I’m not here to tell you to NOT follow the directions of your administration! I understand (completely, believe me) that sometimes we are mandated to do things that may not match our philosophy, the most recent research, or the needs of our students. However, I have a Read More...
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