Figure 1.1: Shadowing Reflection Wordle After shadowing multilingual learners, educators often use words like “frustrating,” “insightful,” “cold,” and “enlightening” to describe the experience. Such reflections often become the catalyst for change and a way to disrupt silence on behalf of multilingual learners (MLLs). I like to describe the entire shadowing process
Every school district across the country is acutely aware that English learner populations are growing rapidly. Often when I hear educators talk about needs of English learners, they have a tendency to focus on newcomer immigrant students. Yes, their language needs are important, but we
Our middle school ESL begins with the eighth graders arriving early at 1:25 pm. At 1:30, the seventh graders speed-walk in, followed by a burst of sixth graders who scramble to their seats. The students greet one another with daps and saludos in English and