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Today I welcome Dr Carla España and Dr. Luz Yadira Herrera for a conversation about supporting bilingual and multilingual students in monolingual or dual language classrooms. We discuss culturally and linguistically-affirming and sustaining practices, their advice for choosing texts to use for literacy lessons, and they share examples of some lessons we can use in classrooms right away. In the second half, I’m joined by my colleagues, bilingual educators and consultants, Cristy Rauseo, Clarisa Leal, and Angie Forero to discuss what we’ll bring to the classroom right away.
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Links to resources referenced in this episode:
En Comunidad Collective
En Comunidad: Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Students
Translanguaging Collections: Affirming Bilingual and Multilingual Learners
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About this episode's guests:
Carla España, Ph.D.
Carla is a teacher, literacy consultant, researcher, author, and co-founder of the En Comunidad Collective. Her love of stories and teaching comes from her roots in Chile and has been nurtured by hundreds of teachers and students across schools in New York City and beyond.
She has a BS in communication studies from New York University, an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, an MA in childhood education with a bilingual extension from Hunter College (City University of New York), and a Ph.D. in urban education from the Graduate Center (City University of New York). Dr. España’s teaching journey began in Harlem, New York with bilingual sixth graders and continues with teaching language arts in a middle-grade summer program.
She is currently an Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education, Puerto Rican/Latinx, and Latin American Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
Her teaching, research, coaching and writing live at the intersection of critical literacies, children’s literature, and bilingual education. Dr. España is co-author of En Comunidad: Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Students with Dr. Luz Yadira Herrera. Find her on Twitter @ProfesoraEspana.
Luz Yadira Herrera, Ph.D.
Luz Yadira is a teacher, researcher, author, and co-founder of the En Comunidad Collective. She has over fifteen years of experience in the education of emergent bilinguals in both mainstream and bilingual settings.
She has a BA in international development studies and Portuguese from UCLA, an MA in TESOL from Pace University, and a Ph.D. in urban education from the Graduate Center (City University of New York). She started her teaching career in New York City public schools, teaching emergent bilinguals in K-6 in Harlem. Also, she taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the City College of New York, Long Island University, and Brooklyn College.
She is currently an Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education in the School of Education at California State University, Channel Islands.
Dr. Herrera's teaching and research are in culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogy, translanguaging, critical pedagogies, and bilingual education policy. She is the co-author of En Comunidad: Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Students with Dr. Carla España. Find her on Twitter @Dra_LuzYadira.
Special thanks to Scotty Sanders for audio editing this episode.
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