Moving Beyond for Multilingual Learners: The Blog

 I love the "cringey" moments of realizing how much time I spent hyperfixating on a certain song or a specific group (umm hey, hey BEACH BOYS) throughout the year, and I love seeing what folks on social media spent time listening to this year when they share their "Spoty Wrapped" posts.  Here's a few templates for you to use and a few thoughts & ideas about how to use them.  Canva: This link was shared by a creator named Kayla Martin.  Here's another I found from "Figma"  A third from Kapwing In 2022, I shared this blog post that had a few thoughts & ideas for sharing these templates with students and reflecting on how much they've learned so far this school year, or throughout their whole calendar year. I also shared the idea of using a template to make posters that demonstrate how many languages you have in your school setting - listing them out and publicly bragging about your linguistic diversity is amaaazing. Love it.  In 2022, I ...

Our education systems have really grown in our capacities to prioritize the social-emotional health and mental well-being of our students. In many schools, there are dedicated blocks of time throughout a week where components of SEL are being implemented. Many schools have invested in stronger and richer professional learning opportunities to help educators as they support the SEL needs of their students. All of this is great and I hope that we continue to make this a priority. However, I want us to pause for a second. I’m a person who is a reflective languager- meaning I often pause to reflect on the language choices that I make. I also reflect on the language choices of those around me. I’ve written about this in multiple spaces about how the language choices we use often demonstrates our beliefs, and sometimes those things that are said about students we serve can demonstrate bias and lead to problematic practices that can go unchecked.  In the last few years, in educational spa...