In a final blow to Elon Musk, the Senate has passed the Gabriella Miller Research Act to ensure that children's cancer research gets funded. This is Rep. Jennifer Wexton's bill, who is retiring due to a neurological disease. RETWEET to thank Rep. Jennifer Wexton for her service! 💙

First Amazon calls the cops on striking workers and now they break open the fire hydrants in the freezing cold. All that’s left is releasing the dogs and they’ve got a Pinkerton trifecta. But that only means that the striking Amazon Teamsters are winning and making history.

Well done Rolling Stone for reporting it accurately.

So often educational policy for reading is designed around monolingual outcomes. Teachers have to lead on the edge putting them at risk in order to do the right thing for bilingual learners Full Article: californianstogether.org/wp-content/upl… #NCEL #biliteracy #educacionbilingue #duallanguage

To teach bilingual children how to read, we must also understand how the bilingual reading brain works. Always grateful to Judith Ravina Sánchez -🇨🇴 and Tarrytown Schools for letting me lead the powerful session on enhancing biliteracy development. ... #bilingualbrain #biliteracy #SorforMLLs

BLACK PPL MUST WATCH!! Listen and believe EVERY word she’s saying! TRUST and believe everything you’re witnessing right before your eyes 👀!!! End DEI 🤷🏽‍♀️… Yet,Trump & the GOP is SCARED to level the playing field & play fair! Banded Black History from schools…hoping to erase

🌟TABE #AffiliatesFriday Spotlight: BEAM DFW is thrilled to announce their 41st Annual Symposium: Advocacy Sin Límites! 🎉 📅 April 5, 2024 📍 Carrollton, TX ✨ Keynote Speakers: Dr. José Medina (él, he, his, him) and Dr. Lillian Ardell | Bilingual Ed Advocate ✨ Join BEAM DFW for a day of inspiration and advocacy! 💬💪

Cultivating how multilingual learners use language to make meaning of new learning can happen at word, sentence, & discourse levels. Sentence patterning is a high leverage instructional scaffold to support syntactic awareness- important strand of reading rope! #biliteracy

When teachers come together & integrate language acquisition with language arts with social studies and science content...magic happens! #biliteracy #languageacquisition #shelteredinstruction #duallanguage #teaching #learning #scienceofreading #multilingualism #teachers

Time to reimagine and redesign your Spanish & English foundational skills scope and sequences into ONE Holistic Bilingual Scope & Sequence that integrates Science of Reading research w/Language Acquisition research. Register today with the link here: palmamledsolutions.com/events/

James Tate It hasn’t passed in the House yet. Call your representatives!

You’re about to hear all kinds of things about a bill called the SAVE Act. Congressional Republicans are using it as a cover to take away voting rights from thousands of Americans—all while claiming it’s about stopping non-citizens from voting. 5 things to know 🧵👇🏻

Enhance your bilingual teaching with an immersive experience in Spain. Learn advanced strategies, gain hands-on practice, and expand your teaching toolkit in Seville, Spain. Join our info sessions on: 📅 March 27 | April 10 and 24 | May 8 ⏰ 5:30 PM CST Contact us for the details

Enjoy this podcast as we share palabra about the work we are engaging in nationwide with holistic foundational skills for multilingual learners. Huge abrazos and agradecimiento to the Bilingual in America familia! Listen now! open.spotify.com/episode/1KJBjh…

We dismantled & we rebuilt with a holistic lens! How to redesign la secuencia de destrezas fundamentales in DL? 1. Spanish como la columna 2.Layer English in service of Spanish according to language allocation 3.Leverage Cross-Linguistic Connections explicitly and frequently

Just wrapped up another amazing semana of supporting MLs with opinion based pedagogía de lectoescritura. We developed destrezas de oralidad y debate usando debate prompts within espacios de translenguaje! When the condiciones for biliteracy are created- bilingual magia happens!

Momentum is building!! In our latest workshop, district líderes have... 🌟 drafted *new* holistic sequence to honor the bilingual children their district serves 🌟 added explicit cadence for cross linguistic transfer w/ protocols grounded in translanguaging theory

🚨¡Líderes of Dual Language Programs! 🚨 🗓️ Sept. 25, Oct. 9, Oct. 23, Nov. 20, Dec. 18 📌 Virtual on Zoom! 🔗Información para inscribirse: lnkd.in/enVEDs5Z 👥 Who should apply? District/School Leaders, Instr. Specialists, minimum of 2 participants/district to qualify.

Thanks to Dir. Carmen Vargas we got to meet Mario Palma Multilingual Solutions for a Dual Language powerhouse session! We unpacked the three pillars of DL & created our own lesson plans! First of 3 sessions! Can’t wait for the next one soon! Thank you Mario Palma Multilingual Solutions Dir. Carmen Vargas

Best practices en acción! Mario Palma Multilingual Solutions worked his magic in first grade today! TPR, songs, and lots of learning! Thank you Dir. Carmen Vargas and Mario Palma Multilingual Solutions for Day ✌️