Travel: The best way to build cultural appreciation, connect with people from far away and dive into a foreign language. And for language immersion teachers, traveling is essentially as much of a basic need as breathing is. I haven’t met a single bilingual teacher who doesn’t love to travel! For us, traveling is win-win because […]
There is no more powerful testament to language inequity than “Spanish resources are really scarce!” We hear it all the time and it’s true, all the time. However, as time passes and dual language education continues growing in America, the market for Spanish resources also grows. The days of “scarce Spanish resources” are numbered because […]
In our last blog entry, we defined what an authentic book in Spanish is and we offered some alternatives to find these books in the US. Now, an authentic book is not synonymous with a great book. Even though it’s wonderful that it was written in Spanish first, we still have to evaluate its quality […]
In our last blog post, we discussed how to motivate children to speak in Spanish and balance the language inequity between English and Spanish in dual language programs. This time, we’ll tackle another big challenge: how to address the absence of authentic Spanish texts in our classrooms. But first, what is an authentic book in […]
“In my classroom, most kids can talk in Spanish…. but they don’t like to. I talk to them in Spanish always and their first instinct is to reply in English.” “It’s shocking to see students that talk Spanish at home, talking to each other in English… the power of English is incredible” “In the mornings […]
We are Laura and Berenice, two bilingual educators from Washington, D.C. Over the years, we have used our academic knowledge, intuition and creativity to carry out one of the toughest tasks in education: to teach in Spanish in the United States. If you are a fellow “in” Spanish teacher, you probably get the bolded letters, […]