Research
Explore our published insights designed to help advance the field’s understanding of what works for English Learners, Dual Language Learners, and Multilingual Learners.
SEAL Brief: Centering Multilingual Families in California Community Schools
Community schools are schools where the resources and voices of the staff, families and community are organized around supporting student success.
SEAL Brief: Promising STEM Practices for ELs/EBs
The California Department of Education will soon release a new Mathematics Framework that could significantly strengthen the pipeline of underrepresented English learners/emergent bilinguals (ELs/EBs) into STEM careers
Early Literacy Development and Instruction for Dual Language Learners in Early Childhood Education
Research in bilingual education points to critical characteristics of quality early childhood programs for dual language learners that include their home language and culture, fully engage their families as educational partners, and implement linguistically and culturally responsive approaches.
Literature of Windows & Mirrors Bibliography
A series of wonderful books to be used in a classroom that address gender, race, economic class and family structures.
Latest Presentations
Strengthening Family Partnerships to Promote Bilingual Pride at Home and in the Classroom (La Cosecha 2023 Annual Conference)
This workshop offers effective practices and strategies to build family partnership at your sites through an assets-based approach.
Centering Multilingual Families + Communities within the $4.1 Billion Community Schools Partnership Program (CABE 2023)
California is making a historic $4.1 billion investment through its Community Schools Partnership Program grants.
Discover Successful Approaches to Designated ELD that Responds to YOUR Students Needs (CABE 2023)
Need help planning “in response to” Designated ELD lessons?
Supporting Bilingualism in PreK & TK (CABE 2023)
Young children have the capacity to learn two languages, but this requires intentional planning.
The Power of Stories for Equity-Focused School Transformation (CABE 2023)
Our stories, nuestros testimonios, shift hearts and minds, offering critical examples that inspire, spark action, and transform – even in times of uncertainty or challenge.
Testimonios: How Powerful Stories Transform Dual Language Learning Communities (CABE 2023)
In dual language we are tasked not only with the pedagogy of biliteracy, but with nurturing our students and our own intersectional identities, our languages, cultures, races/ ethnicities and more.