This webinar discusses the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, how its educational requirements may be impacting application rates, and recommendations for overcoming the education-success challenges that key subgroups of DACA-DREAM youth face.
The number and percentage of young immigrants and dual language learners have increased and continue to increase in every state across the country. Children of different immigrant backgrounds participate in pre-K to different degrees.
This study reports on the effects of the Pathway Project, a professional development intervention aimed at supporting the academic language development of English Learners (ELs).
Considering a Latin@ fifth-grade dual-language classroom (Spanish/English) as a community of practice, this paper explores how a bilingual teacher and her bilingual students, as members of such community, utilize translanguaging (GarcA-a, 2009) as a learning and teaching tool in social studies and s
Using examples from their work with early childhood teachers, the authors discuss the significance of interactive word walls for vocabulary development in early childhood Spanish/English dual language classrooms.
Increasing school segregation is leaving Dual Immersion programs without sufficient numbers of native English speakers to constitute a traditional Dual Immersion model.