¡Viva ser bilingüe!
A free newsletter for Dual Language Immersion educators. Published twice weekly Sunday and Thursday.Empowering Dual Language Immersion educators with best practices, relevant research, classroom tips, and fun ideas that will inspire you into, through and beyond your teaching week.
¡Viva ser bilingüe!
June 5, 2025 Thursday Edition Empowering Dual Language Immersion educators with best practices, relevant research, classroom tips, and fun ideas that will inspire you into, through and beyond your teaching week. ¡Adios to the 2024-2025 School Year! ¡Felicidades! We've reached the end of the 2024-2025 school year! You have worked long hours, planned hundreds of lessons, and left your mark on another group of students in two languages! Now it's time to hopefully sleep in or at least have slower...
¡Viva ser bilingüe!
May 22, 2025 Thursday Edition Empowering Dual Language Immersion educators with best practices, relevant research, classroom tips, and fun ideas that will inspire you into, through and beyond your teaching week. Our Craft A Time to Reflect Last Thursday, I shared a few ideas on reflecting on our DLI programs. It's the end of the school year, and I hope DLI teams are given time by their administrators, for example, during a staff meeting, to reflect on the successes and needs of their DLI...
¡Viva ser bilingüe!
May 15, 2025 Thursday Edition Empowering Dual Language Immersion educators with best practices, relevant research, classroom tips, and fun ideas that will inspire you into, through and beyond your teaching week. Our Craft Language Arts vs World Language In Dual Language Immersion programs, language arts is taught in English and a target language from the start of the program. When a district is ready to expand its DLI program to the secondary level, namely middle school, the secondary Spanish...
¡Viva ser bilingüe!
April 24, 2025 Thursday Edition Empowering Dual Language Immersion educators with best practices, relevant research, classroom tips, and fun ideas that will inspire you into, through and beyond your teaching week. Our Craft Everyone loves music. Adults love music, children love music, and I even think my dog loves it when I play music while cooking. It seemed natural for me to incorporate music as a daily routine in my kindergarten classroom, where most students didn't speak the target...
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April 10, 2025 Thursday Edition Empowering Dual Language Immersion educators with best practices, relevant research, classroom tips, and fun ideas that will inspire you into, through and beyond your teaching week. Our Craft Language Learning Through Poetry Teaching poetry to students who are learning a new language may seem like an ambitious endeavor. Poetry can be complex, rich with metaphor, and layered in meaning. Yet, these very characteristics make it an ideal vehicle for language...
VSB Thursday Edition
April 3, 2025 Thursday Edition Empowering Dual Language Immersion educators with best practices, relevant research, classroom tips, and fun ideas that will inspire you into, through and beyond your teaching week. Our Craft At last week's CABE conference, I presented on oral language development and the need to develop social language along with academic language. How do I motivate my students to use their new/less dominant language? It's important to understand what motivates students. I...
¡Viva ser bilingüe!
March 6, 2025 Thursday Edition Empowering Dual Language Immersion educators with best practices, relevant research, classroom tips, and fun ideas that will inspire you into, through and beyond your teaching week. Our Craft In our DLI programs, there are predominately two program models: 90/10 and 50/50. The 90/10 and 50/50 DLI program models approach the trajectory of bilingualism in different ways. 90/10 spend the early grades developing literacy in the target language, while 50/50 programs...