¡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.
The Thursday Edition
August 13, 2026 Thursday Edition Empowering DLI educators with best practices, relevant research, classroom tips, and fun ideas that will inspire you into, through and beyond your teaching week. OUR NORTH STAR Our Craft Sociocultural Competence One of the ways that we establish an inclusive environment is by creating a classroom space where students feel safe. Clear routines and procedures help are important for smooth operation of your instructional day, however for beginning level language...
¡Viva ser bilingüe!
August 6, 2026 Thursday Edition Empowering DLI educators with best practices, relevant research, classroom tips, and fun ideas that will inspire you into, through and beyond your teaching week. OUR NORTH STAR Our Craft Sociocultural Competence In DLI programs, our third pillar is more than holidays, food, and celebrations that represent the culture of the target language. While learning about the culture of the target language is valuable, sociocultural competence calls DLI teache rs to pay...
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July 30, 2026 Thursday Edition Empowering DLI educators with best practices, relevant research, classroom tips, and fun ideas that will inspire you into, through and beyond your teaching week. ¡BIENVENIDOS! WELCOME! ¡VIVA SER BILINGÜE IS BACK! WELCOME to ¡Viva ser bilingüe! This newsletter is for you, the DLI teacher. It is purposefully designed to be a quick read that offers valuable content so you feel confident speaking about DLI principles, and strategies and activities that work in the...
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September 25, 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 Let's Talk About... The Reading Screener for Dual Language Immersion programs In recent weeks I've received several calls and emails asking: How do we implement the Reading Screener in our DLI Programs? The purpose of the reading screener in grades K-2 (in some states...
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September 18, 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. Sociocultural competence refers to the ability to effectively interact and communicate with people from diverse cultural backgrounds, understanding their norms, values, and perspectives Sociocultural Competence, one of the foundational pillars of DLI programs, includes creating...
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August 28, 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 As is tradition, we begin the new school year focused on our North Star: The Pillars of Dual Language Immersion Education: Bilingualism & Biliteracy across content areas, Academic Proficiency in Two Languages and Sociocultural Competence, all supported by Critical...
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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...