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Bilingual Stories, Lasting Questions The stories created through the Fable Writing Project demonstrate how children’s literature can become a powerful tool for connecting personal experience, cultural knowledge, and enduring life lessons. Building on that work, The Little Butterfly’s Reflection / El espejo de la pequeña mariposa (a bilingual story) and El último verano con Abuelita: Los dichos que me enseñó offer complementary narratives centered on self-discovery, friendship, family, language, memory, and cultural continuity. Bilingual Frontera

#bilingual #Bilingualism and the creative process #DOE publication series

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Cuéntame más fábulas: Fábulas escritas por niños para los niños

Cuéntame más fábulas Cuéntame más fábulas is a second volume of children’s original fables. Teachers, students and university researchers collaborated to create this publication. CuentameMasFabulasDownload

Cuéntame una fábula: Fábulas escritas por niños para los niños

Our publication, Cuéntame una fábula (1997) includes original fables written by children in Houston ISD. The La Nueva Fábula writing project involved the collaboration between the students, their teachers, and university researchers. CuentameUnafabulaDownload

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Volume Four: Discovering Our Experiences: Studies in Bilingual/ESL Education

Volume 4, Critical Knowledge Beyond the School: Teachers as The-Ones-Who-Learn was published in the Fall 1997. The volume features the work of our members of the Teacher Research Collaborative. The group of twelve includes school teachers, principals, as well as the university researchers. DOE_1997Download

Volume Three: Discovering Our Experiences: Studies in Bilingual/ESL Education

Our third volume, Transforming Ourselves Through the Power of Mediated Instruction (Fall 1996), focuses on teachers’ transformational process in becoming critical. Included are articles written by Sugar Martínez and an interview with Cathy Amanti, co-author of articles on the Funds of Knowledge for Teaching. DOE_1996Download

Volume Two: Discovering Our Experiences: Studies in Bilingual/ESL Education

Volume two, Reflective Practice for Teacher Change was published in the Spring 1995. The role of teacher in Bilingual/ESL is the primary focus in each article. Co-editor Lockey Kirksey creates a unique layout and design, and guest authors and colleagues, Dr. Kip Téllez and Beti Leone offer their unique perspectives on teachers as researchers. DOE_1995Download

Volume One: Discovering Our Experiences: Studies in Bilingual/ESL

Our initial volume, Leadership for Change in Bilingual/ESL Education focuses on leadership and innovation. Seven articles focus on reflective practices from the perspectives school principals, state agency directors, and university researchers. DOE_1993Download

The Children Before Us: Recovering Their Memories and Raising Their Voices

Today’s political controversy over the education of Texas’ children is as intricate and contentious as it has been since 1845. With the myriads of news and media outlets, we are routinely challenged with sorting out the facts from opinions. But to make sense of the arguments and tasks at hand, we can only infer by conducting a deep dive to examine the historically significant developments from…

Becoming Bilingual: What Schools Finally Got Right About Language Learning

Bilingualism is like living in two worlds. In this essay, I review some of the significant advances in language and culture, teaching and learning for young students.

Bilingualism encompasses an examination of both language and culture. To fully appreciate the remarkable strides made in the fields of linguistics and anthropology over the past century, it is helpful to review some key milestones. In the 1920s, the prevailing view of how children acquired language centered primarily on imitation and repetition, with only limited attention given to the role of…

#Bilingualism and the creative process #teaching

An Unbroken Chain: Toward an Understanding of the Effects of Segregation on our Society

Artificial intelligence (AI) has produced abilities to research important and critical issues. This article discusses this and more.

Most of us have a pretty good understanding of segregation and how it differs from integration. Among the most significant events in our history of public education is the landmark SCOTUS, 1954 decision of Brown v. Board of Education, filed under the plaintiff’s name, Linda Brown, an African American student in Topeka, Kansas. The case, brilliantly argued by Thurgood Marshall and others, puts to…

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Examining Bilingual Education Programs for Their Effects on English Language Learners

This article is a result of critical discourse analysis research and the accumulation of many years as a English Language Learner and educator - in the classroom and the university,

It’s crucial to understand why and how the Texas Education Agency makes available bilingual education programs for students whose primary language is not English. Although many different languages are represented among students, especially in highly populated urban and metro areas, most students in this subgroup, well over 80 percent, speak Spanish as their primary language. In this article I…

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Blaming the Children: How Texas Schools Work Against English Language Learners

In this article, I explore the ways in which Texas schools contribute to the achievement failure of English Language Learners, and how often they internalize this blame.

In this five-part article, I explore the ways in which Texas schools contribute to the achievement failure of English Language Learners (ELs) and how students often internalize this blame. I discuss the systemic barriers and biases that ELs face in the education system and argue for a more equitable and supportive approach to ensure their academic success. Toward an Understanding of Inequality…

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#Discrimination Against Latinos in Texas #School Inequality #Texas School Lawsuit

Two Takeaways From This Election cycle: A Teacher Educator’s Perspective

In my line of work as a teacher educator at a local university I often find the need to create a new spin on decades-long, doggedly-persistent problems that address school failure among minority students. My students will soon become part of the next generation of teachers, and old, tired theoretical explanations lack the power of persuasion. As the election cycle finally draws to an end, certain…

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Texas School Lawsuit Argues for Major Changes, But Misses an Important Target

This article provides a summary of recent newspaper reports regarding a lawsuit filed by school districts against the state of Texas, with Education Commissioner Mike Morath named as the defendant. The lawsuit, initiated by various school districts in the Fall of 2023, calls for a halt to the release of the A-F accountability ratings, citing various reasons for their disapproval. The plaintiffs’…

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Reclaiming Dignity and Resilience: The Journey of Maya Women Through War and Healing

The history of the Women’s Movement in Guatemala traces a multifaceted trajectory encompassing a diverse range of ideologies and agendas that mirror the varied lived experiences of women across social, cultural, and economic spheres. Throughout the 36-year Internal Armed Conflict (1960-1996), numerous women played pivotal roles in the war, akin to their counterparts in the armed conflicts of El…

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#Guatemalan Indigenous Women #Sepur Zarco case #Women in the guerrillas in Central America

'We Are the revolution:' The Nicaraguan Women's Movement Taking Charge

My latest work in solidarity with the Nicaraguan feminists.

“The revolution was what happened, but when we started to understand and describe it, and live in its reality, we realized that as women we were and we are the revolution.” Post-revolution Nicaragua in the 1980s ushered in an avalanche of ideas on the reconstruction of the “new” society. After four decades of the Somoza dictatorship (1937-1979), women had emerged with a progressive feminist…

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