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The Importance of Arts Education

Yesterday, Monday, April 15, we celebrated World Art Day, a day established to promote the development, dissemination and promotion of art in all its forms. Art fosters creativity, innovation and cultural diversity for all peoples of the world, as well as cultural and knowledge exchange between different countries. Therefore, on this World Art Day, UNESCO […]

Is The Science of Reading enough for emergent bilinguals?

A few weeks ago we blogged about The Science of Reading. This body of research explores how to develop good reading and writing skills from an early age for better outcomes in students’ academic development. In the classroom, The Science of Reading is used to understand how students learn to read and how to improve […]

World Autism Awareness Day

Surely you know someone with autism close to you, but you may not know it yet. Did you know that 1% of the population is on the autism spectrum? Look around you, at work, on public transport, at the gym, at the park, at school. Autism is a reality in our world, and it is […]

Constructing my Multilingual Perspective

For a while language was something that I didn’t understand because my entire environment was monolingual. English was the only language spoken at home, at school, and in my social life. Multilingualism was a privilege limited to those who had ethnic parents that taught them and what the Idaho public education system taught. I had […]

What is a linguistic repertoire and how can we leverage it in the classroom?

A linguistic repertoire refers to the set of vocabulary, expressions and grammatical structures that a person uses to express themselves. It is a term used in language teaching and bilingual education literature to refer to the resources and skills that learners draw from to communicate in a second language. A person’s linguistic repertoire is diverse, […]