Welcome to my collection of resources, experiences, and advice for launching and growing a quality two-way immersion bilingual program. I am deeply committed to bilingualism and biliteracy for every child and firmly believe that this approach is key for preparing traditionally underserved English Language Learners for short and long term academic, cognitive, and sociocultural success. My personal mission as an educator is to do everything I can to close the achievement gap and to provide every student with an excellent college prep education--particularly ELLs. If you're looking to launch something similar, or simply want ideas and resources for your bilingual classroom, I want to help in any way I can!

Monday, December 21, 2009

Media Spotlight

I think I forgot to mention that back near the beginning of the school year, our little local Mission newspaper, The Progress Times, featured our school's dual language launch on their front page; click here to read the article. The local district, Mission CISD, has apparently developed a definite distaste for this new little spirited charter school that is IDEA Academy Mission (inevitable when a new kid moves in down the block), and a few people here and there have dubbed our featured program a "producto inflado" (inflated product), meaning that it looks and sounds better than it is. Well...come judge for yourselves y'all. It's very hard NOT to be impressed with what my teachers have done with our two-way immersion launch. And this is just the beginning!

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