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Dual Language Immersion Programs
Teacher Preparation
February 5, 2024

Aspiring bilingual teachers gain new perspectives by crossing the border

San Diego State's Dual Language & English Learner Education department requires students in the credential program to visit schools in Tijuana.

Zaidee Stavely
Bilingual Education
June 12, 2023

How well do dual-immersion programs serve English learners?

Dual-immersion programs sometimes take longer to get students proficient in English, but those students often catch up with or surpass English programs over time.

Zaidee Stavely
Podcast
February 16, 2023

How a Hmong immersion program revitalizes language and cross-cultural understanding

A Hmong-English dual language immersion program in Fresno Unified helps children learn their grandparents' language and culture.

EdSource staff
Bilingual Education
February 13, 2023

Hmong is a ‘dying’ language – but it’s being preserved at this Fresno school

Many children of Hmong immigrants do not know their parents' native language well. The community does not have a separate nation in Southeast Asia.

Ashleigh Panoo
Bilingual Education
August 22, 2022

Frustration after bilingual education bill dies in State Assembly

The bill would have established a program to offer grants of up to $750,000 to expand or establish dual-language immersion programs.

Zaidee Stavely
English Learners
January 24, 2022

How Congress can help students learning English

Report says Congress should triple federal funding for English learners and increase grants for bilingual teacher training and preschool.

Zaidee Stavely
English Learners
December 20, 2021

How TK can help students learning English as a second language

Advocates say the expansion of transitional kindergarten is an opportunity to offer high-quality preschool to more children who speak a language other than English at home.

Zaidee Stavely
Bilingual Education
June 16, 2021

Why training California bilingual teachers just got harder

A program that prepares bilingual teachers for dual-language classrooms in California is set to end this month, potentially worsening a shortage.

Zaidee Stavely And Betty Márquez Rosales
Bilingual Education
June 1, 2021

California bilingual programs ready to grow after slowing during pandemic

Some school districts were forced to pause their expansion plans for new dual language immersion programs due to the pandemic.

Zaidee Stavely And Betty Márquez Rosales
Bilingual Education
November 6, 2020

How California teachers are making bilingual education work online

With most instruction now remote and with less class time, students don’t spend as much time exposed to their new language.

Zaidee Stavely
English Learners
October 30, 2018

Building relationships with preschool parents, one conversation at a time

To help preschoolers who are learning to speak in more than one language, one California school district is focusing on parent engagement through in-person interviews that are boosting parent participation in class activities.

Ashley Hopkinson
Administrators
March 22, 2018

First time superintendent, in just his second year, faces demands to quickly improve student learning

Matthew Duffy said his primary goals are raising student achievement and reducing teacher turnover.

Theresa Harrington
English Learners
August 24, 2017

Voter initiative opens door to expansion of popular dual language immersion programs

The new law that governs language instruction in California is making way for districts to expand bilingual programs.

Ashley Hopkinson
English Learners
August 21, 2017

Spanish-speaking teachers getting special training to meet California's demand for more bilingual teachers

As districts expand bilingual programs, they're ramping up training so teachers who speak Spanish can teach Common Core and standards for English learners.

Theresa Harrington
Legislation
January 6, 2017

A new era for bilingual education: explaining California's Proposition 58

The law reverses the English-only mandate voters passed in 1998.

Ashley Hopkinson