In schools across the country, educators are serving more and more multilingual students and families. This book equips you with the considerations, tools, and resources you need as you fight for equity and advocate for those you serve.
Author Carly Spina unpacks a variety of approaches and lenses, including multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) structures, family engagement, centering student experiences, and nurturing and cultivating a multilingual mindset throughout school classrooms and communities. Each chapter provides practical tools, tips, and vignettes to help you go beyond the why to take action. Throughout the book, you will be called to Question, Equip, and Act!
As you work through the book, youll be inspired to move your systems forward on your equity journey for multilingual students. Get ready to Ignite Real Change!
This book provides tools and resources for multilingual learners, including MTSS structures, family engagement, centering student experiences, and nurturing and cultivating a multilingual mindset throughout school communities.
1. Introduction: Vision of Equity and Advocacy for Multilingual
Learners;
2. Cultivating Multilingual Mindsets across a School Community;
3.
Affirming and Honoring the Linguistic Identities of Our Students;
4. Ensuring
Equity and Access for Multilingual Learners at Tier 1;
5. Interrupting
Inequitable MTSS Tiered Interventions and Problem-Solving Structures;
6.
Dismantling Barriers for Advanced, Gifted, Enrichment Access;
7. Dismantling
Oppressive Family Engagement Practices and Designing Equitable Supports;
8.
Upholding our Commitments to Equity for Multilingual Learners and Families
Carly Spina has almost two decades of experience in multilingual education, including her service as an EL teacher, a third-grade bilingual classroom teacher, and a district-wide multilingual instructional coach. She is currently a multilingual education specialist at the Illinois Resource Center. Her first book, Moving Beyond for Multilingual Learners, was a 2023 Equity in Excellence Award Winner. She is on most social media platforms, and you can find her at @MrsSpinasClass.
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