This post celebrates/highlights the work that teachers are diligently doing to support students and families as schools remain closed.

Tips to help teachers and parents support immersion students while at home.

avoiding the binder graveyard

We work day-in and day-out with teachers and leaders to build and maintain a relentless commitment to boosting immersion language skills, but setbacks happen.

One of the “must haves” in your immersion recipe is dual language immersion-specific professional learning.

One of the foundational strategies we teach our addalingua partner teachers is “turn-and-talk.”

Rebecca offers 4 great ideas for helping ease parental concerns about their child’s English literacy development–even as they are acquiring literacy in Spanish.

You see, the spaces we create communicate what we value. Furthermore, values-informed design supports us in living out those values.

What is your approach to bi-literacy development?

We’re serious about helping our addalingua partner school administrators grow in their craft and lead their programs well.

We all want the best for our kids and for them to maintain as much language learning as possible, even when they’re away from their…

What about students who struggle in immersion education?

We take professional learning very seriously. So seriously that we have developed a five year professional learning and addalingua certification cycle for our partner teachers,…

Knowing what these skills are and how and when to introduce them in the classroom will impact everything from immersion program design to the instructional…

The addalingua 90-10 two-way immersion model was designed to serve students in linguistically diverse communities, where classrooms can include an equal mix of Spanish dominant and…