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I heard you speak at a workshop I attended and you were amazing. I knew when you wrote this it would be a beautiful story. I have used your wonderfully illustrated book as a read a loud to my class to every year to commerate 911...We must NEVER forget
"We are willing to move for that advancement in our jobs" No one in Latam would do that, and if they did, they'd find a way to be there every Sunday for the family meal
Hearing this woman speak warms my heart. She gets it! I made the move from teaching Spanish after 7.5 years to becoming an ELL (English Language Learner) teacher this year. I now serve in a school with a study body count of 800 of which 90% of those students are Hispanic and mostly Spanish-speaking. And while my EL students adore me, and I love being able to use my language skills to help struggling students, it has caused the teacher who I co-teach with to become very jealous and envious. It has gotten so bad that she's outright told me not to translate even while knowing full well that multiple students did not understand English. I say that to say this, while most teachers almost always have teams and departments that they are a part of, ELL/ ESOL teachers are oftentimes working alone or with a (cruel) core content teacher. Please check in on them if they appear to be unwell. Although my students would run up to give me hugs and strike up conversations with me in the hallways, the co-teacher I worked with hated it and did everything in her power to bring forth my downfall. And while enduring her personal attacks was nothing fun, I completely drew the line when she started telling me to stop speaking to them in Spanish. Language services are a FEDERAL right that EL students are warranted. Nonetheless, I am aware that everything happens for a reason and have applied to become the EL Compliance Coach within my district. Working alongside this nightmare of a co-teacher has in many ways actually been for my good although she intended to harm me. But that is how God works and I look forward to hearing some good news soon.
Dear Dr. Hakuta, My name's Pirun s.. It is to nice to remember and found you on the internet. The last time I was listening to you as assistant professor at the Bilingual Conference in Chicago in early 90s. I'm 72 this year and tried to think back during actively involved in annual ML conferences. And I'm still tutoring Cambodian adults bilingual learners Civics and government. This is one of the reason listening to our former Bilingual Conference presenters as you, Dr. Samuel Betances, Dr. Jim Cummins just to name a few. Are you still in contact with them lately? Wishing you the best health!
I randomly came across an article that the school wrote about the Mixtec language and as someone who speaks Mixteco I think it’s so beautiful that this school acknowledged the students and their families to provide a better educational experience for them. It’s really amazing to see that this video is 7 years old as I struggled immensely when I began going to school because I was one of the very few kids who only spoke Mixteco and I was put into years of ELD because the school assumed I just had learning difficulties. I commend the school for recognizing the barrier that existed for those students
This is so, so beautiful. I can picture the child. She is spinning around, dancing, shining with light. Signed, a (native american!) teacher in training.
sry he is a dane know that if the german hurt the king in any way every dane would revolt have you ever heard of die dumen dane i can say to you in any point of history u will find a dane involwed its sic but u wil its itsy bistsy viking born realm where we stil teach equalety and no damn fear ask questions dont fear the answear and melchior and the jews in denmark was danish and none touch what we dont alow u to and if danes consider u a brother they will die before u the king aka queen are like oure danebrog nothing u can ever touch if you attach thise two things its like u fucked my litle sister and here comes big brother
Very meaningful concept. A person's name is so important and we need to be more respectful in treating each student with the utmost respect. The very least we can do it to correctly pronounce their name.
