Supporting heritage learners every step of the way.💡

Wayside programs build bilingualism, biliteracy, and Seal of Biliteracy skills through authentic content and meaningful practice. 🌎

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#HeritageLearners #Biliteracy

Colorado lawmakers plan expansion of high school biliteracy endorsement Of the state’s 179 public school districts, only 55 offer a seal of biliteracy to high school students.

Colorado lawmakers plan expansion of high school biliteracy endorsement: https://bit.ly/4boK3yb | Chalkbeat (2/5/26) | By Jason Gonzales
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#Colorado #Lawmakers #Biliteracy #Bilingual #Government #Endorsement #Diploma #DepartmentOfEducation #Education #Language #Law

From Paper to Power Linda Egnatz introduces a language credential that drives enrollment, engagement, and career advancement In a world where academic records, job applications, and professional networking all happen onl...

From Paper to Power languagemagazine.com/2026/03/02/f...
Linda Egnatz introduces a language credential that drives #enrollment, engagement, and #career advancement
#biliteracy #assessment

Central Unified Board commits to exploring Dual Language programs in Spanish and Punjabi In January, the Board of Trustees affirmed its commitment to developing a Dual Language Bilingual Education program in Spanish and Punjabi.

Central Unified School District is exploring Dual Language programs in Spanish & Punjabi — a step toward stronger support for multilingual learners and expanded opportunities for biliteracy in California schools.

Read more: abc30.com/post/central...

#MultilingualEd #DualLanguage #Biliteracy

Learn how one Santa Fe High School graduate earned the #California State Seal of #Biliteracy in French, and a district gold medal in Spanish.

We are proud to highlight students like Oswaldo in our ongoing #VoicesOfBiliteracy series.

Read more: californianstogether.org/voices-of-bi...

We’re #JaguarProud of our 24 students who earned the Arkansas Seal of Biliteracy! DYK? Swahili was added this fall! 🌍✨ #LISAacademy #Biliteracy

Who earns the State Seal of #Biliteracy? We kick off our blog series, Voices of Biliteracy, on seal recipients with a profile of a student whose love of language started at home and continued into her dual immersion program. #VoicesOfBiliteracy

Learn more: californianstogether.org/voices-of-bi...

Every #literacy policy should be a #biliteracy policy. #Biliteracy ensures #MultilingualLearners can build community bonds and thrive in the global #workforce. #FamilyLiteracyMonth

Hear from teachers about their experiences implementing misaligned policy: californianstogether.org/resource/voi...

State Seal of Biliteracy - Multilingual Learners (CA Dept of Education) Information about the California State Seal of Biliteracy program and its requirements for students, parents, and educators.

CA awarded 75,000+ State Seals of Biliteracy in 87 languages — its highest number ever! 🌎

Participation and English learner representation are both up. Explore the data or learn how to get involved at the CDE State Seal of Biliteracy page: www.cde.ca.gov/sp/ml/sealof...

#Biliteracy #Education #CA

Assessing Biliteracy: Understanding Student Performance When Learning in Two Languages - edWeb Explore cutting-edge research on biliteracy development, drawing on findings from the Biliteracy Trajectories Project to reframe how we interpret student assessment data.

Check out this free webinar, "Assessing Biliteracy: Understanding Student Performance When Learning in Two Languages," offered on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT home.edweb.net/webinar/clrt... #Biliteracy

Calling All Bilingual Changemakers Over the last three decades, the field of education in the US has experienced a growing demand for dual language and biliteracy programs. The dissemination of research that highlights the cognitive, s...

Calling All #Bilingual Changemakers languagemagazine.com/2025/07/02/c... Rubí Flores explains why your #language skills are needed in #DualLanguage and #Biliteracy classrooms

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🚨 92% of #emergentbilingualstudents in K–12 lack access to #DualLanguageEducation (DLE). Providing #emergentbilinguals with DLE that provides #biliteracy instruction that applies #ScienceofReading principles is ideal to help children thrive.

Learn more: cep.asu.edu/resources/Th...

📣 Literacy and Dual Language Learners in ECE

Join a webinar featuring researchers exploring how biliteracy and bilingual development shape early literacy—and what today’s policies mean for DLLs. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#DLL #Biliteracy #EarlyChildhood #BilingualEd #EduLeadership

Having fun with the word "FIN", which my son recognizes from his French books but in this scenario belonged to a shark! 🦈🔚
#biliteracy #translingualhumour
#digraphs #picturebooks #langsky

Summer Reading Resources: Challenges, Logs, Activity Calendars - Spanish Playground Summer reading program resources for the free online Spanish reading program from Spanish Playground. Logs, challenges, activities and tips for parents.

How are you encouraging families to engage in biliteracy this summer? Check out these Spanish language resources for summer reading: www.spanishplayground.net/summer-readi... #summerreading #biliteracy

A Better Way to Read Aloud Strategies that spark discussion, build knowledge, and deepen students’ connection to reading.

Read-alouds do more than build fluency—they grow bilingual & biliterate thinkers!
📚 Choose meaningful texts
🗣️ Practice for expression
💬 Make space for discussion
Language grows through connection.
#Biliteracy #MultilingualLearners #EdChat
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The Nebraska Department of Education and the Nebraska Seal of Biliteracy Advisory Committee are proud to announce that 269 Seals of Biliteracy have been awarded to 268 Nebraska students in the April round of 2025. For more details: education.ne.gov/press_release/… #biliteracy

M.A. Reading Education Rowan University is a Carnegie-classified national doctoral research institution dedicated to excellence in undergraduate and graduate education.

Did you know that you can count your ESL COGS courses towards an M.A. in Reading? Check it out! education.rowan.edu/academics/ma... #readingwithMLs #biliteracy

Unite for Literacy library Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages. Literacy is at the core of a healthy community, so we unite with partners to enable all families to read w...

Did you know that Unite for Literacy has an English Learner Collection? Check it out: www.uniteforliteracy.com/englishlearn... #biliteracy

I cannot wait to see you at FABE 2025 (Florida Association for Bilingual Education Conference) on April 5th! I will be presenting on my favorite topic: ORACY! Get ready for interaction and talk! Will you be there? Let's connect! #oracy #biliteracy

With the correct link! ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#literacyteachers #biliteracy

A brilliant issue! Read about fostering "healing biliteracies" in the classroom and nurturing "bilingual/biliterate pride" in Muñoz & Babino's article (Open Access): ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... #biliteracy #multilingualism #schools #lingsky #teachers #langsky #literacyteacher

When teachers come together & integrate language acquisition with language arts with social studies and science content...magic happens!

#biliteracy #languageacquisition #shelteredinstruction #duallanguage #teaching #learning #scienceofreading #multilingualism #teachers #professionallearning

Indiana Saves Seal of Biliteracy Program Under pressure from language learning advocates, Rep. Robert Behning, the Chairman of Indiana’s House Education Committee, has introduced an amendment to his own bill to remove the language that would...

Advocacy groups succeed in bill amendment @actfl.bsky.social #bilingual #biliteracy
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Cultivating how multilingual learners use language to make meaning of new learning can happen at word, sentence, and discourse levels.

Sentence patterning is a high leverage instructional scaffold to support syntactic awareness- an important strand of the reading rope!

#biliteracy

To teach bilingual children how to read, we must also understand how the bilingual reading brain works.

Always grateful to @jravina0904 & @ufsdtarrytowns for letting me lead the powerful session on enhancing biliteracy development.
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#bilingualbrain #biliteracy #SorforMLLs #educationalequity

Estoy nerviosa porque no he practicado mi español por un poco, y ahora necesito hacer un examen de interpretación en orden aplicar para una clase ヘ⁠（⁠。⁠□⁠°⁠）⁠ヘ
#biliteracy #spanish #learningspanish #interpretation

So often educational policy for reading is designed around monolingual outcomes. Teachers have to lead on the edge, putting them at risk in order to do the right thing for bilingual learners.

Full Article: californianstogether.org/wp-content/u...

#NCEL #biliteracy #educacionbilingue #duallanguage

Schools Are Graduating More Students With a Seal That Shows They're Multilingual All 50 states now allow students to earn a distinction on their diploma signaling their mastery of multiple languages.

The State Seal of #Biliteracy started in California as a movement to recognize #multilingualism as an asset. New numbers show incredible growth in the number of students receiving this award nationwide.

More from Education Week:

Schools Are Graduating More Students With a Seal That Shows They're Multilingual All 50 states now allow students to earn a distinction on their diploma signaling their mastery of multiple languages.

New Mexico is proud to lead the nation in awarding the Seal of Biliteracy—a distinction honoring students who are multilingual. This is just one way New Mexico is preparing our students for the global economy.

#biliteracy #nmeducation #multilingual