“I just overburdened my brain!” A student just exclaimed this in response to our conversation about The Giver by @LoisLowryWriter #MiddleSchool#EnglishLanguageLearner
ALT Purple background with text that says: 3 strategies to leverage students' language assets
-Empower students with academic language
-Implement culturally sustaining pedagogy
-Provide opportunities for discourse
ALT Dark blue background with green summits in the bottom right corner with a young girl with classes. Text says: Beyond cognates: Leveraging multilingual capital
-Encourage and promote metabilingual awareness
-Bring cross-linguistic connections to the forefront
-Protect time for learning in non-english languages
ALT Orange gradient background with a gray bean character from Ellevation Math Primers with the quote, "When they see the vocabulary in the Primer, in't in context, so now they know what is going on in class...." by Christina Wiseman, ESL lead teacher