Monolingual language ideologies marginalize the language resources of multilingual students in English-dominant classrooms. A teacher shares her experience of learning to leverage kindergarten students' full linguistic repertoires. Translanguaging pedagogies allowed children to demonstrate their linguistic knowledge, provide authentic accounts of…

With U.S. classrooms increasingly characterized by linguistic diversity, policies mandating teacher training around English learning have proliferated. Recent federal oversight prompted Massachusetts to implement an initiative to endorse its 70,000+ teachers in Sheltered English Immersion (SEI). While policy research has productively emphasized…

Few studies have investigated the discourses and ideologies around parents' enrollment decisions in Chinese-English immersion contexts, and how these discourses and ideologies affect their involvement with their children' bi/multilingual development. Conducted in a K-5 50/50 one-way Mandarin immersion school, this paper focuses on ethnographic…