In this article, we report findings from a yearlong design research project that worked to leverage the language brokering skills of Latina/Latino middle school youth in an urban school setting. We began the project by asking seventh-grade students to talk about the many languages they speak in their daily lives. Throughout the project, their…

This piece describes an extended workshop in which reading, writing, listening, and speaking were used to build and sustain a feminist ecology intended to open up access to future lives in science for ethnically and linguistically diverse girls in an urban secondary school. The girls in the description above participated in a project called Girls…