Tove Skutnabb-Kangas wrote in 1989: "Especially in relation to small children, it is close to criminal, real psychological torture, to use monolingual teachers who do not understand what the child has to say in her mother tongue" (p. 55). #literacies

17 in my country. And more charters than you can throw a stick at. It’s so hard! There’s no continuity. And I don’t know that a single district, which is floated every decade or so, is a good answer. Some districts are great at language support, community, admin, others aren’t. #literacies

I wish I could have more input on which classrooms my sts were in so that they were seeing this kind of student-centered resistance. I fear too often they see compliance, even when the teachers build strong rapport. There are many hard things in Texas now, this among them #literacies

There was a Polish school in the neighborhood where I taught. Sts graduated with a certificate in Polish language, culture, and history. It was amazing, and unsurprising, to see how the skills they learned there complimented their text analysis skills in, say, AP Lit. #literacies

Thank you for hosting, Dr. González Ybarra, and for being our newest Communications Chair! 💖 #literacies

Thank you to the W & L SIG Graduate Student Board, and the Bluesky team in particular, for continuing to build community in our SIG! #literacies

Answering this question in Texas is pretty awful. With such a rich linguistic history, and San Antonio being a locus of refugee resettlement in years past, this place is amazing. And most local districts closed their newcomer campuses this year. Teachers are scared. Silence reigns. #literacies

Youth are constantly teaching us about the nuances in language! They truly are our linguistic experts #literacies

Thank you for joining tonight! We hope to see you for our October #literacies chat!

I taught in a Catholic all-girls school in Chicago and had so many diaspora students with lots of different Spanishes. I credit my sts for helping me learn about those differences and understand the nuances. My only previous learning was my aunt’s Catalonian-inspired Cuban Spanish. #literacies

A6: I am really looking forward to learning from what everyone shares. For me, I try to think about what I can do to dedicate energy to long-term, systemic changes as well as smaller scale, short-term changes. (1/2) #literacies

A6: This looks like policy advocacy and review as well as reaching out to and sharing multilingual teaching resources and volunteering with the local educators in the surrounding districts. I am always trying to look for opportunities to do both. (2/2) #literacies

A6: One way I've been thinking about addressing these issues is through partnerships with Indigenous teachers in Mexico. I wonder how we can re-think Latinx multilingual education in the U.S. by working alongside Indigenous educators to transform education for our students? #literacies

My mother got rid of her southern accent within months of going north for college. It didn’t impact me, really, but it is so real and sad, and angering, that almost 60 years later the stigma is still there.

I’ll stand y’all to the end of time, though.

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A5 1/2: I have seen teachers (even language specialists!) with very flattened perceptions of families' languages. I think it’s so important to learn about families’ languages because each family can have varied repertoires made up of colonial, regional, and ethnic-specific languages. #literacies

A4 1/2: In my time as an ESOL teacher, I worked with students who Indigenous and minoritized languages from Mexico, Guatemala, Nepal, Ethiopia, the DRC, and Afghanistan. In particular, one student corrected my assumption they only spoke Spanish. #literacies

A3 3/3: I’m incredibly concerned by the way we limit the brilliance of multilingual children in English-dominated education system because like Otheguy et al. (2015), this form of education only allows students to use half (or even less!) of their linguistic repertoire in learning. #literacies

A5: I’m really curious to read others’ ideas here, but I think we can start with us as teachers inquiring into our students’ and families’ language practices and inviting students to use and share their indigenous languages in the classroom. #Literacies

Q6: How can we work with educators and community members across borders to re-imagine multilingual education for multilingual students? #literacies

Q6 coming up in 1 min… #literacies