Here’s your daily reminder that language maintenance (or growth!) is resistance. Saber es poder.

I hope you all remember this concern for the emotional welfare of migrant and first gen kids when things are better. It’s not too late to start again what was started in 2016, even if you lost momentum.

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

Read our op-ed here ⤵️

1972 Cat Stevens is subbing in my school today.

Overhearing a lot of criticism of our new President’s policies from my students who were supportive of his election. 🤔 some say they didn’t think he would follow through and I don’t understand.

The super wealthy keep playing with us to gain and hold power & now they’re not even hiding it. Philly arena and tik tok ban were all just power plays at our expense.

while you’re listening to Dtmf, read up on what’s happen if in Cotui, DR right now.

I’m starting to think no one saw ‘El Ultimo Puertorriqueño’. 🤷🏼‍♀️ youtube.com/playlist?lis...

dreaming of a day when my students won't have to hustle, scrape, and beg to create a facsimile of something they should have always had.

How can we deny any student, in any educational setting, the opportunity to leverage their full linguistic repertoire? If we don’t fully understand #translanguaging, let’s get more comfortable with it! The students we serve deserve it!

6/23: Still wondering why it’s so great for American- born monolinguals to become bilingual but if you speak a language other than English it’s not useful or helpful and you should just forget about it.

Does the wife of the president of Brazil have a fan club? I want to join.

1/22: In my career I have seen schools shut down for a few days to a few weeks for flooding, hurricanes, blizzards, lice infestations, norovirus, and flus. No one complained - safety was a priority. Is the fear that it might extend? No one wants that. Literally no one.

4/22: I wish people in educational administration really understood the value of language learning when it comes to languages other than English- specifically heritage language learning and native language classes. They’re more than enrichment.

5/22: The best thing about chaperoning prom is seeing students feel beautiful and set aside everything for a few hours to just let loose and have fun together. Nothing more restorative than a dance off circle at prom.

From 5/22: Linguistic racism in schools looks like creating English only spaces and calling it rigor and considering 1st language supports a crutch. Also, making language arts classes “X language only” spaces. That’s one way to create a power struggle within the brains of children.

Today I read a post with advice to get your Bluesky going that said to post your top 10 tweets from the other place. I guess that means my posts with 6 likes lol. It’s like a time capsule.

I 💛 public school teachers, but we can also do better. Know who you teach. Know what you teach. Know how to teach. Care. Grow. Read. Research. Do no harm to students/communities. Decolonize your mind and your practice. Facilitate learning, de-center yourself in that process.