About the BCAIP Project

Biliteracy and Content Area Integrated Preparation (or BCAIP) is a five-year, 2.9 million grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of English Language Acquisition National Professional Development Program from 2021-2026. 

BCAIP brings together preservice teachers, in-service mentor teachers, and university teacher educators in solidarity to strengthen secondary teacher preparation and family engagement, and to support TK-12 multilingual learner bi/literacy development and content-area learning. 

Project Goals and Activities

1. Strengthen how secondary preservice teachers are prepared to support multilingual learners’ bi/literacy in the content areas through redesigned content methods and language/literacy courses

2. Strengthen the mentorship of preservice teachers in support of multilingual learners’ bi/literacy in the content areas through ongoing professional learning for mentor teachers

3. Promote family literacy engagement through the Language and Literacies Learning Lab (4L)

Key Project Personnel 

Sonoma State

Edward Lyon (Project Director/Principal Investigator)

Rhianna Casesa (Co-Principal Investigator)

Kelly Estada (Co-Principal Investigator)

Caroline Spurgin (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

Fawn Canady

Nancy Case Rico

Rajeev Virmani

Cal State East Bay 

Lyn Scott (Co-Principal Investigator)

Julie McNamara

Michele Korb

Mary Soto

San Diego State University

Saúl Maldonado (Co Principal Investigator)

External Evaluator

Anne Gurnee