For school based and community educators, teaching is a political act (hooks, 1994). Someone's culture is being taught through what is believed, valued, expected, praised and what is being eliminated, devalued, hidden, or disciplined. Often, these decisions about what is taught explicitly--or implicitly--are deeply tied to dominant cultures even if educators are unaware of it. For educators seeking to create culturally relevant, responsive, revitalizing, and sustaining classrooms, that means learning about asset or resource based pedagogies. New to these pedagogies? Print the "cheat sheet" below and use the recommended readings to learn more. 

Dual Language Immersion Programs in Georgia

Explore solutions to problems of practice that are already working in the state. For example, dual language immersion programs currently sustain heritage languages while growing emergent bi/multilingual learners. Can you advocate for a dual language immersion program at your school, county, or organization?

Grow your language learning and language experiences by exploring media that is not in your heritage language, learning common phrases in languages spoken by your learners, neighbors, and other community members, or downloading free translation apps like Google Translate, Microsoft Translate, or Mango's ASL course (available via the public library system) to take on some of the communicative burden.