So proud to share this story about Project PUEBLO at UNLV. Watching teachers transform classrooms for multilingual students has been amazing. www.ktnv.com/news/unlv-pr...

State school finance reforms designed to close funding gaps between high- and low-income districts did not reduce racial and ethnic funding inequities and in some cases increased them, according to new research published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. www.aera.net/Newsroom/Sta...

CCSD Teachers, we are recruiting for Project PUEBLO—a 1-year accelerated M.Ed. in English Language Learning starting Fall 2025. -Earn your ELAD endorsement -Partial scholarship (covers 1/3 of tuition) -Apply by June 15, 2025 Apply or share w/a colleague! Flyer & info: tinyurl.com/54uu4sm7

If you have research dependent on these data here is my suggestion 1/N Big picture: Create a dataset of cell means (cells must be big enough to pass disclosure) - load these cell means into many, many tables & put through review -These cell means can then be used in OLS - which runs on means

Our College of Ed at UNLV is hiring for an asst. prof. position in early/elementary literacy! #acdademia #highereducation #studentpartnership #academic #academicjobs #jobs #education www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

The proportion of Nevada's emergent bilinguals (#ELLs) is double the national average. Yet here we are.... For more info: tinyurl.com/53nm5tzp #ccsd #nevada

Great to see Project PUEBLO get a shoutout at the Review Journal and the recognition of the need for dual language programs. www.reviewjournal.com/local/educat... #ccsd #duallanguage

In our 2-day third annual UNLV College of Education Project PUEBLO mini-conference event, 100 teacher leaders presented on ways they intend to advocate, shape policy, and build school capacity to enhance support for emergent bilinguals. @unlv.bsky.social

Post LAST sentence of LAST article: "In general, expanded financial investment in high-quality, affordable early care & education (ECE) that meets the needs of children & families from diverse backgrounds is essential to breaking down systemic barriers to equitable ECE access." tinyurl.com/yzhr66xz

Hot off the press! Colleagues & I conducted a nationwide multidimensional examination of early care & education access, revealing 3/4 of ECE centers were characterized by meeting 0 dimensions of access, suggesting a critical need for policy action to expand families' access. tinyurl.com/yzhr66xz

UNLV College of Education Zeiter Literacy Center is offering a Professional Development Series focused on supporting multilingual learners with or at risk for having learning disabilities. See more info below. To register:

It was great to be a part of today's conversation with @SenCortezMasto regarding her bill, Reaching English Learners Act, aiming to better fund teacher preparation programs focusing on emergent bilinguals. #ccsd

Interesting stats regarding Europeans' views of multilingualism. Wonder how we compare in the US 🤔

Percentage of US faculty within the ranks of Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor by race

To my fellow first-gen graduates.... #unlv

In our 2-day second annual @unlvcoe PUEBLO mini-conference event, 95 teacher leaders presented on ways they intend to advocate, shape policy, and build school capacity in the efforts to better support emergent bilinguals. Thankful for this partnership with @ClarkCountySch

Wonderful sharing our team's work, which highlighted elementary and secondary teachers' shifts toward a translanguaging-as-resource orientation in their conceptualizations of translanguaging, self-efficacy, and current practices . #AERA2024 @AERA_BerSig

Just found this relic hidden in an old resume portfolio. My name tag when I first interviewed to become a teacher in the Bronx as a NYC teaching fellow in 2006. 🥹 some of the best years #nycteachingfellow

Co-presented our study “Monolingual & multilingual in-service teachers’ conceptualization of translanguaging pedagogy in a teacher preparation program” at #AAAL2024 with the fab @DrSab_Sembiante

Excited our mixed-method study on translanguaging beliefs and practices in English-medium settings was accepted to #aera24! This study uniquely captures the perspectives of educators across grades and in varying content areas.

A true pleasure discussing & learning from teachers and fellow advocates of multilingual students on ways we could/should make students’ home languages more visible in policies & instruction, moving away from a monolingual/English-only lens. #nvedsummit23

Exciting 2 see #ProjectPUEBLO highlighted: @UNLVCoE's #ELL master's program focuses on importance of policy, advocacy, & leveraging emergent bilinguals' home languages ~300 #CCSD teachers will receive their ELAD endorsement to better support bilinguals

In day 2 of the inaugural PUEBLO mini-conference, teacher leaders presented on ways they intend to advocate, shape policy, and build school capacity in the efforts to better support emergent bilinguals.

In day 1 of the inaugural PUEBLO mini-conference, teacher leaders presented on ways they intend to advocate, shape policy, and build school capacity in the efforts to better support emergent bilinguals. Only 1/4 of our graduating first cohort is pictured. So proud of this group.

My family and I (including our 2 dogs) were included in our dear friend @jmenendezillu's illustrations in the upcoming children's book titled "Skyscraper Babies" How cool is that!

A joy to present our work #aera2023 with @DrSab_Sembiante & Catherine Restrepo. This study revealed how DLBE teachers engaged in sustainable #translanguaging pedagogy to protect the vulnerable language, Spanish, in show-and-tell.

Always wonderful to share our #multimodal research, this time focusing on narrative retells. #SRCD2023 #SRCD23 @DrSab_Sembiante

Excited to share new pub with @DrSab_Sembiante published in @rev_of_edu : “A review of the methodological characteristics of #vocabulary interventions for emergent bilinguals in preschool to sixth grade.” Access it here:

Excited 2 share our article led by @DrSab_Sembiante titled "Sustainable #translanguaging pedagogy in support of the vulnerable language: honoring children’s ways of ‘Showing’ and ‘Telling’ in early childhood #duallanguage #bilingualeducation" Free eprint:

Just published in Journal of #EarlyChildhood Literacy with @DrSab_Sembiante: "Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers’ transmodality in a dual language bilingual education preschool classroom" #multimodality #translanguaging #bilingual

Recognizing that Latines make up less than 5% of tenured faculty and under 6% of tenure-track faculty at doctoral institutions, 20 universities incl. #UNLV have committed to doubling the number of Latine PhD students and professors by 2030.

Excited to present "Multimodal Depth-of-Vocabulary Instruction: A cross-genre analysis of a preschool teacher's vocabulary instruction in Spanish read alouds" alongside @DrSab_Sembiante. Join us at 9:45am #AERA22 #BERSIG

One of my favorite people (Beth Harry) has published the 3rd edition of her groundbreaking ethnographic study, “Why are so many students of color in special education: Understanding race and disability in schools." Available this summer.

Received great news that @DrSab_Sembiante and I will be presenting our paper "Multimodal depth of vocabulary instruction: A cross-genre analysis of a preschool teacher's vocabulary instruction in Spanish read alouds" at #aera2022 this spring!

Our baby boy. Luca Bengochea-Tejero born on October 2nd. @principaltejero

Hot off the press! Some wonderful people (@mavalos_miami, Irina Malove, Susan Massey)) & I co-authored an article titled "Building on ELA Vocabulary Instruction to Develop Language Resources" in the The Reading Teacher.

So wonderful to have a conversation with one of my favorite artists and children’s book authors, @jmenendezillu. & talk about our experiences as bilingual teachers in NYC & how her bilingual books could be used to leverage chilfren’s culture & languages

Nevada is among the top five states furthest from meeting their projections for English learner (EL) teachers. We need to do better. #ccsd #nevadaeducation #nvleg #ell

Congratulations to the newly minted principal of Ollum Elementary, @alex_tejero1! I am so proud of his determination to get there & excited that people will get to see what I’ve known all along. Thrilled to see the impact of his leadership on students & the surrounding community!

Excited to be presenting our paper "Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers' transmodality in a dual language preschool classroom" with @DrSab_Sembiante & Dr. Mileidis Gort at #AERA2021 #AERA21BERSIG

Taking "holistic understanding of bilingualism to be true, then it is vital that...educators consider ways of moving beyond binaries of language separation 2 leverage Ss’ entire linguistic repertoires." PIE framework 2 implement translanguaging pedagogies

Delighted to share our policy paper titled "The viability of #bilingualeducation in #Nevada" in which we discuss the current context and provide recommendations for policymakers and districts: #CCSD #ELLs #bilingual #unlv

New publication with @DrSab_Sembiante titled “Want me to show you?”: Emergent #bilingual #preschoolers’ #multimodal resourcing in show-and-tell activity. Free access for first several downloads:

Just published with @DrSab_Sembiante! Attracting & Responding to an Audience: #Preschoolers’ #Multimodal Composing in Show-and-Tell Activity in @ncte's @LangArtsNCTE Free access: 1/2

“Being a first-generation student means that you can’t rely on family members to teach you about university life... You have to be proactive and intentional about figuring out information that continuing-generation students arrive knowing or can access...”

First visit in the Dept. of Ed!

Dr. Joseph (@profnicolej) from Vanderbilt leads a discussion on integrating academic language in mathematics with our final cohort for Project #E3UNLV. These teacher leaders in #ELL #education come from @ClarkCountySch, @Humboldtunified, & @carsonscholars.

Graduating our first cohort of project E3 teacher leaders #unlv @unlvcoe

Presented An emergent #bilingual child’s object-sourced transmodal practices in sociodramatic #play with @DrSab_Sembiante #multimodality #aera