Lessons from a Dual Language Bilingual School: Celebrando una decada de Dos Puentes Elementary

The book explores the lessons, successes, and challenges of starting and growing a dual language school, featuring the voices of families, teachers, school administrators, and university partners. It highlights key moments in the life of the school and contextualizes these experiences within the wider literature, offering implications and next steps for the field of bilingual education.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 284 pages
Publication date: 13 August 2024
Publisher: Multilingual Matters

An exploration of the lessons, successes, and challenges of starting and growing a dual language school, directly from those within the school community, is presented in this chapter. Reflecting on the first 10 years of Dos Puentes Elementary School in New York City, it explores the evolution of the school through its four founding pillars: bilingüismo, biliteracidad y multiculturalismo, las familias son partners, leaders, and advocates, investigaciones, and hands-on learning, and partnerships with universities, organizations, and the community. The chapter authors include families, teachers, school administrators, and university partners, centering the voices of those directly involved in the school community and highlighting key moments in the life of the school. At the end of each chapter, researcher commentary contextualizes these experiences within the wider literature and discusses implications and next steps for the field of bilingual education. This book will be of interest to pre- and in-service teachers and school administrators, particularly those looking to develop bilingual programs in their own context.

Weight: 436g
Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800417373