Tag: california dual language

• The Right to a Bilingual Education in California

  When Proposition – 58 passed in 2016 it repealed Proposition 227. Proposition 227 eliminated bilingual education for students who speak a language other than English in the state of California. Proposition -58 makes bilingual education programs a requirement in public schools as long as they meet the following requirement. Community members have the right to…

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  December 1, 2019

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  bilingual, Bilingual Education, bilingualism, california dual language, dual language education, two-way bilingual education

• Children’s Book Review: My Papi has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero

  A CHILDREN’S BOOK THAT HONORS CHICANX STUDENTS CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC HERITAGE It was an honor to write a blog post promoting Isabel Quintero’s book, My Papi Has a Motorcycle, for many reasons, but one of them is because I also grew up in Southern California. The illustrations, Zeke Peña, created resonated with me because they reflected…

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  May 13, 2019

  Bilingual Product(s)

  agency, bicultural, bilingual, bilingual children, bilingual life, bilingualism, california dual language, Chincanx, culturally sustaining, gentrification, identity, immigrant, mexican, mexican-american, multicultural books, multilingual books, social positioning, spanglish, translanguaging

• Latinx Community Raising Bilingual Children

  Ever since I decided to raise my daughters in a bilingual world I knew that I didn’t fit the profile of the many “how to raise a bilingual child”  books I was reading. First, the “one parent one language” (OPOL) method wasn’t a right fit because both my husband and I are bilingual. The “minority…

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  June 15, 2017

  3rd generation bilinguals, Bilingual Education, Language:Culture Expression & Identity, multicultural education, multilingual education

  bicultural, bilingual, Bilingual Education, bilingual life, bilingual strategies, bilingualism, california dual language, foreign language schools, immersion schools, immigrant, language policy, Latinx Community, parents and second language education, spanglish

• Co-authored a Huffington Post Article about CA’s Proposition 58- LEARN

  Please help me in spreading the news about California’s Proposition 58 – (Language Education, Acquisition and Readiness). It will be on the November ballot and we must get California residents to vote YES. Voting YES means ALL students in the state of CA will have the opportunity to receive a multilingual education. This isn’t the…

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  August 16, 2016

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  bicultural, bilingual, Bilingual Education, bilingualism, california dual language, identity, immersion schools, Proposition 58, translanguaging

• Multilingual Education: California Education for a Global Economy Initiative (California EdGE Initiative)/Senate Bill (SB) 1174

  This post is about Senate Bill 1174 which would repeal and amend proposition 227 of 1998 in the state of California. Proposition 227 ended bilingual education services for students who did not speak English. The new bill would provide services for ALL students in the state of California that would put them on the path…

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  November 10, 2015

  Bilingual Education, California Education for a Global Economy Initiative (California EdGE Initiative), dual immersion, dual language education, multicultural education, multilingual education, SB 1174, senate bill 1174

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