Day 1 • Calendar and time review, Numbers 1-100, Numbers chart Day 2 • Celebration vocabulary, Ce... more Day 1 • Calendar and time review, Numbers 1-100, Numbers chart Day 2 • Celebration vocabulary, Celebrations reading, Evelin\u27s celebration Day 3 • Happy New Year!, How do you celebrate the new year? Day 4 • Ku Moo\u27s holiday, What time is it?, How important is time in your country? Day 5 • What do you celebrate?, Today is a holiday! My Packet Journal Reference Sheet Answer Key
Discourses of African immigrant children are rare in educational research. As such, African immig... more Discourses of African immigrant children are rare in educational research. As such, African immigrant educational experiences are often obscured (in part, owing to the model minority myth about Africans based on higher education degrees received by African immigrants), as well as the actual experiences and realities for African immigrant K-12 students. This qualitative study examines cross-cultural educational experiences of 30 Black African immigrant youth in U.S. schools. The findings reveal multiple participants' struggles with cultural and linguistic differences, stereotypes and marginalization in the school environment, low expectations from teachers, and
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
ABSTRACT This study explores experiences of 50 culturally and linguistically diverse African immi... more ABSTRACT This study explores experiences of 50 culturally and linguistically diverse African immigrant students attending public urban middle and high schools in the US. Drawing on in-depth interviews, and through constant comparison analysis, emerging findings highlight pedagogical, linguistic, and curricular variation struggles in the classroom; transitional contextual challenges; cultural mismatch; miscommunication, and stereotypes. In light of these experiences, African immigrant urban youth draw on familial, navigational and aspirational capital to resist stereotypical assumptions and to develop resilient skills necessary to navigate the inherent challenges. Findings underscore the importance of appreciating ways of knowing that deviate from the host country knowledges as instrumental to meeting the instructional needs of African immigrant students in United States schools.
This study examined factors linked to novice general education teachers’ perception of their prep... more This study examined factors linked to novice general education teachers’ perception of their preparedness to work with multilingual learners in the classroom. Using a multilevel modeling approach, we examined factors at the teacher and school levels using two AY 2015 to 2016 datasets: The National Teacher and Principal Survey from the National Center for Education Statistics and the Civil Rights Data Collection from the Office of Civil Rights. The results show that teacher perception of preparedness was positively associated with teacher education courses on working with multilingual learners, supports received during the first-year teaching, and the number of multilingual learners teachers worked within their classrooms. Similarly, the concentration of multilingual learners at the school level had a positive impact on preparedness. Overall, it appears that experiences both learning about and working with multilingual learners are positively associated with novice general education ...
International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2020
African immigrant populations are among the fastest growing immigrant populations in the United S... more African immigrant populations are among the fastest growing immigrant populations in the United States, yet they are understudied and are invisible immigrant group in the educational literature, particularly, in the context of educational discourses in the United States urban schools. Drawing on Phelan et al.'s multiple worlds model, we analyzed individual and focus group interviews of forty students, thirty-six parents, and twelve teachers from two schools. Findings showed that Ghanaian-born immigrant students undergo several complex transitional paradigms combining two worlds (school and home) of Ghanaian culture, past educational digitalcommons.unl.edu
Recent research has documented the ways that schools adapt to increasingly multilingual and multi... more Recent research has documented the ways that schools adapt to increasingly multilingual and multicultural student bodies. This qualitative study explores the schooling experiences of nine K-12 multilinguals not identified as English language learners in US schools. Using "deep interviewing" strategies, the authors expose the racializing function of language, but also semiotic processes such as markedness, iconicity, and erasure and sociological concepts such as habitus that are revealed through analysis of the participants' discourse about language and schooling. Additionally, the authors illustrate how transformative interviewing practices can spur development of learners' own agency in creating more equitable learning contexts for themselves. digitalcommons.unl.edu
Research on discourse in African classrooms has shown the predominance of teacher centered instru... more Research on discourse in African classrooms has shown the predominance of teacher centered instructional practices. Teacher centered discourse patterns have been blamed for student passivity and disengagement in knowledge production. In this article, we investigate teachers' use of the invariant tag isn't it in Kenyan primary classrooms during ELA and math lessons. Using Bernstein's pedagogical device theory, we submit that the tag plays a regulative function in classroom discourse. Based on our findings, we argue for greater attention to teachers' language choices and discuss implications for classroom discourse practice and research. The invariant tag isn't it is a common linguistic feature in World Englishes, including Kenyan English. Teachers across Kenya are familiar with use of isn't it in and outside the context of schooling. We examined use of isn't it in discourse in English medium classrooms. Teachers' use of the invariant tag isn't it regulated classroom discourse and limited dialogue
Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 2020
Background/Context Inclusion of African immigrant youth voices in educational and research discou... more Background/Context Inclusion of African immigrant youth voices in educational and research discourses remains rare despite the steady growth of this population in the United States over the past four decades. Consequently, the multilingual abilities of these youth remain typically unnoticed or ignored in the classroom, and little is specifically known about their histories, cultures, expectations, and achievements. Purpose Using the narrative inquiry approach and the Natural, Institutional, Discursive, Affinity, Learner, and Solidarity (NIDALS) theoretical lens, we explore the lived experiences of one African immigrant high school student in the midwestern United States. Research Design Using narrative inquiry, we qualitatively explored the lived cultural, racial, and ethnic identities and self-images experienced by a Ghanaian-born female high school student, Akosua (pseudonym), as she navigated and resisted identities ascribed to her in the midwestern U.S. Findings The student'...
Day 1 • Calendar and time review, Numbers 1-100, Numbers chart Day 2 • Celebration vocabulary, Ce... more Day 1 • Calendar and time review, Numbers 1-100, Numbers chart Day 2 • Celebration vocabulary, Celebrations reading, Evelin\u27s celebration Day 3 • Happy New Year!, How do you celebrate the new year? Day 4 • Ku Moo\u27s holiday, What time is it?, How important is time in your country? Day 5 • What do you celebrate?, Today is a holiday! My Packet Journal Reference Sheet Answer Key
Discourses of African immigrant children are rare in educational research. As such, African immig... more Discourses of African immigrant children are rare in educational research. As such, African immigrant educational experiences are often obscured (in part, owing to the model minority myth about Africans based on higher education degrees received by African immigrants), as well as the actual experiences and realities for African immigrant K-12 students. This qualitative study examines cross-cultural educational experiences of 30 Black African immigrant youth in U.S. schools. The findings reveal multiple participants' struggles with cultural and linguistic differences, stereotypes and marginalization in the school environment, low expectations from teachers, and
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to ... more We are a consortium of researchers, teacher educators, and teachers who believe in and strive to foster multilingual excellence. Therefore, during this time of crisis and difficulty, we are eager to put our expertise and passions to use to try to be of assistance. We initially designed 21 immediate-response packets for K-5, as soon as the pandemic forced schools to shut down. We then applied for and received a grant that has allowed us to create more than 100 full activity packets, ranging from Levels 1-3 of English proficiency, and grades K-12. The breakdown of packets is as follows: Level 1-Entry into English Emphasis on developmentally appropriate interesting/challenging tasks
ABSTRACT This study explores experiences of 50 culturally and linguistically diverse African immi... more ABSTRACT This study explores experiences of 50 culturally and linguistically diverse African immigrant students attending public urban middle and high schools in the US. Drawing on in-depth interviews, and through constant comparison analysis, emerging findings highlight pedagogical, linguistic, and curricular variation struggles in the classroom; transitional contextual challenges; cultural mismatch; miscommunication, and stereotypes. In light of these experiences, African immigrant urban youth draw on familial, navigational and aspirational capital to resist stereotypical assumptions and to develop resilient skills necessary to navigate the inherent challenges. Findings underscore the importance of appreciating ways of knowing that deviate from the host country knowledges as instrumental to meeting the instructional needs of African immigrant students in United States schools.
This study examined factors linked to novice general education teachers’ perception of their prep... more This study examined factors linked to novice general education teachers’ perception of their preparedness to work with multilingual learners in the classroom. Using a multilevel modeling approach, we examined factors at the teacher and school levels using two AY 2015 to 2016 datasets: The National Teacher and Principal Survey from the National Center for Education Statistics and the Civil Rights Data Collection from the Office of Civil Rights. The results show that teacher perception of preparedness was positively associated with teacher education courses on working with multilingual learners, supports received during the first-year teaching, and the number of multilingual learners teachers worked within their classrooms. Similarly, the concentration of multilingual learners at the school level had a positive impact on preparedness. Overall, it appears that experiences both learning about and working with multilingual learners are positively associated with novice general education ...
International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2020
African immigrant populations are among the fastest growing immigrant populations in the United S... more African immigrant populations are among the fastest growing immigrant populations in the United States, yet they are understudied and are invisible immigrant group in the educational literature, particularly, in the context of educational discourses in the United States urban schools. Drawing on Phelan et al.'s multiple worlds model, we analyzed individual and focus group interviews of forty students, thirty-six parents, and twelve teachers from two schools. Findings showed that Ghanaian-born immigrant students undergo several complex transitional paradigms combining two worlds (school and home) of Ghanaian culture, past educational digitalcommons.unl.edu
Recent research has documented the ways that schools adapt to increasingly multilingual and multi... more Recent research has documented the ways that schools adapt to increasingly multilingual and multicultural student bodies. This qualitative study explores the schooling experiences of nine K-12 multilinguals not identified as English language learners in US schools. Using "deep interviewing" strategies, the authors expose the racializing function of language, but also semiotic processes such as markedness, iconicity, and erasure and sociological concepts such as habitus that are revealed through analysis of the participants' discourse about language and schooling. Additionally, the authors illustrate how transformative interviewing practices can spur development of learners' own agency in creating more equitable learning contexts for themselves. digitalcommons.unl.edu
Research on discourse in African classrooms has shown the predominance of teacher centered instru... more Research on discourse in African classrooms has shown the predominance of teacher centered instructional practices. Teacher centered discourse patterns have been blamed for student passivity and disengagement in knowledge production. In this article, we investigate teachers' use of the invariant tag isn't it in Kenyan primary classrooms during ELA and math lessons. Using Bernstein's pedagogical device theory, we submit that the tag plays a regulative function in classroom discourse. Based on our findings, we argue for greater attention to teachers' language choices and discuss implications for classroom discourse practice and research. The invariant tag isn't it is a common linguistic feature in World Englishes, including Kenyan English. Teachers across Kenya are familiar with use of isn't it in and outside the context of schooling. We examined use of isn't it in discourse in English medium classrooms. Teachers' use of the invariant tag isn't it regulated classroom discourse and limited dialogue
Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 2020
Background/Context Inclusion of African immigrant youth voices in educational and research discou... more Background/Context Inclusion of African immigrant youth voices in educational and research discourses remains rare despite the steady growth of this population in the United States over the past four decades. Consequently, the multilingual abilities of these youth remain typically unnoticed or ignored in the classroom, and little is specifically known about their histories, cultures, expectations, and achievements. Purpose Using the narrative inquiry approach and the Natural, Institutional, Discursive, Affinity, Learner, and Solidarity (NIDALS) theoretical lens, we explore the lived experiences of one African immigrant high school student in the midwestern United States. Research Design Using narrative inquiry, we qualitatively explored the lived cultural, racial, and ethnic identities and self-images experienced by a Ghanaian-born female high school student, Akosua (pseudonym), as she navigated and resisted identities ascribed to her in the midwestern U.S. Findings The student'...
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