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A podcast about multilingual education in New Mexico and beyond. We invite a wide variety of experts in the field of multilingual education to address theories, practices, policies, and issues related to multilingual education. The primary goal of the podcast is to provide a platform that brings the art and science of multilingual education from the classrooms, where it is practiced, to wider audiences. Your host is David Aram Wilson, a retired K-5 multilingual educator and currently a full-time lecturer at the University of New Mexico, where he educates future multilingual teachers. You can contact us by tapping the Send us Fan Mail in the episode view of your podcast app, or via Facebook and Instagram @languagegoestoschool. Our Gmail address is: [email protected]. Our website is https://languagegoestoschool.buzzsprout.com. You can subscribe to the podcast by tapping Support the Show in the episode view. A $3/month subscription is actually a generous contribution to the show. And please leave us a review in the show view of your app. Final sound mixing by Auphonic.com. Music by E. Grenga, C. Lawry, D. Stevens, M. McMahon/Ionics/RimoMusic. Artwork by Simon Young at Guerrilla Graphix

Recent Episodes

Carlos Madrid and the Instituto Cervantes: La Mancha meets the Land of Enchantment

Albuquerque, New Mexico, was a part of Nueva España, or New Spain, for nearly 300 years, before it became part of Mexico and later the United States. It’s no wonder, then, that its ties to Spain remain strong. El Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque goes a long way toward maintaining those ties, as it offers Spanish language classes and leveled Spanish certification programs, cultural events, film festivals, public school collaboration, and more. Our guest on this episode is Carlos Madrid, an h...

35 MIN

Westminster v. Mendez (1947): The Most Consequential Civil Rights Case You've Never Heard Of

Racial segregation in public schools was not restricted to the South. Since 1896, the Plessy v. Ferguson separate-but-equal doctrine was practiced nationwide, including in California. Until the 1940s, there were laws on the books in California that allowed for the segregation of Asian Americans and Native Americans from Anglo (White) Americans. However, there was no law permitting the segregation of Mexican Americans. But that didn’t stop the Westminster, California, school board from buildin...

41 MIN

Olivia Flores: Kansas City Here I Come!

In this episode, we speak with Olivia Flores, a dynamic young bilingual educator from Chicago, who now calls herself a proud transplant to Kansas City, Missouri. Bilingual education in the heart of the Midwest? Well, yes. Of course! Due to recent increases in the number of Spanish-speaking immigrants to the Midwest, often due to the meat and poultry processing and home construction industries, the Midwest has experienced an impressive increase in the number of first-language Spanish-speaking ...

48 MIN

Rafe Martinez: "Signing Up" for English-ASL Dual-Language Education

Rafe Martinez didn’t become a leader in deaf education in New Mexico because he’s deaf. He’s not. He became a leader in deaf education because his son was born deaf, and Rafe and the rest of the family needed to communicate with him. But Rafe quickly discovered that American Sign Language, or ASL, is not just for deaf students and their families. It’s also for hearing students whose parents are deaf. These students are known as CODA, or Children Of Deaf Adults. Then there are hearing students...

45 MIN

Shooting for the Moon in Baoulé

Those who don't speak the dominant language of their region as their first language know all too well that language status—and the consequences of it—are real. Without being entirely conscious of it, all societies have developed language hierarchies that place some languages in positions of prestige, at or near the top of the hierarchy, while relegating other languages to positions of subordination, at or near the bottom of the hierarchy. This is most evident in regions where, long ago, a col...

22 MIN