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2026 Bea Gonzales Scholarship application ready! Application for San Diego County graduating multilingual high school students earning the Seal of Biliteracy.
Apply here: tinyurl.com/2026BGscholars
Deadline: 5pm, Fri. Mar. 20, 2026
Please share with eligible students!
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Lo único más poderoso que el odio, es el amor.
The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate is Love. @sanbenito #AppleMusicHalftime
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Congratulations to our Spanish Spelling Bee winners advancing to state!
Thank you to the 66 students from 14 districts who competed in Region 4’s second annual Spanish Spelling Bee. We’re proud of every participant and wish our winners the best of luck at state!
Elementary Division
🏆 Winning Word: trascendental
🥇 1st Place: Maureen Alvarez—@GalenaParkISD
🥈 2nd Place: Camila Rios—@SBISD
🥉 3rd Place: Ainoa Zuloaga—@TomballISD
Middle School Division
🏆 Winning Word: tuétano
🥇 1st Place: Jonathan Pabon—@PasadenaISD_TX
🥈 2nd Place: Leonardo Fonteboa—@SpringISD
🥉 3rd Place: Claudia García de Albizu Ibáñez—@TomballISD
AnneLeal retweeted
Happy Motivational Monday!
Reminder: The world needs bilingual leaders like you. Your language skills are more than just words—they connect communities, create opportunities, and inspire change. Keep showing up, speaking up, and leading with your voice. 🌍✨
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See why educators, leaders, and specialists love our 2025 Bilingual/ESL Conference. Attendees left with strategies they can use today and connections that will last all year. @R4Multilingual
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Plyler v. Doe remains essential to ensuring every child—regardless of immigration status—has access to a public education. This analysis from @FWDus reinforces why protecting Plyler is critical for Texas students, families, and communities. fwd.us/news/the-power-of-ply…
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We must let go at the thought that learning English as an additional language in school is a problem. #bilingualism is an asset.
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Think-Pair-Share has the widest gap between success and failure in the classroom. With clear prompts, tight timing, and real accountability, it’s a powerhouse for thinking. Toss it in without intentional design and it collapses into noise. With TPS, intentionality is everything.
THINK-PAIR-SHARE! A well-structured Think–Pair–Share routine can significantly boost participation, thinking, and the quality of student responses. This week’s ⚗️DistillED includes this FREE handy resource designed to help students master the WHAT, WHY, and HOW of the process.
GRAB IT HERE! 👇
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Teachers hold the 🔑 key to lesson accessibility.
Will all students have access? Can every student participate and engage?
It’s not enough to make the content available.
#teaching #teachingenglish #teachingideas
AnneLeal retweeted
Energized after a full day of connecting with educational leaders during the @R4Multilingual Bilingual/ESL conference! We are ready to build capacity and support districts engaging in #adoption and #implementation of #HQIMs in Texas! @elsuccessforum #R4BESLConf @CrysGonzales7
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Happy Motivational Monday 🌟
Let’s remember that bilingual students bring rich knowledge, culture, and lived experiences into every classroom they enter. Their voices matter. Their stories belong.
Nuestro idioma no es un obstáculo — es una fortaleza. 📚💛🫶🏽
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Why student success starts with teacher clarity, teamwork, by leader @AngelaHinton308 via @smartbrief:
smartbrief.com/original/why-…
ALT Venn diagram titled "Instructional Vision," with sections including Teaching and Learning Teams, Multi-Tiered Systems of Support and Research-Based Instruction.
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Starting the week with this reminder:
Bilingualism is a gift — un regalo.
Let’s uplift our emergent bilinguals today! 💛💬✨
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What does winter mean to you? What do you do in the winter?
Through a culturally inclusive approach, students' voices are lifted and encouraged, and their experiences and traditions are shared. The winter holidays may not look and feel the same for each family. Not every student will go on a vacation or wake up to presents under a tree. But each will have experiences and traditions. We just need to uncover what those traditions are.
Let's be curious!
#teaching #ESL #RootEDLinguistics #TESOL #ELLs #ESOL #multilingual #bilingualkids #education #multilingualism #diversityandinclusion #inclusionmatters
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Our classrooms are like landscapes. They are environments that students either THRIVE in or they learn to SURVIVE in. What type of environment have you cultivated?
#teaching #teaching_english #teachingideas #teachingenglish #teachingresources #languagelearning #bilingualeducation #bilingualbooks
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TIME again names UH a top college for future leaders. UH ranks No. 77 this year, up 11 spots and one of only three Texas public universities on the list.
Read more: bit.ly/4oQixOn
ALT UH graduates smiling at a commencement ceremony with text that reads, “University of Houston Named a Top 100 College for Future Leaders by TIME Magazine.”
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❗️Materials matter and we are gearing up to a powerful conversation for leaders in #Texas! Join us on December 8th, when we will hear from @mcglynn3, Renae Skarin and @drgoffney on the impact of #HQIMs in our #EBs access to educational achievement. elsuccessforum.org/events/un…
