Languages other than English (LOTE) instruction has continued to decline for students in public elementary and middle school over the past decades (click here for more details of this trend). With tighter budgets directly tied to performance on standardized achievement tests, many administrators view LOTE programs as unnecessary for academic success, especially for districts in which […]
The link below is Think Bilingual Austin’s recent presentation at NABE 2017 Pre-Conference on how dual language immersion programs, beginning in early childhood and elementary education, can enhance learning and participation in STEAM disciplines. Bilingual STEAM
Shortly after I moved to Texas, I met up with my good friend and former college roommate, Stephanie. Stephanie is German and she had moved to Corpus Christi, Texas with her husband one year prior to my moving to Austin. When we first reunited, she told me about an interesting discovery she had made. While sitting […]
Happy New Year! We begin our post this year with five important tips for becoming bilingual combined with posts from previous years to help you and your family learn or enhance your second language throughout 2017. 1. Enroll in a Language Learning Program Today more and more options are becoming available to help children and adults […]
Next month, November 12 from 12 pm – 4pm, Think Bilingual Austin, in partnership with AISD, will be hosting Austin’s first Bilingual “STEAM” event. “STEAM” as a common acronym that refers to disciplines related to science, technology, engineering, the arts and math. However, the word “STEAM” also refers to power and energy (like in steam engine). […]
Aileen Passariello-McAleer and Christia Hoffman did not set out with the goal of starting their own internet company. In fact, they found each other quite by accident, through the site of another internet company— meetup.com Aileen (a mom fluent in Spanish since childhood) had decided, all on her own, to offer free Mom and Baby […]
Fifty years ago, when Kathryn Anderson was a little girl growing up in Austin, being bilingual was anything but common. Non-native English speakers worked as hard as they could to learn English as quickly as they could, and native English speakers had no need to learn a second language. It would be decades before scientific […]