Another Great Year of Language, Learning, and Culture The last time I sat down to write an end-of-year post for Esperanza Education, the team had only been blogging for six months. Now it has been a year and a half and I couldn’t be more impressed with the passion of our team an
Two New Teachers Join the Esperanza Education Team We are very excited to welcome two new teachers to the Esperanza Education team of collaborators. Kathryn Stewart will be offering English support for all ages and interests, including test preparation, and Martín Urrutia Varese will
New Tools for Old Languages Last week, a friend sent me information about an upcoming gathering in Mexico for activists working with digital media to promote indigenous languages and culture online (información en español aquí). The invitation explains that over 300 indigenous languag
Multilingual Literacy through Stories I have written before about the importance of educating children in their first language. In Peru, I worked with schools that promote Intercultural Bilingual Education for indigenous children, teaching them literacy skills in their first language
An online community to correct your target language writing I just registered for Lang-8 a few days ago, and I’m impressed with this website/social platform. It is a genius idea and ripe for our interconnected world: connect a bunch of people from different first languages and l
Resource Sharing for Progressive Spanish Teachers I am very excited to announce the launch of the Spanish for Social Justice website! A space for teachers to easily find and share resources for teaching social justice in the Spanish classroom. The Spanish for Social Justice Teacher Ne
After the popularity of the first two interviews in this series, with Maria in Vancouver and Jeremy in Berlin, I am happy to introduce open-minded, open-hearted, and multilingual Jordi. A Barcelona-born cultural explorer in Turkey In spring 2013, Jordi began traveling around the world
A Journey in Multilingual Blogging On July 1st, 2013 we launched the Esperanza blog: Language, Learning, and Culture. Five women with a love for progressive language education, but different backgrounds and interests, came together to share their ideas. Today we have a growing archive
A Song by Kukama Children in Defense of their Native Language This video features a beautiful song and rap by the children of Nauta, Loreto in the Peruvian Amazon about saving their native language, Kukama-Kukamiria. The children go around removing the tape that covers each other̵
Qual o objetivo O projeto Favela Painting pretende pintar, com a participação da comunidade local, a fachada de todas as casas de uma favela da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Quais os benefícios Seus idealizadores acreditam que tornar o ambiente mais bonito vai atrair um olhar mais positiv
