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  1. Biliteracy para todos Introductory Webinar

    Biliteracy para todos Introductory Webinar

    Watch as Dr. Sandra Mercuri and Vivian Pratts discuss Biliteracy para todos. A newly designed standards-based program for progression from early to advanced bil...
  2. Biliteracy para todos™

    Biliteracy para todos™

    Introducing Biliteracy para todos™, the essential new resource for dual language learning. This unique program has been carefully crafted for simultaneous Spa...
  3. Bilingual Education - The Three Pillars of Bilingual Education

    Bilingual Education - The Three Pillars of Bilingual Education

    Bilingual Education focusing on preview, view and review technique  In this video Educational Consultant, Vivian Pratts highlights the three pillars of Bili...
  4. Emergent Bilingual - The Transition from Defining Students as English Language Learners to Emergent Bilingual

    Emergent Bilingual - The Transition from Defining Students as English Language Learners to Emergent Bilingual

    Emergent Bilingual - A More Positive Approach to Bilingualism  In this video, Vivian Pratts explains how the dual-language field is slowly moving toward the...
  5. Bilingualism - Balanced View of Bilinguals and Bilingualism 

    Bilingualism - Balanced View of Bilinguals and Bilingualism 

    In this video, Vivian Pratts talks about bilinguals, bilingualism, biliteracy, and translanguaging. With changes in the use of bilinguals and bilingualism, ...
  6. Translanguaging - Emergent Bilinguals: Simultaneous vs. Sequential

    Translanguaging - Emergent Bilinguals: Simultaneous vs. Sequential

    The History of Translanguaging  In this video, Vivian Pratts explains the concept of translanguaging, which was coined by Welsh educator, Cen Williams. He d...
  7. Translanguaging Pedagogy and Paired Literacy Instruction for Bilinguals

    Translanguaging Pedagogy and Paired Literacy Instruction for Bilinguals

    In this video, Vivian Pratts discusses the translanguaging pedagogy. The pedagogy itself is a teaching practice that is culturally responsive, such as dual-...
  8. Cross Language Connections During Preview, View and Review

    Cross Language Connections During Preview, View and Review

    In this video, Vivian Pratts breaks down the concept of Preview, View, Review. This is a technique in which a teacher takes a few minutes prior to teaching ...

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