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PAPER WORDS is a short story about an immigrant student trapped in an English-only class and the difficulties she faces in a new classroom in a new country. This short story was one of the featured films at the 2012 California Assn for Bilingual Educators. Teachers and parents loved it! Why? Because...

I made a film which you an watch online for free about how bilingual teachers can help focus bilingual students to study language more in depth. Elsewhere in this forum, I posted details about my films. Poetry Inside Out is an example of a successful program that helps students compare words in each...

I am someone who was placed in an English-only classroom when I arrived into this country. Let me say that this was a horrible experience. When I speak with other immigrants who are English Learners and their experience trying to integrate into an English-only system, it hasn't served them so well a...

POETRY INSIDE OUT (PIO) is a film that follows several bilingual students and teachers over an academic year as the teachers use poetry to help improve language literacy. Students study the meaning of words in multiple languages to learn the deeper nuances of those words. The film shows how the teac...

Paper Words recently showed at the California Assn for Bilingual Educators. Teachers loved it! Why? Because it captured the issues of an immigrant family trying to assimilate into a public school system without any multilingual resources. And the audience fell in love with the main character, Mei, a...

Paper Words recently showed at the California Assn for Bilingual Educators. Teachers loved it! Why? Because it captured the issues of an immigrant family trying to assimilate into a public school system without any multilingual resources. And the audience fell in love with the main character, Mei, a...

I am writing bilingual educators to let you all know about a film that will be showing on PBS this coming weekend. Unfortunately, films made for and about underrepresented communities don't have the type of financial support that mainstream media has, so we indie filmmakers really depend on grass ro...

I am a independent filmmaker whose film, PAPER WORDS, a 3D-animated short film, will be airing nationally as part of the program: GLOBAL VOICES on Feb 26, 2011 on public broadcast television. I am spreading the word about this broadcast to communities that might be interested. This is a unique film ...