What are our principles?

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As Teachers, Scholars, and Co-Learners, We:

  • Believe we are ALL multilingual and (trans)language in a variety of modes, modalities, signs, named and unnamed languages, Black Englishes, world Englishes, dialects, varieties, codes, hybridization, remixing and beyond.

  • Reject the exclusion, marginalization, pathologization, and racialization of students for their perceived (dis)abilities, home, and community language practices.

  • Counteract an overemphasis on standardized English as the only legitimate language practice for generating knowledge in school and academic places.

  • Commit to co-creating spaces and opportunities to practice liberatory languaging for all minoritized communicators.

What frameworks and theories support how we teach and learn?

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