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Children’s Author Monica Brown on Being Bicultural and Celebrating Individuality-MainPhoto

Children’s Author Monica Brown on Being Bicultural and Celebrating Individuality

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Monica Brown is the award-winning author of Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People (Henry Holt), which won the Américas Award for Children's Literature and an Orbis Pictus Honor for Outstanding Nonfiction, Waiting for the Biblioburro (Random House),…
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Sharing Our Hispanic Heritage Pride & Bicultural Advantage

[Mamiverse's Bilingual Plus is an online channel devoted to bringing parents and educators the bilingual learning tools they need in the form of digital picture books, sing-alongs, and free curriculum-based family activities.] One of the…
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Yes! We Are Latinos

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In this boldly illustrated hardcover book, 13 Latino children are introduced with poems about their lives in the United States. Juanita is from Mexico, but her native language is Mixtec. When she is enrolled in a school in New York and placed…
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Why Spaniards Struggle to Learn English

[Mamiverse's Bilingual Plus is an online channel devoted to bringing parents and educators the bilingual learning tools they need in the form of digital picture books, sing-alongs, and free curriculum-based family activities.] Two words come…
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Losing the Bilingual Battle Where it Matters: With My Own Daughter

I am sitting in the North Charleston Coliseum in South Carolina ensconced in a piece of pure Americana. A CNN debate between the Republican presidential candidates is unfolding beneath a sea of cardboard red, white and blue stars and stripes. "I…
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A Bilingual Ed Teacher Stands Up for Her Student

A Hispanic bilingual ed teacher explains how she stands up for her student at school. It was windy and cold that December day. It had to be 29 degrees outside, I thought, but I’m no weather girl.  Some misbehaving high school student…
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The Reality of Being Bilingual and Bicultural

We now know that it is possible to speak two languages fluently and switch from one to the other with ease, but the gnawing question is, Can we belong to two different cultures? My mantra is that a language does not exist in a vacuum, that…
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Emerging Writer Gina Ruiz Speaks of Writing

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This is the ninth in a monthly (sometimes twice-monthly) series of guest blog posts in which emerging Latina writers talk about their work, their process and what inspires them, on Following The Lede, a blog by Sabrina Vorvoulias.  Gina…
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Hispanic Heritage Award Winners Honor Service & Vision

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The Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) will present awards to nine outstanding leaders and visionaries within the Latino community during the prestigious Hispanic Heritage Awards on September 5 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing…