Enlisting and Providing Support

The purpose of the blog is for colleagues and me to enrich each other’s collection of ideas, resources, and personal experiences.

Bilingual Education and Academic Success:

While asking my colleagues for help with my advocacy action plan, my wishes are to find someone who has actually carried out an advocacy action plan. I would like to share some resources that helped me through my advocacy action plan Bilingual Education and Academic Success. These are Resources and/or information that I have found helpful and insightful:                        

                                                  Annotated Bibliography

Bangura, Abdul Karim, and Martin C. Muo. United States Congress & Bilingual Education. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.

This book is about the role of the legislative branch of the National Government of the U.S. in the passage of the 1968 Bilingual Education Act. Four main questions are examined in this book.

DebBurman, Noyna. Immigrant Education: Variations by Generation, Age-at-Immigration, and Country of Origin. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2005.

In this book DebBurman discusses changes that are arising in the United States because of immigration. The book discusses labor and social issues that relate to immigration and focuses on education practices in the United States that have to adapt to teaching a larger population as well as an ever changing population. "Educational attainment for adult immigrants" and "school enrollment for immigrant children" are the two points of immigrant education most evaluated.

Baker, Keith A., and Adriana A. de Kanter, eds. Bilingual Education: A Reappraisal of Federal Policy. Lexington: LexingtonBooks, 1983.

This book covers all the bases that the Department of Education covered in 1983 when doing a thorough review of Bilingual Education's effectiveness as well as the other alternatives to Bilingual Education. The book was "prepared by the Office of Planning, Budget, and Evaluation (OPBE) of the U.S. Department of Education." (Baker, ix) The information on the alternatives to Bilingual Education still applies, but many new alternatives have been developed since 1983 so it is a little out of date. Most importantly though it recognizes that if Bilingual Education is to be successful, no matter what method is being used, it must be adequately funded and correctly implemented.

My ideas are that, controversial issues such as the theory and practice of bilingual education are an issue that is concern to those of us who will like for bilingual children to succeed in society.

Questions I have about my Advocacy Action Plan are that I wonder if I should present one day or two days. I do not want to overwhelm the people that I am in contact with.  I feel that too much information can become overwhelming if it is not presented with care.

The questions that I have about the presentation that I am about to do is:

How will this advocacy action plan impact the children and families that I help to serve?

How will my colleagues benefit from my plan on Bilingual Education and Academic Success as they help me help those children and the families that we serve?

Will I present with enough passion and commitment to sway other advocates, and professionals to get on board with reference to working the advocacy action plan?