Using Enrique’s Journey in the Classroom

“Like Enrique, many of our ELLs make courageous journeys to our classrooms,whether they are crossing neighborhood boundaries or country borders. We must show our own courage by refusing to push these students to the margins. Instead, we must attend to the linguistic needs of our ELLs while developing the critical literacy skills they need to navigate cultural barriers and tear down societal walls.”

—Luciana C. de Oliveira and Melanie Shoffner, “Courageous Literacy: Linguistically Responsive Teaching with English Language Learners” (Voices from the Middle, March 2017)