Mina Hernandez Garcia, PhD candidate in Educational Studies, featured on "Strength in the Midst of Change" podcast
Hernandez Garcia speaks about supporting bilingual and multilingual students to thrive through the use of culturally sustaining practices in the classroom.
Mina Hernandez Garcia, a 2022 CEW+ Scholar and the first Amy Mecozzi Cho and Lawrence Cho Family Scholar, spoke with the CEW+ podcast "Strength in the Midst of Change" about the culturally sustaining pedagogy known as "translanguaging."
Hernandez Garcia is a PhD candidate in Educational Studies with a focus on “translanguaging,” or teachers’ and students’ use of multiple languages to make meaning in subject-matter classrooms. In this podcast episode, she shares her insights about supporting bilingual and multilingual students to thrive through the use of culturally sustaining practices in the classroom.
“Home language is not a scaffolding or crutch toward learning English,” says Hernandez Garcia. “Students’ bilingualism is a resource and not something that needs to be fixed.”