Multilingualism Book Club

A private, asynchronous summer book club for educators reading Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners by Jim Cummins.
We will use the book to think together about multilingualism in real classrooms, leadership systems, and school communities—sharing reflections, questions, examples, and occasional respectful nerdy disagreement along the way.
Reading rhythmJuly 15 — Introduction / foundationsJuly 22 — Bilingualism, cognition, and developmentJuly 29 — Interdependence and academic developmentAugust 5 — Identity, power, and underachievementAugust 12 — Critical analysis of translanguaging theoryAugust 19 — Interdependence, CUP, and understanding multilingualismAugust 26 — Teachers as knowledge generators; where do we go from here?

Come as an EAL teacher, classroom teacher, school leader, researcher, or fellow multilingualism nerd. Read at your own pace; contribute when you can.