“You have to be really strategic about learning more about your students, their educational background, their culture, and their interests,” Daniella Bass says about her experience as an educator in the most culturally and linguistically diverse district in the country.

An English learners coordinator at DeKalb County School District in Georgia, Bass joined All For Literacy host Dr. Liz Brooke for Season 3, Episode 2. After working with refugees through various nonprofits and AmeriCorps, Bass earned her Masters of Arts in Teaching and has dedicated her career to supporting this population as they learn English.

Gain actionable insight into how to:

• Build a sense of connection across a range of diverse backgrounds, and why this connection supports student success
• Use content knowledge and background knowledge to increase student learning
• Include content-area teachers in literacy programs
• Honor students’ first languages and leverage what they already know
• Engage specifically with the parent population
• Identify useful resources

Listen to Season 3, Episode 2 today to gain a better understanding of how to approach language and literacy in multilingual and multicultural classrooms.