Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video from Syracuse, NY, Areli Schermerhorn, a peer evaluator for ELL and bilingual educators, share how she encourages colleagues to support students' home languages. She also describes how she handled a situation in which another teacher told an Arabic-speaking student that "we don't speak that language here."

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