Phillips outlines an assets-based approach to emergent multilingual learners
Phillips says New York City children enter early childhood programs with linguistic and cultural assets. She says the system should recognize those languages as strengths and give families meaningful access.
Thank you for the opportunity to discuss how we support emergent multilingual children and families across early childhood programs in New York City, as well as our early childhood dual language bilingual education program.
New York City's children enter our early childhood programs with tremendous linguistic and cultural assets.
Across our early childhood system, children may be learning English while also developing one of the many other languages spoken by New York City families.
Our responsibility is to build an early childhood system that recognizes those languages as strengths,
provides children with developmentally appropriate opportunities to learn across languages, and ensures that families have meaningful access to their children's education.