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As a proud bilingual educator, Silvia Ortiz exemplifies excellence in teaching, leadership and advocacy for bilingual learners at her school and in her small rural district. Ortiz is a passionate advocate for her mostly Latinx bilingual students as an English Language Development Teacher at Hudson Elementary School in Weld RE-3 School District. 

Kim Strong has dedicated her work to spreading the love and kindness her supportive community of immigrant and bilingual family members and friends have afforded her.“As the parent of an ‘English learner’ child, partner to a

Growing up in Kansas and venturing out for vacations only as far as the family car would reach, Molly Hamm-Rodríguez never dreamed she would find her calling in international education and the Dominican Republic. Now,

Before enrolling at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· as a doctoral student, Caitlin Fine was a science teacher in a dual-language elementary school in Virginia, where she was often frustrated by her district’s narrative that teaching science in Spanish

Andrés Martínez, 23-year veteran social studies teacher, has studied the important role ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· played in the Chicano Movement in Colorado and the opportunity to have a ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· graduate education has been a welcome chapter in his story.