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Lily and Duran joins us on today's episode to talk about bi-literacy, including the importance of

valuing the home language of all of our students. Dr. Duran is a professor in the College of Education

at the University of Oregon, and her research is focused on the improvement of instructional

and assessment practices with dual language learners. It was such a pleasure to talk with

Lillian about what biliteracy means, how we can use assessment practices to help inform

instructional needs, and how language learning impacts literacy development.

Hello, Lillian. Thank you so much for joining us on today's episode. I'm really glad I could be

here, and it's really great to have this opportunity to speak to your audience.

Well, our audience always loves it when our guests introduce themselves and share a little bit about your journey in this context.

We're going to be talking about a little bit, a little bit about biliteracy.

So we would love for you to share that journey.

All right.

Well, I began my career as an early childhood special education teacher.

And I was doing lots of assessments for eligibility.

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