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Language Goes To SchoolAlvarez v. Lemon Grove (1931): Making Lemonade out of the Lemons of SegregationIf you live in the United States and are familiar with only one decision handed down by a court of law, it’s probably the U.S. Supreme Court case known as Brown v. Board of Education. Specifically, that would be young Linda Brown, only nine years old when she sued her local Board of Education for sending her to an all-black school a mile and a half from her house, when there was a perfectly good white school right around the corner. But did you know this racial discrimination did not occur in the Deep South? It occurred in...
2026-01-0146 minLanguage Goes To SchoolIshtar Rosario Medina: Goddess of Love, War, Fertility . . . and BilingualismIn this episode, we visit with Ishtar Rosario Medina, whose educational and personal journey has spanned Puerto Rico, New York City, Mississippi, New Mexico, and now Minnesota. She was born in Puerto Rico and raised in the tradition of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Manhattan and Queens. At the age of 7, she returned to the island. Six years later, her path took an unconventional turn when her father implemented his idea of "homeschooling": enrolling her in his college courses at the University of Mayagüez. At 13, she was majoring in physics. Despite often excelling be...
2025-12-0141 minLanguage Goes To SchoolIna Montoya: So, You Want to Learn Apache . . .In this episode of Language Goes to School, we speak with Ina Montoya, lifelong educator, proud Jicarilla Apache (father’s side) and Navajo (mother’s side), and tireless advocate for the revitalization of Indigenous education in general, and Indigenous languages in particular. After years of teaching in the Dulce Independent School District of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, Ina recently served as the district's superintendent, a term that culminated in being named the 2024 Administrator of the Year by the New Mexico Association of Bilingual Education. She is currently the principal of Lybrook Elementary and Middle School, located conveniently—and, more import...
2025-11-0249 minLanguage Goes To SchoolNancy Oakes: Up, Up, and Away, in a Belle MontgolfièreIt is entirely possible to draw a straight line from the advent of human flight, to the world’s largest hot-air balloon fiesta, and thence to Nancy Oakes, our guest for this episode. That’s because Nancy was a high school French teacher in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, neighbor city of Albuquerque, the undisputed modern hot-air balloon capital of the world. It was there she established herself as a cultural, linguistic, and historical link between Albuquerque and Annonay, France, le berceau d’aviation, or the cradle of aviation. It was in Annonay that the Montgolfier brothers built and launched the wo...
2025-10-0149 minLanguage Goes To SchoolBardo Trujillo: Shredding the Guitar in SpanishBardo Trujillo first experienced the rush of the rapport between the rock guitarist and the audience in fourth grade, when he played The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin in the school talent show. In birdwatching jargon, this was his spark bird; for him, his spark performance. He was hooked. From there he took off on a lifelong career in music, specializing in classical, rock, metal, New Mexican, country, jazz, and pop. He holds a bachelor's degree in Guitar Performance and a master’s in performance on the classical guitar. Since fourth grade, he has played in over a dozen ba...
2025-08-1549 minLanguage Goes To SchoolNemiliztli Ortega Trinidad: Life is BilingualNemiliztli means “life” in Náhuatl, the language of the Mexica people who inhabited Tenotitchlán, a beautiful city in the middle of beautiful Lake Texcoco. Mexico City stands there today. And “life” adequately describes the path Nemiliztli Trinidad Ortega followed to becoming a bilingual teacher. Her mother taught bilingual kindergarten in Los Angeles and started a doctoral program in bilingual education at the University of Utah even before Nemiliztli was born. So, by the time she was born, she was surrounded by a world steeped in bilingual education. As a result, it was not surprising she attended dual-language programs f...
2025-08-0143 minLanguage Goes To SchoolMeyer v. Nebraska (1923) Strikes Down "Thou Shall Not Teach German"In this special episode of Language Goes to School, we investigate the blockbuster 1923 U.S. Supreme Court case Meyer v. Nebraska, in which parents won the right to “direct” the education of their children, even when their children are not home schooled, but attend the nation’s public and private schools. Recent surges in parents asserting their rights in schools have been evident in the years after the Covid pandemic, when, due to online learning, parents were suddenly afforded a window, in the form of their children’s laptops, into what their children were learning at school and how they wer...
2025-07-1629 min
Tomorrow’s Christian FOREVERPsalm 60For the choir director: A psalm of David useful for teaching, regarding the time David fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and killed 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. To be sung to the tune “Lily of the Testimony.”
2025-07-1407 minLanguage Goes To SchoolAdrián Sandoval: Water Is Life“El agua es la vida,” states Adrián Sandoval, a native of northern New Mexico, where water is indeed life, but also much, much more. For hundreds if not thousands of years, Native peoples of the area have used complex systems of irrigation to produce a variety of foods in this high, dry desert. The Spanish arrived in the 16th century with their own designs on how to make the most of limited water supplies in the Southwest. Both the Native and the Spanish populations used their respective languages as the basis of communication in order to build these syste...
2025-07-0142 minLanguage Goes To SchoolDr. Shana Drake-Lavelle: No Interpreter NeededThe relationship between doctor and patient is often delicate. When the doctor and patient speak two different languages, the relationship can be even more delicate and ripe for misunderstanding. Unless, of course, the doctor is bilingual and can communicate fluently with the patient, using non medical terminology the patient can understand. Dr. Shana Drake-Lavelle became bilingual in the 1990s by virtue of a nascent, elementary, dual-language program in New Mexico. She says the dual-language program contributed to the decision to choose a career in medicine, where many of her patients speak Spanish. Her dual-language experience was also instrumental in...
2025-06-1541 minLanguage Goes To SchoolMaame Adofoah Yamoah: Born TwiMaame Adofoah Yamoah informs us that, out of 54 countries on the African continent, only one, Equatorial Guinea, has established Spanish as the country’s official language. Maame is from Ghana, far to the west of Equatorial Guinea, where the colonial and official language is English and where virtually nobody in the country of 30 million people speaks Spanish. So, how did it happen that she’s a fluent speaker of Spanish—Castilian to be precise—complete with the telltale “theta” pronunciation? In this episode of our podcast, the first in Season 4, Maame explains how this came to be, as we...
2025-06-0152 minLanguage Goes To SchoolAnder Rojano: Keeping the Historical Languages of Spain AliveWho decides which among many historical languages of a country gets to be the eponymous of the country? In the case of Spain, which is home to at least four widely spoken languages, as well as several others not as widely spoken, only Castellano (or Castilian in English) gets to use Spanish, literally, “the language of Spain,” as its international name. Why aren't Catalán, Gallego, or Euskera, called "Spanish" instead? Had we posed this question to Ander Rojano, our guest for this episode, we’re confident we would have received an answer as comprehensive and interesting as the answers...
2025-04-1555 minLanguage Goes To SchoolDr. Stephanie Zarrasola says, "Smile! Tu dentista es bilingüe!"Teachers often wonder aloud, or with other teachers, whatever became of this student or that. Most of the time we never know. So, on those rare occasions when we are able to fill the gap in the life of a student between, say, fifth grade and adulthood, it is often surprising and gratifying. That is certainly the case with Stephanie Zarrasola, whom I last saw as she left my 3rd-4th-5th grade dual-language classroom in May 2001 for middle school. What transpired over the next 24 years was nothing less than astonishing: enrollment in the program for gifted students in...
2025-03-1542 min
Jonathan LittleWPH #555: How Did He Do THAT???
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Brock Wilson finds himself in a tough spot on the river against poker professional David Coleman during a $10,000 buy-in event at the 2024 U.S. Poker Open. Wilson’s pocket kings turn into a king-high flush, and he faces a value bet from Coleman with the ace-high flush. Will Wilson be able to use his years of poker experience to make the correct laydown?
Generally when you choose to make a continuation bet in multi-way pots you should always be looking to use smaller bet sizes. In tournament poker when you are the bi...
2025-03-1400 min
The Poker Coaching Podcast with Jonathan LittleWPH #555: How Did He Do THAT???
pokerstrategy #highstakespoker #pokergo
Brock Wilson finds himself in a tough spot on the river against poker professional David Coleman during a $10,000 buy-in event at the 2024 U.S. Poker Open. Wilson’s pocket kings turn into a king-high flush, and he faces a value bet from Coleman with the ace-high flush. Will Wilson be able to use his years of poker experience to make the correct laydown?
Generally when you choose to make a continuation bet in multi-way pots you should always be looking to use smaller bet sizes. In tournament poker when you are the bi...
2025-03-1400 minLanguage Goes To SchoolPhilippe Bérard: Navigating the Language Triangle in ArgentinaHumans have been multilingual for millennia. So have the various forms of education in which they’ve engaged. Modern trends toward bi- and multilingual education may seem new to some, but are actually a part of a much longer historical arc. Case in point: English-Spanish education at the Westminster-Juan Bautista Alberdi School in Buenos Aires, in which half of the academic subjects were taught in English and half in Spanish. It was this program that Philippe Bérard attended in elementary and middle school years in the 1960s and 1970s. But wait—there’s more! Philippe’s father was second-ge...
2025-03-0146 minLanguage Goes To SchoolDr. Lillian Gorman (Part 2): Grow Your Own Bilingual TeachersIn this episode, we continue our discussion with University of Arizona Professor and native neomexicana, Dr. Lillian Gorman, whose book, Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identity in Northern New Mexico, which was published recently by the Ohio State University Press. We ask her about responses her research participants provided that amounted to differences of perception and opinion regarding the identification and use of varieties of Spanish in northern New Mexico and in Mexico. We discuss the phenomenon of language loss and whether it is being addressed, consciously or unconsciously, within families and between community members. Dr. Gorman describes the...
2025-02-1537 minLanguage Goes To SchoolDr. Lillian Gorman (Part 1): The Old and the New in New Mexican SpanishWhat happens when varieties of Spanish spoken in northern New Mexico, still influenced by the Spanish spoken in the area 500 years ago, encounter more modernized varieties of Spanish spoken in present-day Mexico? This is a question Dr. Lillian Gorman of the University of Arizona wanted to investigate. Dr. Gorman’s own family was established in the region generations ago, so this is a question in which she also has a personal interest and investment. In her new book, Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico, Dr. Gorman discusses the dynamics of older and newer varieties of Sp...
2025-02-0138 minLanguage Goes To SchoolBonus (Part 2): More Boxing with Ben and Bob!This is part two of our interview with Albuquerque boxing agent and promoter and sponsor of our podcast, Ben Wilson. In part one, we learned from Ben how boxing legend Bob Foster made his way from West Texas to Albuquerque as a boy and his meteoric rise to the top of the sport as the light heavyweight champion of the world. In part two, Ben tells us about the close relationship Bob had with Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, as the two trained in 1959 for the Pan Am Games and the next year for the 1960 Olympics in...
2025-01-1637 minLanguage Goes To SchoolBonus (Part 1): Boxing with Ben and Bob!Those of you who have been listening to our podcast know our show is recorded in the Bob Foster Boxing Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. In fact, the museum is housed in the casita, or guest house, located in the back yard of my brother, Ben. Ben is a lawyer, whose list of clients includes aspiring young boxers in New Mexico. (If you’re imagining men’s underwear right now, you’re on the wrong track!). Ben got into the business of promoting boxing many years ago when he struck up a friendship with Bob Foster, the three-time light...
2024-12-1534 minLanguage Goes To SchoolLeslie Hernandez: Excelling in Bilingualism, Biliteracy, and Braille!This is the remarkable story of Leslie Hernández, who immigrated from Mexico to the United States on her 4th birthday, as her parents sought better health care for her. As an infant, Leslie was diagnosed with retinal blastoma, a type of eye cancer, which ultimately led to total blindness. Upon arriving in the US, Leslie was preschool age, so her parents enrolled her in the preschool at the New Mexico School for the Blind. They later enrolled her in the Albuquerque Public Schools, whose Program for the Blind and Visually Impaired at Zia Elementary helped her with Orientation a...
2024-11-1537 minLanguage Goes To SchoolDr. Curtis Chávez: Native Learning Meets Maria Montessori!What happens when the ancient traditions of Native America encounter the modern traditions of Europe? One version of that story is the one we all know: the arrival of a certain Italian “explorer” that led to the violent colonization of the continent by subsequent waves of invaders from other European countries. Another version looks like this: Native values, such as communal care and cohesion, organic and self directed learning, and a symbiotic relationship with the natural world, meet and meld seamlessly with the pedagogical theories and practices of a visionary Italian educator of the 20th Century. Yes, that would be M...
2024-11-0246 minLanguage Goes To SchoolDavid Rogers: Cosechando Bilingual Talent Since 1996!Meeting David Rogers in 1997 at the second annual La Cosecha Dual-Language Education Conference in Albuquerque was memorable. That our meeting occurred just a few dozen feet from live giraffes, elephants, lions, chimps, and other exotic fauna, made that meeting even more memorable. You read that correctly. The conference had been such a success the year before, David and crew had to move it from Dolores Gonzalez Elementary School to the Rio Grande Zoo, which was located conveniently across the street from the school. Since then, thousands of multilingual educators and I have looked forward every fall to attending the...
2024-10-1536 minLanguage Goes To SchoolWarlance Chee (Part 2): The Planting of the Language!In which we continue our conversation with Warlance Chee. Warlance is a Diné (Navajo) language and culture educator and co-founder of Saad K’idilyé, a Diné language nest in Albuquerque. Saad K’idilyé means “the planting of the language.” This unique language nest educates and enculturates children, prenatal to preschool, by surrounding them with rich cultural experiences in Diné bizaad, the Navajo language, in the big city, far from the Navajo Nation. In this second part of our conversation, Warlance addresses specific cultural activities practiced in the nest, Saad K’idilyé’s relationship to other indigenous language nests in North America, the...
2024-10-0827 minLanguage Goes To SchoolWarlance Chee (Part 1): Fledging Speakers of Diné Bizaad from the Nest!Create in your mind an image of a parent bird feeding its babies mouth-to-mouth and you have an apt metaphor for the concept of a human language nest. In a language nest, adults who are fluent in a language that is experiencing a steep decline in the number first language speakers, surround the youngest speakers in the community with the language, all the while engaging these young speakers in culturally meaningful practices. Warlance Chee is a Navajo language and culture teacher and one of the founders of Saad K’idilyé, an urban language nest in Albuquerque, where babies—some even s...
2024-10-0135 minLanguage Goes To SchoolFabiola Espinoza-Pacheco and Sinahi Oaxaca Seal the Deal!On January 30 of 2024, South Dakota became the 50th and final state to establish bilingual seal for high school graduates. The seal, which is affixed to the graduates’ diplomas, signifies the graduate has completed coursework in another language that certified them as fully bilingual and literate. For its part, New Mexico became the fifth state to establish a bilingual seal program, doing so on March 8, 2014. Sinahi Oaxaca is one of the most recent recipients of this distinction, earning not one, not two, but three such seals upon graduating from Albuquerque high school in 2024. Listen as we learn about the district, st...
2024-09-1546 minLanguage Goes To SchoolArin Peywa and the Woolly Warriors of Zuni Pueblo!The Zuni language has been an enigma for anthropologists and linguistics ever since the people of Zuni Pueblo, located in western New Mexico, first had contact with Europeans and Africans in the 16th century. Zuni is related to no other language in the region, in the country, or in the world. Arin Peywa is a native of Zuni Pueblo and a native speaker of the language, though her fluency was reduced if not eliminated early in life by punishments she endured while enrolled at a Catholic school at Zuni Pueblo. Later, as an adult, Arin revived her fluency with...
2024-09-0145 min
The Call Up | An MLB Prospect Podcast305 | Notable Call Ups and Prospect Promotions!Aram and Jack discuss the most notable call ups and prospect promotions over the last week and how each player has been trending.Jacob Wilson (MLB)Chayce McDermott (MLB)Nacho Alvarez (MLB)Brooks Baldwin (MLB)Zebby Matthews (AAA)Max Clark (A+)Kevin McGonigle (A+)Starlyn Caba (A)Eduardo Tait (A)Zach Dezenzo (AAA)Carter Jensen (AA)David Sandlin (AA)Ricky Tiedemann Injury :(Join Us on our Five Games in Five Days...
2024-07-2757 minLanguage Goes To SchoolJosé Luis López Marín: From Old Spain to New Spain to New Mexico and Back!If all you knew about José Luis was that he likes to travel, spend time with family and friends, and experience fine foods, you would be fulfilled. But lo! He teaches, too, in two different languages, and, in only sixteen years, has accrued a lifetime of experience in teaching elementary-aged kids. José Luis is, for the time being, the last in a series of teachers from Spain who have come to the rescue, so to speak, to support Spanish-English dual-language programs in New Mexico; ironic, when you think about it, but we don’t. We’re just gratef...
2024-07-1645 minLanguage Goes To SchoolTee McDougal: From Bilingual Ranch Kid to Multilingual, International Educator!When we suggested we pin the word “cowboy” to Tee McDougal’s boyhood identity, we were politely redirected to the term “farm and ranch kid.” But what an understated description! As a young boy and on into high school, he was milking cows, raising hogs, cultivating fields, bailing and bucking hay, butchering beef, digging irrigation ditches, stomping cotton in the hopper, erecting and repairing fences, and roping, branding, dehorning, and castrating calves and other farm animals, among other chores. The path he took to becoming a multilingual educator began with interactions with farm hands from Mexico. It continued through a 10-year...
2024-07-0133 minLanguage Goes To SchoolJudy Gordon: Multilingual and Multiage Teacher Pioneer!Originally from New York State, Judy Gordon was one of the cofounders in 1995 of the Zia Elementary School dual language program in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was hired to teach the Kindergarten-first-and-second grade class, while another teacher [podcast host clears throat] was hired to teach the third-fourth-and-fifth-grade class. To some, it might seem intimidating to take on the challenge of teaching three grades simultaneously in two languages. But for Judy, this model was simply the way education should be, since it better reflected the multilingual and multiage life outside the classroom that most of her students were...
2024-06-1535 minLanguage Goes To SchoolMichele Trujillo: Dual-Language Kindergarten Teacher and Artist Extraordinaire!Michele Trujillo is the longest serving kindergarten teacher in the dual-language program at Zia Elementary in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She joined the program in 2006. Since then, she has experienced various demographic changes in the neighborhood surrounding Zia. These changes have resulted in shifts in language knowledge, acquisition, and use in her classroom and in the school. We asked her about these shifts, as well as about her artistic work on behalf of the dual-language teaching community in New Mexico, the statewide dual-language teachers’ Facebook group she established some years ago, how she allocates language use in her classroom, and mo...
2024-06-0136 minLanguage Goes To SchoolGrigori Arrives in America—Again!On this, our first full episode of the podcast, we meet Grigori Grigoriev, the star of the story we told in Episode 0. As a ten-year-old Russian immigrant to the United States in 1996, Grigori found himself enrolled in a 3rd-4th-and-5th grade, Spanish-English, dual-language program in the American Southwest. In this episode, Grigori provides his account of his experiences in that classroom, how he figured out which languages were being used in the classroom, and how he managed to create meaningful learning experiences with his new classmates. We also learn about his life in the ensuing years, up...
2024-05-1536 min
MMA History PodcastJOE STEVENSON -Before the UFC DEEPDIVESend us a text#JoeStevenson #UFC #MMAJoe Stevenson Early Career DEEPDIVE#FiftyFightClub member Joe Stevenson takes the Lytle crew's DEEPDIVE.To this day, Joe "Daddy" works as a coach and keeps a positive outlook on everything he does but he first fought at fifteen years old and we got Joe going on this stroll down memory lane...0:00 Podcast intro0:19 Guest intro and interview start1:13 Joe's martial arts background4:13 Joe Stevenson vs JoeCamacho at ESF 18:13 Tedd Williams Combat...
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