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Language 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 min