Dayna Hillcrest has a Master of Teaching from Hamline University and is currently working toward an ESL K-12 license to add to her World Language K-12: Spanish license. Her 10 years of teaching experience includes teaching English to adults in Germany and teaching Spanish and ESL to students ranging from K to 12th grade in charter and public schools in Minnesota. She currently teaches at Princeton District 477. Dayna’s master work, called A Professional Development Program to Improve Reading Comprehension for Secondary Students, demonstrates her passion for helping students improve their reading proficiency.
Academic benefit of translanguaging
The following work builds an argument for translanguaging by looking…