2025 MABE Dual Language Bilingual Education Conference

This presentation will share the findings of a recent study conducted regarding students’ sense of belonging in a Spanish-English dual language immersion program. Results illuminate students’ views on contributors to their sense of belonging in school, such as teacher care and separation of language, among others. TWBI teachers and administrators will learn about classroom practices and a program model that together can potentially resist the typical decrease in Latin@ students’ sense of belonging within TWBI programs at the upper elementary/middle school levels. TWBI bilingual and monolingual staff will also learn about translanguaging practices in grades 3-6 that impact belonging.