Episode 4: Formative Assessment and Emergent Bilinguals’ Mathematician Explanations: Informing Teacher Practice

Early career scholar Erin Riley-Lepo is joined by Suzanne Abdelrahim, Margarita Jimenez-Silva, Rachel Restani, and Valeria Zunino-Edelsberg. to discuss their collaboration with math teachers of emergent bilinguals in a large California school district. The conversation focuses on engaging emergent bilingual students in talking about math, the importance of encouraging translanguaging in the classroom, and the essential role the math teachers who participate in the study play in their work.