Welcome to WinkWorld. I spent this month on the ranch in South Dakota and have written about it in Prairie Pedagogy. In addition, I am sharing a few websites I have used this month; a quote by Ulibarri; and a small example of some of my writing this month. Happy Reading.

Websites of Interest to Teachers and Families.

District Administration
http://www.districtadministration.com
Check out Dr. Hotlist, which has many online resources for K-12 education.

Teacher College Record
www.TCRecord.org
I find this very useful for researching a wide variety of educational interests.

Why Bilingual Education
www.sdkrashen.com
A concise summary of the research and policy issues by Stephen Krashen

Awesome Library
Organizes the Web with 24,000 carefully reviewed resources.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

Dawn re-discovered a poem by Sabine Ulibarri in Bilingual Education: History, Politics,Theory, and Practice 4/e, by Jim Crawford. For more on this, please visit Jim's website: Language Policy Web Site & Emporium http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD. Dawn used the poem in an adult Sunday School class she is teaching on Linguistic Human Rights. They began with the following Ulibarri poem and then connected the ideas to Freire's writings.

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was made flesh.
It was so in the beginning and it is so today.
The language, the Word, carries within it the history, culture, the
     traditions, the very life of a people, the flesh.
Language is people.
We cannot even conceive of a people without a language, or a      language without a people. The two are one and the same.
To know one is to know the other.