Dual Language Foundational Program

Inquiry By Design's one-of-a-kind secondary dual language curriculum introduces essential pedagogy in ways that are supportive, clear and that can be scaled to work. Like all students, multilingual learners deserve opportunities to engage in rich, challenging work that develops their reading, writing, and speaking and listening skills in a positive, inquiry-based environment.

Inquiry By Design offers a multi-unit supplemental curriculum for instruction that

Incorporate strategies for building writing fluency, vocabulary, and genre-based writing.

Introduce essential pedagogy in ways that are supportive, clear and that can be scaled to work with longer texts.

Provide models of curriculum clearly aligned to Biliteracy Framework and standards

Unit Texts That Connect

We deliberately include texts from authors who invite the reader into more personal experiences.

The American Invasion of Macún

by Esmeralda Santiago

Forbidden Fruit

by Bich Minh Nguyen

The Day the Cisco Kid Shot John Wayne

by Nash Candelaria

War Years

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Asset-based Dual Language Curriculum.

Because all multilingual students

  • Come to class equipped with cultural and linguistic resources that are rich and varied.

  • Are ready for and deserve research-based teaching and learning experiences that leverage these assets.

Authentic and meaningful literacy support for multilingual learners.

You want a Dual Language program that builds student agency. We do too.

Drop us a line and let's figure out how we can tackle it together.