Language Goes To School

About Language Goes To School

A podcast about multilingual education in New Mexico and beyond. We invite a wide variety of experts in the field of multilingual education to address theories, practices, policies, and issues related to multilingual education. The primary goal of the podcast is to provide a platform that brings the art and science of multilingual education from the classrooms, where it is practiced, to wider audiences. Your host is David Aram Wilson, a retired K-5 multilingual educator and currently a full-time lecturer at the University of New Mexico, where he educates future multilingual teachers. You can contact us by tapping the Send us Fan Mail in the episode view of your podcast app, or via Facebook and Instagram @languagegoestoschool. Our Gmail address is: languagegoestoschool@gmail.com. Our website is https://languagegoestoschool.buzzsprout.com (https://languagegoestoschool.buzzsprout.com/). You can subscribe to the podcast by tapping Support the Show in the episode view. A $3/month subscription is actually a generous contribution to the show. And please leave us a review in the show view of your app. Final sound mixing by Auphonic.com. Music by E. Grenga, C. Lawry, D. Stevens, M. McMahon/Ionics/RimoMusic. Artwork by Simon Young at Guerrilla Graphix (https://www.guerrillagraphix.com/)

Publisher

A Land of Enchantment Podcast

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Apr 2024

Latest episode

2 May 2026

Latest episodes

36 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 May 2026

   Rafe Martinez: "Signing Up" for English-ASL Dual-Language Education

   Rafe Martinez didn’t become a leader in deaf education in New Mexico because he’s deaf. He’s not. He became a leader in deaf education because his son was born deaf, and Rafe and the rest of the family needed to communicate with him. But Rafe quickly discovered that American Sign Language, or ASL, is not just for deaf students and their families. It’s also for hearing students whose parents are deaf. These students are known as CODA, or Children Of Deaf Adults. Then there are hearing students...

2. 

   1 Apr 2026

   Shooting for the Moon in Baoulé

   Those who don't speak the dominant language of their region as their first language know all too well that language status—and the consequences of it—are real. Without being entirely conscious of it, all societies have developed language hierarchies that place some languages in positions of prestige, at or near the top of the hierarchy, while relegating other languages to positions of subordination, at or near the bottom of the hierarchy. This is most evident in regions where, long ago, a col...

3. 

   1 Mar 2026

   Molly Arévalo: Babel in the Desert

   On this episode of Language Goes to School, we speak with Molly Arévalo, a lifelong educator and language learner, whose journey reflects the complexity of heritage language identity. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Molly was raised in an English-only household in the mainland U.S. She later worked intentionally to reclaim Spanish as an academic, professional, and personal language. She studied Spanish and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz (go Banana Slugs!), refined her Sp...

Who has been a guest on Language Goes To School

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Adrián Sandoval
• Dr Shana Drake-Lavelle
• Maame Adofoah Yamoah

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

34

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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