“…Such institutional and societal structures leave little space for problematizing the English-focused culture of schools within an increasingly diverse community of students. Iddings, Combs, and Moll (2012) state, "ELLs are often denied the right to draw on their own social, cultural, and linguistic resources for learning and are thus left educationally stranded" (p. 507). Although research demonstrates that maintaining students' home 2 language is key to the development of additional languages (Cummins, 2005;Law, 2015), and multilingualism is a key component of education in many countries (Commission of the European Communities, 2008) yet, monolingualism is pervasive in U.S. education (Brown, 2011;Caldas, 2006;Law, 2015), and tied to political anti-immigrant ideologies (Borden, 2014;Estep, 2017), especially against Spanish-speaking communities.…”