Margo and Andrea, along with their co-authors, Margarita Espino Calderon, Maria G. Dove, Diane Staehr Fenner​, Tonya Ward Singer, Shawn Slakk, Ivannia Soto, Debbie Zacarian

have written this first of its kind collaborative book for both teachers and leaders, whether in small towns or large urban centers, so they can finally have both the research and the practical strategies to take those first steps toward excellence in educating our culturally and linguistically diverse children. It’s a book to be celebrated because it means we can throw away the dark glasses of deficit-based approaches and see children who come to school speaking a different home language for what they really are: learners with tremendous assets.