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Alain Bengochea

@bengochea.bsky.social
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Associate Professor @UNLV researching emergent bilingualism in early & middle childhood. Proud son of immigrant parents. 🇨🇺🇻🇪 Miami native. he/él/il 🏳️‍🌈 www.researchgate.net/profile/Alain-…

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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Happy to share a new publication! Some tidbits: We found a serious shortage of infant/toddler care in NV. Programs taking subsidies were more likely to serve infants, while staffing and cost barriers limited recruitment despite family need. Temporary COVID funds helped sustain or expand care.
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Access to early care and education for Nevada’s infants and toddlers: A mixed methods examination of program characteristics and the role of COVID stabilization funds
The earliest years of life, particularly through children' s third year of life, are the single most consequential for development, and interactions t…
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
So proud to share this story about Project PUEBLO at UNLV. Watching teachers transform classrooms for multilingual students has been amazing. www.ktnv.com/news/unlv-pr...
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UNLV program helps Clark County teachers support English language learners
Clark County teachers receive specialized training at UNLV through Project Pueblo to support English language learners using multilingual approaches.
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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
State school finance reforms designed to close funding gaps between high- and low-income districts did not reduce racial and ethnic funding inequities and in some cases increased them, according to new research published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. www.aera.net/Newsroom/Sta...
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
CCSD Teachers, we are recruiting for Project PUEBLO—a 1-year accelerated M.Ed. in English Language Learning starting Fall 2025. -Earn your ELAD endorsement -Partial scholarship (covers 1/3 of tuition) -Apply by June 15, 2025 Apply or share w/a colleague! Flyer & info: tinyurl.com/54uu4sm7
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If you have research dependent on these data here is my suggestion 1/N Big picture: Create a dataset of cell means (cells must be big enough to pass disclosure) - load these cell means into many, many tables & put through review -These cell means can then be used in OLS - which runs on means
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Our College of Ed at UNLV is hiring for an asst. prof. position in early/elementary literacy! #acdademia #highereducation #studentpartnership #academic #academicjobs #jobs #education www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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Assistant Professor in Early/Elementary Literacy Education, College of Education [R0146186] - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
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Maureen Kearney @maureenmkearney.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The proportion of Nevada's emergent bilinguals (#ELLs) is double the national average. Yet here we are.... For more info: tinyurl.com/53nm5tzp #ccsd #nevada
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Great to see Project PUEBLO get a shoutout at the Review Journal and the recognition of the need for dual language programs. www.reviewjournal.com/local/educat... #ccsd #duallanguage
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Why CCSD struggles to support English learners
Why CCSD struggles to support English learners
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
In our 2-day third annual UNLV College of Education Project PUEBLO mini-conference event, 100 teacher leaders presented on ways they intend to advocate, shape policy, and build school capacity to enhance support for emergent bilinguals. @unlv.bsky.social
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Post LAST sentence of LAST article: "In general, expanded financial investment in high-quality, affordable early care & education (ECE) that meets the needs of children & families from diverse backgrounds is essential to breaking down systemic barriers to equitable ECE access." tinyurl.com/yzhr66xz
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A Nationwide Multidimensional Examination of Early Care and Education Access: Links Between Access Profiles, Equitable Enrollment, and Public Funding Policies: Early Education and Development: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
We’re here to help
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Hot off the press! Colleagues & I conducted a nationwide multidimensional examination of early care & education access, revealing 3/4 of ECE centers were characterized by meeting 0 dimensions of access, suggesting a critical need for policy action to expand families' access. tinyurl.com/yzhr66xz
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A Nationwide Multidimensional Examination of Early Care and Education Access: Links Between Access Profiles, Equitable Enrollment, and Public Funding Policies: Early Education and Development: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
We’re here to help
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
UNLV College of Education Zeiter Literacy Center is offering a Professional Development Series focused on supporting multilingual learners with or at risk for having learning disabilities. See more info below. To register:
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
It was great to be a part of today's conversation with @SenCortezMasto regarding her bill, Reaching English Learners Act, aiming to better fund teacher preparation programs focusing on emergent bilinguals. #ccsd
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
Interesting stats regarding Europeans' views of multilingualism. Wonder how we compare in the US 🤔
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
Percentage of US faculty within the ranks of Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor by race
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
To my fellow first-gen graduates.... #unlv
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
In our 2-day second annual @unlvcoe PUEBLO mini-conference event, 95 teacher leaders presented on ways they intend to advocate, shape policy, and build school capacity in the efforts to better support emergent bilinguals. Thankful for this partnership with @ClarkCountySch
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
Wonderful sharing our team's work, which highlighted elementary and secondary teachers' shifts toward a translanguaging-as-resource orientation in their conceptualizations of translanguaging, self-efficacy, and current practices . #AERA2024 @AERA_BerSig
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Just found this relic hidden in an old resume portfolio. My name tag when I first interviewed to become a teacher in the Bronx as a NYC teaching fellow in 2006. 🥹 some of the best years #nycteachingfellow
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
Co-presented our study “Monolingual & multilingual in-service teachers’ conceptualization of translanguaging pedagogy in a teacher preparation program” at #AAAL2024 with the fab @DrSab_Sembiante
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Excited our mixed-method study on translanguaging beliefs and practices in English-medium settings was accepted to #aera24! This study uniquely captures the perspectives of educators across grades and in varying content areas.
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
A true pleasure discussing & learning from teachers and fellow advocates of multilingual students on ways we could/should make students’ home languages more visible in policies & instruction, moving away from a monolingual/English-only lens. #nvedsummit23
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 30/06/2023
Exciting 2 see #ProjectPUEBLO highlighted: @UNLVCoE's #ELL master's program focuses on importance of policy, advocacy, & leveraging emergent bilinguals' home languages ~300 #CCSD teachers will receive their ELAD endorsement to better support bilinguals
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 05/05/2023
In day 2 of the inaugural PUEBLO mini-conference, teacher leaders presented on ways they intend to advocate, shape policy, and build school capacity in the efforts to better support emergent bilinguals.
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 04/05/2023
In day 1 of the inaugural PUEBLO mini-conference, teacher leaders presented on ways they intend to advocate, shape policy, and build school capacity in the efforts to better support emergent bilinguals. Only 1/4 of our graduating first cohort is pictured. So proud of this group.
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 27/04/2023
My family and I (including our 2 dogs) were included in our dear friend @jmenendezillu's illustrations in the upcoming children's book titled "Skyscraper Babies" How cool is that!
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 13/04/2023
A joy to present our work #aera2023 with @DrSab_Sembiante & Catherine Restrepo. This study revealed how DLBE teachers engaged in sustainable #translanguaging pedagogy to protect the vulnerable language, Spanish, in show-and-tell.
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 25/03/2023
Always wonderful to share our #multimodal research, this time focusing on narrative retells. #SRCD2023 #SRCD23 @DrSab_Sembiante
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 01/02/2023
Excited to share new pub with @DrSab_Sembiante published in @rev_of_edu : “A review of the methodological characteristics of #vocabulary interventions for emergent bilinguals in preschool to sixth grade.” Access it here:
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 09/01/2023
Excited 2 share our article led by @DrSab_Sembiante titled "Sustainable #translanguaging pedagogy in support of the vulnerable language: honoring children’s ways of ‘Showing’ and ‘Telling’ in early childhood #duallanguage #bilingualeducation" Free eprint:
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 02/12/2022
Just published in Journal of #EarlyChildhood Literacy with @DrSab_Sembiante: "Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers’ transmodality in a dual language bilingual education preschool classroom" #multimodality #translanguaging #bilingual
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 09/07/2022
Recognizing that Latines make up less than 5% of tenured faculty and under 6% of tenure-track faculty at doctoral institutions, 20 universities incl. #UNLV have committed to doubling the number of Latine PhD students and professors by 2030.
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 23/04/2022
Excited to present "Multimodal Depth-of-Vocabulary Instruction: A cross-genre analysis of a preschool teacher's vocabulary instruction in Spanish read alouds" alongside @DrSab_Sembiante. Join us at 9:45am #AERA22 #BERSIG
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 14/02/2022
One of my favorite people (Beth Harry) has published the 3rd edition of her groundbreaking ethnographic study, “Why are so many students of color in special education: Understanding race and disability in schools." Available this summer.
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 01/11/2021
Received great news that @DrSab_Sembiante and I will be presenting our paper "Multimodal depth of vocabulary instruction: A cross-genre analysis of a preschool teacher's vocabulary instruction in Spanish read alouds" at #aera2022 this spring!
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 06/10/2021
Our baby boy. Luca Bengochea-Tejero born on October 2nd. @principaltejero
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 21/09/2021
Hot off the press! Some wonderful people (@mavalos_miami, Irina Malove, Susan Massey)) & I co-authored an article titled "Building on ELA Vocabulary Instruction to Develop Language Resources" in the The Reading Teacher.
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 20/09/2021
So wonderful to have a conversation with one of my favorite artists and children’s book authors, @jmenendezillu. & talk about our experiences as bilingual teachers in NYC & how her bilingual books could be used to leverage chilfren’s culture & languages
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 23/06/2021
Nevada is among the top five states furthest from meeting their projections for English learner (EL) teachers. We need to do better. #ccsd #nevadaeducation #nvleg #ell
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 12/05/2021
Congratulations to the newly minted principal of Ollum Elementary, @alex_tejero1! I am so proud of his determination to get there & excited that people will get to see what I’ve known all along. Thrilled to see the impact of his leadership on students & the surrounding community!
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 10/04/2021
Excited to be presenting our paper "Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers' transmodality in a dual language preschool classroom" with @DrSab_Sembiante & Dr. Mileidis Gort at #AERA2021 #AERA21BERSIG
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 03/03/2021
Taking "holistic understanding of bilingualism to be true, then it is vital that...educators consider ways of moving beyond binaries of language separation 2 leverage Ss’ entire linguistic repertoires." PIE framework 2 implement translanguaging pedagogies
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 21/02/2021
Delighted to share our policy paper titled "The viability of #bilingualeducation in #Nevada" in which we discuss the current context and provide recommendations for policymakers and districts: #CCSD #ELLs #bilingual #unlv
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 15/01/2020
New publication with @DrSab_Sembiante titled “Want me to show you?”: Emergent #bilingual #preschoolers’ #multimodal resourcing in show-and-tell activity. Free access for first several downloads:
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 06/01/2020
Just published with @DrSab_Sembiante! Attracting & Responding to an Audience: #Preschoolers’ #Multimodal Composing in Show-and-Tell Activity in @ncte's @LangArtsNCTE Free access: 1/2
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 23/12/2019
“Being a first-generation student means that you can’t rely on family members to teach you about university life... You have to be proactive and intentional about figuring out information that continuing-generation students arrive knowing or can access...”
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 15/11/2019
First visit in the Dept. of Ed!
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 02/11/2019
Dr. Joseph (@profnicolej) from Vanderbilt leads a discussion on integrating academic language in mathematics with our final cohort for Project #E3UNLV. These teacher leaders in #ELL #education come from @ClarkCountySch, @Humboldtunified, & @carsonscholars.
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Alain Bengochea @bengochea.bsky.social · 18/05/2019
Graduating our first cohort of project E3 teacher leaders #unlv @unlvcoe
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