Family Biliteracy Program

The purpose of the Family Biliteracy Program (FBP) grant is to promote site-based family biliteracy education. The FBP was created by Dr. Fernando Rodriguez-Valls in 2010 to shed light on the importance of teacher-community partnerships in bridging the linguistic gap between Spanish-speaking migrant parents and their children who are entering an English-only educational system. The FBP creates opportunities for teachers to reflect on and re-evaluate their teaching practices, for parents to value literacy in the home language as well as the school language, and for students to value biliteracy as a relevant skill. The FBP aims to create linguistic equity for [im]migrant families.