... their language at all. And I invite them, even though we’re not a bilingual school, I invite them to share with me, or teach me, the word for “please come in” or “please sit down” or “how can I help you?” Little gestures and conversational language that I can have with them in their languages, they teach me.
I invite a lot of language and English. I have a lot of patience with the children to code switch and put it into perspective.