Bilingual education helped this 2nd grade classroom thrive after pandemic setbacks

On a recent morning in teacher Geri Ross's classroom at Marion Elementary School, second graders sat at clusters of desks, singing songs and reading stories in Spanish. The walls were decorated with colorful posters depicting letter sounds, math concepts,

and vocabulary in both English and Spanish. After lunch, Ross switched a light at the front of the room from red to blue and sang a new call-and-response song with the students. Read more here