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“A true awakening for all teachers who work with multilingual learners and their families. Ardell passionately defends multilingualism from a personal, collective, and institutional stance. This is a volume that should not sit on a bookshelf but rather inspire you to rethink spaces for infusing multilingualism in your context and join the compelling cause of Disrupting the Monolingual Bias.”
“This book provides vivid examples through metaphors and stories to showcase how biases impact our students of color. It gives educators the tools we need to feel empowered to disrupt inequities and create safe, inclusive, unbiased spaces for our students who sometimes depend on our voices as their only hope of advocacy.”
"As I read Disrupting the Monolingual Bias, I remembered the six-year-old version of me that entered a U.S. schooling system speaking only Spanish. With each page turn, I revisited the linguistic trauma that was inflicted upon me by the educators charged to teach me, in their quest to get me to learn English and assimilate quickly. This book is a must-read for anyone serving culturally and linguistically diverse student communities. By weaving research with the very personal, transparent, and inspiring anecdotes of leaders in our field, Dr.
"Disrupting the Monolingual Bias is engaging and readable. It is often written that culture is what we USE to see but seldom what we ACTUALLY SEE. The same can be said of the monolingual bias in schools. In this book, Dr. Ardell has concretely defined the monolingual bias and then presented in great detail examples of these bias in school contexts, district policies and classrooms, enabling readers to not only SEE monolingual bias but also decide how to address it in school contexts with multilingual learners.
