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Interview with Karen Beeman: On the Development of Biliteracy
Q: Tell me about how you got started doing this work.
It’s a personal journey.
Karen beeman bridging veins
I was born in Mexico City. My parents are from the United States and I just have had the great luck and fortune of having exposure to Spanish and English on a daily basis from birth through high school. And that meant I learned how to read and write in Spanish and in English at the same time.
And it was a really smooth, natural thing. Nobody thought it was a big deal.
When I came to the United States for college, the term bilingual was associated with remedial programs and it was a real shock for me especially when I became a Chicago public school teacher in the late ‘80s and the bilingual kids thought that there was something wrong with them because they were in the bilingual program.
That’s certainly where my passion was born in terms of serving and working with children of immigrants and the population of ELLs and really looking at t