As many of our users know from the homepage of the TPS Teachers Network, a writer named Meg Medina is currently serving as the Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I was poking around Meg Medina's Library pages today, and there I found many resources for teachers of ELL students, especially ELL students who speak Spanish.

You can find news releases, blog posts, podcasts, and more. You can access Medina's entire bibliography of children's and young adult books and work toward getting them into your school or classroom libraries. 

The page of External Resources is also of value. I listened to one "Latina to Latina" podcast hosted by Alicia Menendez, whom you might know from her work as a weekend anchor for MSNBC. That one interview was titled "How Meg Medina Summoned the Courage to Write," and like many of the materials on the Meg Medina pages, I found culturally relevant examples worthy of sharing with immigrant children in our classrooms. Here's a single quote:  

"The trauma of losing your country doesn't happen without consequences."

There is so much in this single podcast that our students can relate to! 

I hope members of the Culturally Relevant Pedagogy group will find resources of interest to their students. (i think I'll share this post over in the Teaching English Language Learners group, too.)

If you find anything you'd like to highlight from Meg Medina's pages, please share in the comments! 

Meg Medina, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, 2023-24

Photo credit: Scott Elmquist

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