Biliteracy and Content Area Integrated Preparation (BCAIP), Bridging Teachers, University Educators, and Families for Emergent Bilingual Learning

BCAIP will bring together content area and bilingual authorization preservice teachers, their mentors, content method and language/literacy university educators, and families in solidarity to strengthen teacher preparation for emergent bilingual learning through coursework, field experience, culturally and linguistically sustaining mentorship, and a language and literacies learning lab that all integrate biliteracy with content area learning. BCAIP will employ a quasi-experimental design by comparing participating preservice teachers' teaching to a baseline control group and using fidelity of implementation measures as a covariate to evaluate the program's effectiveness. BCAIP will disseminate the teacher preparation model and tools through a multimedia website for programs across California and nationally to replicate.