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A diverse and multilingual state, 麻豆无码版 is home to more than 100 languages and officially recognizes 23 麻豆无码版 Native languages (Inupiaq, Siberian Yupik, Central 麻豆无码版n Yup'ik, Cup'ig, Alutiiq, Unanga/Cx, Dena'ina, Deg Xinag, Holikachuk, Koyukon, Upper Kuskokwim, Gwich'in, Upper Tanana, Sahcheeg xut'een xneege', Benhti Kokhwt'ana Kenaga', Tanacross, H盲n, Ahtna, Weta艂, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian) and English. Around one quarter of families in the Anchorage School District speak a language other than English at home, with the five most common languages being Filipino, Hmong, Samoan, Spanish, and Yu鈥檖ik. For our students, multilingualism is a fact of life and a source of cultural and cognitive strength.

Multilingualism promotes critical awareness of language and builds social cohesion across the globe. While language has sometimes been used as a tool for erasure and division, sharing our linguistic practices, dialects, and vernaculars helps us understand each other, and ourselves better. Different languages offer different conceptualizations of the world, different perspectives, and different frameworks. Encouraging students to share their particular linguistic experiences in the context of a multilingual classroom creates a space for all participants to cultivate their multilingual identities and share their knowledge of a lived multilingualism.

In a time when the official designation of English as the national language threatens to erase the linguistic diversity that strengthens our classrooms and our communities, we affirm our commitment to honoring all languages, identities, and histories.