Manuel Gomez Portillo: Video Interview

Manuel Gomez Portillo is an ESOL resource teacher in Fairfax County, Virginia who is currently pursuing his doctorate from Shenandoah University.

Student reading out loud from book

Learn more about Indigenous students from Latin America who are enrolled in U.S. schools and why their Indigenous identities, cultures, and languages may remain hidden within the school setting.

Support for families who speak Mixtec

Principal Mark Gaither and special education teacher Katrina Kickbush share the experience of realizing that a significant population of their Mexican families spoke Mixtec, not Spanish.

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