Unlocking Biliteracy
Strategic biliteracy support for schools and districts
Grounded in the Framework for Biliteracy Foundational Skills and designed for coherent DLBE K–5 implementation.
Working with Schools and Districts
JMB EduResources & Consulting, LLC partners with schools and districts to support coherent biliteracy implementation through professional learning, job-embedded support, and technical assistance.
Structured professional learning focused on biliteracy foundational skills supports educators and leaders in developing a shared understanding of how foundational skills develop across Spanish and English. Grounded in the Framework for Biliteracy Foundational Skills, this work centers on examining the linguistic systems of both languages, understanding how research informs instructional design, and identifying the ways monoliteracy assumptions shape standards interpretation, assessment use, and curriculum materials. Sessions strengthen instructional decision-making and create the conditions for coherent, sustainable K–5 biliteracy implementation.
Professional Development
Job-embedded support provides districts and schools with ongoing, context-specific guidance to translate the Framework into day-to-day biliteracy foundational skills planning and instruction. Through collaborative planning, guided analysis of instructional routines, and targeted coaching, this work supports teachers and leaders in aligning curriculum, instruction, and assessment—strengthening Sequential, Flexible, and Bilingual Foundational Skills while disrupting monoliteracy-based implementation patterns.
Job-embedded Support
Technical Assistance
Technical assistance supports districts in building system-level coherence for biliteracy foundational skills implementation. This work may include program analysis, curriculum and assessment alignment, scope and sequence refinement, and leadership consultation to ensure biliteracy foundational skills are implemented intentionally, efficiently, and in alignment with district goals.
Framework Alignment
All professional learning, job-embedded support, and technical assistance provided through JMB EduResources & Consulting are grounded in the Framework for Biliteracy Foundational Skills, which guides the intentional design and implementation of biliteracy foundational skills across grades K–5.
Biliteracy isn’t built by teaching two languages the same way.
It’s built through intentional design—rooted in the structure of each language, responsive to how children develop literacy across both, and aligned to the purpose of dual language bilingual education.
The Framework for Biliteracy Foundational Skills offers guidance for a critical yet often overlooked component of that vision: the systematic and strategic instruction of foundational skills. It is a K–5 framework designed to support biliteracy foundational skills within a comprehensive dual language bilingual education program—regardless of the program’s language allocation plan.
Grounded in equity, efficacy, and efficiency, the framework helps schools sequence Spanish and English foundational skills across grades and phases, with clear instructional priorities—from early decoding and encoding in Spanish to advanced word analysis and bilingual morphosyntactic fluency.
This is not a curriculum. It is a blueprint for implementing foundational skills instruction that aligns to the structure and intent of biliteracy
Unlocking Biliteracy:
A Framework for Biliteracy Foundational Skills
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“Finally, an author has taken pen (or computer) in hand and developed this critically needed framework that is grounded in research but equally attentive to translating research and theory into practice that is concrete, comprehensive, and spans grades K–5.”