A Path Pa’lante! Amplifying Translanguaging Espacios Sin Miedo

The classrooms portrayed in this book show translanguaging in schools as a political act that centers Latinx students’ experiences, knowledge systems, and especially their languaging – the interweaving of tejidos/waves – sin miedo. The teachers understand the need to organize their teaching by opening up spaces for their Latinx students’ translanguaging, rather than simply insisting on the use of named languages that have been assigned to them – Spanish and English. Despite teachers being governed by language education policies that protect the privilege of monolingual-white students, in these classrooms Latinx students could be themselves sin miedo, with their diff erent