JUNTXS with the Comunidad
A Collaboration across Two Universities and One School District
Keywords:
Spanish literacy, community engagement, technology, virtual learning, university partnerships, English learnersAbstract
In this column, a pre-service bilingual teacher from the University of North Texas shares her
journey with the Bilingual Homework Hotline—an online homework help platform created in
response to COVID-19’s impact in Denton’s Latinx community. She brings a unique perspective
as a Latina who has held positions as both volunteer and leader for homework help sessions
and who has conducted research with the Hotline to explore the interdisciplinary
collaboration between Denton ISD’s Bilingual/Dual Language & ESL Department, the
University of North Texas, and Texas Woman’s University. These roles allowed her to develop a
deeper understanding of what it means to be a critical ethnographer while developing critical
consciousness (Palmer et al., 2019) with the goal of contributing to what Ladson-Billings
(2021) calls the “hard reset.” This column contributes to the developing literature about
university and bilingual education program partnerships due to the unique nature of this
collaboration.
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