School and Public Library Partnership: Supporting Multilingual Students and Families
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This article emphasizes the reasons why public schools and public libraries should build partnerships to support multilingual students and their families. The findings from this study show that some of the benefits of such partnerships include increasing awareness of resources that the library provides, literacy improvement, community building, increasing involvement of multilingual families, and attending to students’ needs to name a few.
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Marjeta Bejdo, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Marjeta Bejdo is an accomplished Albanian-American educator located in Seattle, Washington. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education with English Language (EL) and Special Education endorsements from Elmhurst College (now Elmhurst University) in 2017. She then pursued her Master's degree in Teaching and Learning with a focus on Experiential Learning at Clemson University, graduating in 2019. Most recently, she completed her Doctorate in Leadership in Education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell in 2024. In her doctoral work, Marjeta applied improvement science methodologies to boost teacher self-efficacy in fostering literacy among multilingual students, using structured co-planning and equity-minded assessments. As an immigrant and multilingual speaker, she is deeply committed to promoting equitable education for multilingual students, bringing a vital perspective to her advocacy and educational practices.
