Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston, MA, was founded in 2012 with the mission of providing full cultural and linguistic fluency in Spanish and English for all of its students. The school’s development of its “Portrait of a Scholar” project led to a number of changes focused on providing greater opportunities for student voice and participation. The pandemic paused that work, but the experiences of remote learning ultimately reaffirmed the school’s vision. This innovation profile focuses on the pause and what came after: how the Muñiz Academy community came together at the beginning of the pandemic, how it evolved during remote learning, and what it is moving forward into the future.

Citation: Parker, C.E., & Shibre, E. (2021). Think Forward New England: Profiles of Innovation | Margarita Muñiz Academy. Retrieved from https://crpe.org/profiles-of-innovation-margarita-muniz-academy/

Related Project: Think Forward New England: New England’s Education Systems Navigate COVID-19 and Map a New Way Forward

Topics: Bilingualism Brief Research Resource Systems change Translanguaging