TY - JOUR AU - Wiemelt, Joseph AU - Welton, Anjale PY - 2015/01/25 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Challenging the Dominant Narrative: Critical Bilingual Leadership (Liderazgo) for Emergent Bilingual Latin@ Students JF - International Journal of Multicultural Education JA - IJME VL - 17 IS - 1 SE - 2015 Special Issue Articles (Peer-reviewed) DO - 10.18251/ijme.v17i1.877 UR - https://ijme-journal.org/index.php/ijme/article/view/877 SP - 82-101 AB - The growing &ldquo;Latinization&rdquo; of the United States is drastically changing the demographics of the students served in PK-12 public schools (Irizarry, 2011). To understand how educational leaders can best serve this changing student demographic, we use Critical Bilingual Leadership, i.e. <em>Liderazgo, </em>to interrogate institutional and structural racism through the use of the testimonios of members of a school community that aim to create a culturally and linguistically responsive school.&nbsp;We found that&nbsp;<em>liderazgo&nbsp;</em>was operationalized across the following themes: dual language programming as the foundation for equity; drawing on experiential knowledge as a strength; fostering relationships through transcaring; and instructional bilingual leadership. &nbsp;<p>&nbsp;</p> <!--EndFragment--> <!--EndFragment--> ER -