Mallory Wirth
Mallory Wirth has worked in bilingual education in its various forms for 26 years. She currently serves as the executive director/principal at Dual Language Immersion North County, a small charter school in north San Diego county.
An Honest Look at the Immigrant Experience and the Educators Who Shape It
In Understanding and Improving How K-12 Multilinguals are Taught, Maryann Hasso writes of Maria, a girl from Mexico who recently moved to the United States.
“After another night of sleeping on the tiled kitchen floor, Maria went in for her first day of school,” Hasso writes in the book. “She walked into the front office, where the receptionist greeted her with words she did not understand.”