Tatyana Kleyn
Tatyana Kleyn
 

Media 

 

Interviews

 

Translanguaging, Rounding Up: The Math Learning Center

This podcast addresses ways teachers can take on an asset-focused stance and they invite students to bring their full linguistic repertoire into the classroom. We talk about what translanguaging looks like and how all teachers can integrate the practice into their classrooms.

 
 

Tiempo is a weekly public affairs program in New York City that focuses on Latinx issues. I was a guest on this show with Mariano Muñoz to discuss the Supporting Immigrants in Schools video series and its premiere at The City College of New York.

 
 
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This interview that spans my own immigration and language learning experiences as well as my work with undocumented immigrants in the US and families in Mexico who have returned from the US due to anti-immigrant policies. The piece visually captures my work with families in Oaxaca, a southern state in Mexico.

 
 
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A Passport Stamp Gives Dreamers Hope as Trump Era Looms, New York Times

I have been able to take two classes of CUNY students to study abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico. While learning beyond the classroom walls is always a powerful experience, this article shows the impact of the class on students who were recipients of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals).

 
 
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As Mexican Families Leave U.S. for Home, Film Focuses on the Children, New York Times

This article delves into the film I produced and co-directed, Una Vida, Dos Países [One Life, Two Countries]: Children and Youth (Back) in Mexico. It addressed why the film was created and follows up with a father from one of the featured families who lives in NYC while being separated from his children in Mexico.

 
 
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Bengali Students Need Teachers Who Speak Their Language, NPR/WNYC

Bengali is in the top five languages spoken by students identified as multilingual learners in New York City. In spite of the large number of Bengali students in schools, there are few bilingual programs for them. In this report I address the possible reasons for the shortages of programs as well as bilingual teachers.