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15 Hmong language teachers become first to get accredited, Karen and Somali language next
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We’re seeing more school districts across Minnesota starting to provide, Hmong, Somali and Karen language classes. But there hasn’t been the infrastructure to teach those classes until now,
Fifteen recently graduated teachers are the first in the state to be licensed to teach Hmong as a heritage language. And the next cohort includes the first Somali and Karen teachers to be licensed.
It’s something that isn’t happening anywhere else in the world. One of the driving forces behind the licensure program and curriculum development is the organization Minnesota Zej Zog. The organization’s executive director Pang Yang and curriculum professor at University of Wisconsin - Whitewater Jenna Cushing-Leubner joined to talk about why and how they created a licensure program.
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