Discover the inner workings of schools that successfully serve multilingual students. They do this through school-wide initiatives that include developing students' home languages, recruiting community members to mentor students, establishing positive and respectful climates, and providing rigorous instructional interventions.

Althier M. Lazar is a professor of teacher education at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt is professor emerita of education at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. They are co-editors of Practicing What We Teach: How Culturally Responsive Literacy Classrooms Make a Difference.