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title: CG teacher embraces spanglish in the classroom
description: NEWS:CG teacher embraces the use of Spanglish in her classroom.
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# [CG teacher embraces spanglish in the classroom](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/cg-teacher-embraces-spanglish-in-the-classroom)

 Written by [DSST Public Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/author/dsst-public-schools) | 09/08/21

During her first few years as a teacher, Alexandra Medrano corrected her students for pronouncing certain words improperly or speaking “Spanglish” — a mash-up of Spanish and English. But she noticed that lecturing them didn’t work. Students simply shut down.

[Read the full article in Chalkbeat here](https://co.chalkbeat.org/2021/9/3/22654096/spanglish-english-learners-denver-teacher).

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