Welcome to another non-themed newsletter from the Bilingual Education Interest Section. We are very excited by the articles included in this edition. They represent an interesting and wide-ranging cross-section of theoretical perspectives as well as news and insights into classroom practice that address sociocultural, political, and pedagogical issues related to the BEIS mission statement. For example, in Dantas-Whitney's article we get an inside perspective into teaching practices that promote strong bilingual and biliteracy development in a first-grade bilingual classroom in the United States. From Small and Cripps we hear about innovative technological developments to create a visual online ASL dictionary to support Deaf learners' literacy growth. In Despagne's article we are introduced to some of the issues related to developing a program that will bring indigenous students into a university setting in Mexico while respecting their identities and strengths. In Labrada's article we learn about the development of multilingual policies in a Latin American context. Despagne also brings us a review of a new book by Christine Banfi about bilingual development and education in early childhood.

Furthermore, we are excited by the growing perspective of multilingualism in TESOL that we are working on promoting in the newsletter. In this issue we have three articles that have abstracts in more than one language and one article that is published bilingually―once in English and once in French. We are encouraged by the desire on the part of our contributors to publish their work in more than one language and appreciate their dedication to take the extra time to do this.

All of the articles contained in this edition provide evidence of the important work happening in relation to the development of bilingual and multilingual learners and raise important questions about the ways in which to best support bilingual learners in different language and social contexts. We welcome these contributions to the newsletter as a way to promote further dialogue and hope to include your writing in future issues to add to these conversations.

Please note the call for papers for the themed newsletter edited by Alcione Ostorga. Submissions should be sent to her at aostorga@utpa.edu by the end of October.