Kate Seltzer, PhD

Educational researcher & Teacher Educator - Bi/Multilingual Education

Publications


Books and teaching guides


Translanguaging Perspectives on Writing Development and Pedagogy: Learning from Findings Across Contexts.


Mileidis Gort, Angie Zapata, Kate Seltzer, Margarita Gomez

Emerald, https://www.emerald.com/books/edited-volume/21300/Translanguaging-Perspectives-on-Writing, 2025


The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning


Ofelia García, Susana Ibarra Johnson, Kate Seltzer

Caslon, 2017


Translanguaging: A CUNY-NYSIEB Guide for Educators


Christina Celic, Kate Seltzer

2012


Journal articles


Glimpses of possibility: Decentering the “E” in English language arts juntos


Kate Seltzer, Cati de los Ríos

English Journal, vol. 114(1), 2024, pp. 20-26


Always at the bottom: Ideologies in assessment of emergent bilinguals


Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Kate Seltzer

Journal of Literacy Research, vol. 53(4), 2021, pp. 468-490


"Juntos somos fuertes": Writing participatory corridos of solidarity through a critical translingual approach


Cati de los Ríos, Kate Seltzer, Arturo Molina

Applied Linguistics, vol. 42(6), 2021, pp. 1070–1082


Rejecting abyssal thinking in the language and education of racialized bilinguals: A manifesto


Ofelia García, Nelson Flores, Kate Seltzer, Li Wei, Ricardo Otheguy, Jonathan Rosa

Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, vol. 18(3), 2021, pp. 203–228


“My English is its own rule”: Voicing a translingual sensibility through poetry


Kate Seltzer

Journal of Language, Identity and Education, vol. 19(5), 2020, pp. 297-311


Performing ideologies: Fostering raciolinguistic literacies through role-play in a high school English classroom


Kate Seltzer

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, vol. 63(2), 2019, pp. 147-155


Translating theory to practice: Exploring teachers’ raciolinguistic literacies in secondary English classrooms


Kate Seltzer, Cati de los Ríos

English Education, vol. 51(1), 2018, pp. 49-79


Translanguaging, coloniality, and English classrooms: An exploration of two bicoastal urban classrooms


Cati de los Ríos, Kate Seltzer

Research in the Teaching of English, vol. 52(1), 2017, pp. 55-76


Book chapters and other writing


A translanguaging lens on assessment


Kate Seltzer, Jamie Schissel

Li Wei, Ofelia García, Prem Phyak, The Handbook of Translanguaging, Wiley-Blackwell, 2026, pp. 349-364


Evolving a critical translanguaging stance toward writing with secondary ELA teachers


Kate Seltzer

Mileidis Gort, Angie Zapata, Kate Seltzer Seltzer, Margarita Gomez, Translanguaging Perspectives on Writing Development and Pedagogy: Learning from Findings Across Teaching and Learning Contexts, Emerald, 2025, pp. 195-213


From teaching languages to teaching students: How teachers of bilingual students take up translanguaging theory in practice.


Kate Seltzer, Ricardo Otheguy

Valérie Fialais, Reseda Streb, Guiding Teachers into Bilingual Education: A Bridge between Theory and Practice, The Center for the Advancement of Languages, Education, and Communities, 2025, pp. 39-50


Researcher commentary: Connections with the community and beyond


Kate Seltzer

Tatyana Kleyn, Victoria Hunt, Alcira Jaar, Rebecca Madrigal, Consuelo Villegas, Lessons from a Dual Language Bilingual School: Celebrando una Década de Dos Puentes Elementary, Multilingual Matters, 2024


Translanguaging theory, pedagogies, and future directions from the Global South


Kate Seltzer, Shakina Rajendram, Ofelia García

Nicola Galloway, Ali Fuad Selvi, The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English as an International Language, Routledge, 2024, pp. 138-151


Commentary: Toward a multilingual listener-as-teacher stance in teaching and teacher education


Kate Seltzer

Language Awareness, vol. 32(4), 2023, pp. 574-581


Creating your classroom from the students up: Tapping into students’ translanguaging and raciolinguistic literacies for deep reading


Kate Seltzer, Cati de los Ríos

Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom, Patrick Sullivan, Howard Tinburg, Sheridan Blau, 2nd ed., Peter Lang, 2023, pp. 175-187


Cultivating the critical: Professional development as ideological development for teachers of racialized bi/multilingual students


Kate Seltzer

Foreign Language Teacher Identity: Confronting Ideologies of Language, Race and Ethnicity, Vander Tavares, Silvia Melo-Pfeifer, Wiley-Blackwell, 2023, pp. 105-122


Translanguaging


Cati de los Ríos, Kate Seltzer

Encyclopedia of English Language Arts Education, L. M. Barker, D. Gorlewski, J. Gorlewski, C. Miller, Brill, 2023, pp. 226-233


Toward an Antiracist World Language Classroom: A Translanguaging Approach


Kate Seltzer, Beth Wassell

The Language Educator, 2022, pp. 27-31


Collaborative corridos: Ballads of unity and justice


Cati de los Ríos, Kate Seltzer

Transformative Translanguaging Espacios in Bilingual Education: U.S. Latinx Bilingual Children Rompiendo Fronteras, M. Sánchez, O. García, Multilingual Matters, 2021


Policy Brief: Understanding translanguaging in U.S. literacy classrooms: Reframing bi/multilingualism as the norm


Kate Seltzer, Cati de los Ríos

James R. Squire Office of Policy Research in the English Language Arts, NCTE, 2021


Broadening the view: Taking up a translanguaging pedagogy with all language-minoritized students


Kate Seltzer, Ofelia García

Envisioning TESOL through a Translanguaging Lens: Global Perspectives, Z. Tian, L. Aghai, P. Sayer, J. Schissel, Springer, 2020, pp. 23-42


Fostering bilingual reading identities in dual language bilingual classrooms


Gladys Yaceli Aponte, Ivana Espinet, Kate Seltzer

Translanguaging and transformative Teaching for Emergent Bilingual Students: Lessons from the CUNY-NYSIEB Project, CUNY-NYSIEB, Routledge, 2020, pp. 115-130


The language and literacy practices of emergent bilinguals in a community-based writing program


Stephanie Abraham, Kate Kedley, Kate Seltzer

Literacy Across the Community: Research, Praxis and Trends, L.A. Henry, N.A. Stahl, Taylor & Francis, 2020, pp. 11-23


Translanguaging and early childhood education: Insights from the CUNY-NYSIEB project


Kate Seltzer, Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Gladys Yaceli Aponte

Inclusion, Education and Translanguaging: How to Promote Social Justice in (Teacher) Education?, J.A. Panagiotopoulou, L. Rosen, J. Strzykala, Springer, 2020, pp. 23-39


Translingual writers as mentors in a high school “English” classroom


Kate Seltzer

Plurilingual Pedagogies: Critical and Creative Endeavors for Equitable Language (in) Education, S. Lau, S. Van Viegen, Springer, 2020, pp. 185-204


Biliteracy and translanguaging in dual language bilingual education


Susana Ibarra Johnson, O Ofelia García, Kate Seltzer

Dual language education: Teaching and leading in two languages, D.E. DeMatthews, E. Izquierdo, Springer, 2019, pp. 119-132


Disrupting linguistic inequalities in US urban classrooms: The role of translanguaging


Ofelia García, Kate Seltzer, Daria Witt

The Multilingual Edge of Education, S. Slembrouck, K. Van Gorp, S. Sierens, K. Maryns, P. Van Avermaet, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017, pp. 41-66


Building bridges and navigating turbulent waters: Translanguaging for academic and social-emotional well-being


Kate Seltzer, Brian Collins

Translanguaging with Multilingual Students: Learning from Classroom Moments, O. García, T. Kleyn, Routledge, 2016


The translanguaging current in language education


Ofelia García, Kate Seltzer

Flerspråkighet som resurs [Multilingualism as a resource], B. Kindenberg, Liber, 2016, pp. 19-30


How can bilingual curriculum and instruction support emergent bilingual students' content, language, and literacy learning?


Kate Seltzer, Susana Ibarra Johnson

Common Core and English Language Learners/Emergent Bilinguals: A Guide for All Educators, G. Valdés, K. Menken, M. Castro, Caslon, 2015, pp. 176-177