Our Mission
Who We Are
As former teachers and school leaders in Spanish dual language immersion programs, we saw firsthand how powerful bilingual education can be and how easily partner language development can be unintentionally sidelined as English takes over.
Grounded in research and classroom experience, we created an approach that puts intentional language development back at the center of instruction without compromising academic outcomes. That work became addalingua, designed to empower educators to strengthen bilingualism, honor all languages, and cultivate global empathy because we believe dual language immersion has the power to change the world.
Grounded in research and classroom experience, we created an approach that puts intentional language development back at the center of instruction without compromising academic outcomes. That work became addalingua, designed to empower educators to strengthen bilingualism, honor all languages, and cultivate global empathy because we believe dual language immersion has the power to change the world.
Learning another language is not just learning different words for the same things. It is learning different ways to think about things.
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Our Team
Pamela Ratti
Chief Executive Officer
Jessica De Molder
Chief Technology Officer
Camellia Hill
Chief Product Officer
Lindsay Kuipers
Customer Success & Marketing Manager
The addalingua Approach
Our Why
To promote higher levels of bilingualism and biliteracy at no cost to English language development
To counteract the tendency toward overuse of English that undermines the goal of bilingualism and biliteracy
To shift the norm in U.S. education that has traditionally penalized learners who enter school speaking languages other than English