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Meet the Experts: Juliana Urtubey

Juliana Urtubey, the 2021 National Teacher of the Year and Nevada's 2021 Teacher of the Year, discusses the challenges and opportunities of teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, offers ideas for engaging multilingual families from a distance, and shares her personal story about coming from Colombia as a child to the U.S.
By: NEA + Colorín Colorado
Published: August 2021

Juliana Urtubey is the 2021 National Teacher of the Year and Nevada's 2021 Teacher of the Year. She is a bilingual hybrid teacher and special education instructional strategist in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Below, she discusses the challenges and opportunities of teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, offers some ideas for engaging multilingual families from a distance, and shares her own personal story about coming from Colombia as a child to the U.S.

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