I find this description of translanguaging to be a very good one because translanguaging does not limit or isolate language and rather it sees it as a collection of linguistic abilities that can be used in unison to express meaning and feeling. Being worded as an "active negotiation of language" is such an interesting way to put it because as somebody who translanguages every single day, it sounds like a good way to express the idea that the two languages aren't competing, but are instead flowing in our brains and bargaining depending on the situation or circumstance that we find ourselves in.

This is a great point that I never put much mind into and it seems like something that would require time to plan and prepare. I wonder how many schools actually allow for things like this to happen. Of course you could take it upon yourself, but it would really depend on the administration and how flexible thet are with changing or using new assessment tools.

This is such a great point because it seems that most of the time curriculums are focused mostly on fantasy when it comes to teaching about diverse cultures. Most of the texts are not really immersive into what society and daily life looks like for all people. It does make it a bit difficult to make connections to other cultures when all we know about them are stories and folktales.

This is a really important outcome that students should have and realize by the time they move on from the early elementary years and this is because even at a young age many students feel the pressure from friends and sometimes their own families that they must like and accept all of their group identities. For the most part this is not an issue, however many students will tend to try to act different or change/ hide things about themselves as to fit in and this can be negative because it does not allow them to be fully themselves.

This is an interesting point to note because despite the best efforts of those who create the standards based on the use of both qualitative and quantitative measures to assess text complexity, there is still someone or a group of people behind picking these texts. "Professional Judgment" is a very interesting phrase to use because it seems so vague because that judgement can vary drastically within the state.