Participants will learn how to use the Magical Brown Bag and Freeze-Act-Freeze to empower their own students to acquire academic language facility, as well as develop their public speaking voices.The project is contextualized, hands-on, and visual. It will help teachers build community inside the walls of their classrooms, and will serve as a tool to promote biliteracy and inter-cultural exposure and understanding. Participants will be provided with materials, handouts, and prizes to use in their own classrooms.