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In this article, the authors use critical discourse analysis to examine educators' efforts to incorporate funds of knowledge from the communities and families of Punjabi Sikh students. This project took place in a classroom of nine- and ten-year-old ELLs on the west coast of Canada. The project stimulated discussions among the children about why Punjabi was not taught in a school where the majority of the children came to school speaking the language and why there were not more dual-language resources in the school. These results are important and challenge dominant schooling practices. This project also emphasizes the ways in which the use of multimodal technologies opens up classroom space for bilingualism.