Improving the education of a growing sector of the school population--English language learners (ELLs)--is a pressing unmet need in the nation's current public education system (Gándara 1994; Genesee et al. 2006; Hood 2003). Another urgent educational need is to prepare students to live and work in an increasingly globally connected world. Students should be able to engage in cultural exchanges across the earth, but schools in the United States are not keeping pace with this need (Suárez-Orozco & Sattin 2007). Bilingual education can help meet both these needs. In this article, the author will explain why ELLs should be viewed as an asset rather than a burden and describe how this has been accomplished through two-way bilingual education at her elementary school, the International Charter School in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.