Sentences with phrase «emerging bilinguals»

Take the charter schools requirements to enroll representative populations of emerging bilingual students and students with disabilities and the reduction of racial and ethnic isolation.

How can we ensure that emerging bilingual students develop English proficiency and strong academic skills while they maintain and develop literacy in their home language?

Third, the size of the dots correspond to the percentage of emerging bilingual children (crudely labeled as «English Language Learners» by the State).

Particularly for emerging bilinguals, language assessments alone may not reflect meaningful information about a child's learning potential.

Closing the opportunity gap for Language Minority (LM) students begins by approaching these students as emerging bilinguals and building on the language strengths they bring to school.

Teachers from districts such as Northside and Harlandale said the money is needed to hire additional staff to help tutor emerging bilinguals and get them caught up with their English - dominant peers, especially as the more rigorous state accountability system continues to unearth achievement gaps.

They express a fixed, misinformed mindset about what emerging bilingual children are capable of and therefore, expectations are lowered without any additional support.

The question becomes even more urgent when asked by a teacher who is committed to being a No - Nonsense Nurturer that holds high academic expectations for 100 % of their students but who may not have had formal training in how to support emerging bilingual children.

Located in or near a midsize city, participating schools served student populations that were higher than the district average in the number of students who received free and reduced - price lunch (ranging from 33 to 59 %), were emerging bilingual learners (ranging from 8 to 52 %), and were from racial or ethnic minorities (ranging from 32 to 71 %).

Perhaps your next step is to learn about making instruction comprehensible for emerging bilinguals.

Ideally, we will all continue to be committed to holding high expectations for all students, including emerging bilingual students, who will learn to leverage two languages and often two cultures with our encouragement and support.

First and foremost, the new law replaces the term «Limited English Proficient students» with «English learners,» indicating a shift away from deficit - oriented perspectives of emerging bilingual students.

As my Choice Watch report (Cotto & Feder, 2014) demonstrated, charter schools in Connecticut tend to serve a relatively more advantaged group of (mostly) Black and Latinx children including fewer children with disabilities, emerging bilingual children, and children eligible for free and reduced priced meals compared to the students in local public schools in the same cities as the charter schools.

Therefore, to be a learner of language is to not just be an EL, an emerging bilingual or a multilingual learner, but also to be a cultural mediator, a symbol decoder, a truth - finder.

For example, Bridgeport Public Schools enrolled children that were 99 % eligible for FRPM and 12.6 % emerging bilingual (ELL).

Wanda is the former principal of DC Bilingual Public Charter School which ensures high academic achievement for all its emerging bilingual students, those learning Spanish or English as a second language while embracing all cultures.

The first step is to begin by understanding what it means to be an «emerging bilingual student.»

In this podcast, Dr. Bernadette Musetti shares benefits of bilingualism, programs or innovations in education that move emerging bilingual students forward and common myths or misconceptions about teaching emerging bilinguals and English learners.

All three school choice programs tend to have a lower percentage of children with disabilities and emerging bilingual students (ELL) when compared to their local school district averages.