Sentences with phrase «language learner programs»

We look forward to hitting the ground running with a number of projects including high school graduation to college success, English language learner programs, and school board candidate voter information when we return in August.

Let's encourage and promote dual language immersion, developmental bilingual programs and early learning dual language learner programs NOW!

There is an opportunity to provide «seed» and «capacity building» funding to our school districts seeking to expand existing dual language immersion or developmental bilingual programs or to establish new dual language immersion or developmental bilingual programs or early learning dual language learner programs.

«We have welcomed over 180 student refugees from Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria and, as you may have guessed, flat funding effects our second language learner programs as well,» Brosnan said.

English language learner programs often face a double challenge: ELL students as a group have unique needs, but not every ELL student is at the same stage of learning, and each student has different needs and abilities.

She has helped establish policies and developed the special education and English language learner programs for School for Integrated Academics and Technologies, a multi-state public charter high school.

Skip Cleavinger, director of English language learner programs, GEO International High School in Bowling Green, Kentucky

The creation of GEO «wasn't really about segregation, it was about the instructional support,» said Skip Cleavinger, director of Warren County's English language learner programs.

Teachers surveyed said the lengthy SBAC test is not developmentally appropriate or fair for students, especially those who are young, in special education or English - language learner programs, come from homes without regular computer access, or come from economically disadvantaged school districts.

Pérsida Himmele has served as an elementary and middle school teacher, a district administrator, an English language learner program consultant, and a public speaker on issues related to student engagement and teaching in diverse classrooms.

In October 2008, at the annual Texas Association for Bilingual Education conference, IDRA's president, Dr. María «Cuca» Robledo Montecel, presented a research - based framework that provides guidance for design, implementation and evaluation of an effective English language learner program.

The commissioner shall also collect data on the number of students enrolled in each charter school who have individual education plans pursuant to chapter 71B and those requiring English language learners programs under chapter 71A.

Not exact matches

The software program involves societal activities to explain to learners in regards to the way of life driving the language they are understanding.

Ivy Hill will gain in English language learners and that program will also expand.

Better alignment of English as a Second Language (ESL) programs with the needs of our English language learners, including expansion of the APPLE model, an alternative high school program for 17 - 18 year - old students to learn the language, graduate, and get a job or go to college.

«By providing free resources such as downloadable eBooks and music, WiFi, public computers, technology classes, materials and lessons for English - language learners, health fairs and programs for job seekers, libraries and librarians are transforming our community each and every day.»

An English language learners pilot program in New York City and the Hudson Valley will receive $ 500,000 to assist teachers to become dual - certified and provide professional development support.

The programs are made available to English - language learners, immigrant students who are native speakers of the second language, and native English speakers.

Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a report from the Council on Great City Schools on Improving the Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.

The city will spend $ 1.8 million for professional development for arts teachers, $ 785,000 to provide arts education for English language learners and special needs students, and $ 220,000 to expand existing student programs like a two - week arts intensive for middle schoolers.

Addressing a question about how best to communicate Common Core curriculum demands to parents of English language learners, Contreras plugged a SCSD program - «Parent University» - that helps parents understand how best to support their children.

Peisner - Feinberg said the report's conclusions are consistent with FPG's comprehensive review of research on young Latino or Spanish - speaking children, which confirmed last year that widely available public programs help dual - language learners make important academic gains.

A new summary of 12 years of research on North Carolina's pre-kindergarten program for at - risk 4 - year - olds shows that «dual - language learners» make the greatest academic progress in the program.

Study results indicate that English - language learners (ELLs) in bilingual / ESL programs perform better in reading and math achievement compared to ELLs in English mainstream programs.

English - language learners make up 17 percent of the student body, and 87 percent of kids are on the free - lunch program.

We have a majority - minority student population, a large group of English - language learners, and almost 60 percent participation in the free or reduced - price lunch program.

K12 students are modestly less likely to participate in the federal free or reduced - price lunch program (40 vs. 47 percent), roughly as likely to be classified as having a learning disability (9 vs. 12 percent), and much less likely to be English language learners (less than 1 vs. 14 percent).

The Word Generation team will continue moving forward, greatly encouraged by the preliminary evidence suggesting the effectiveness of the program, and its particular value for language minority learners.

Four - or eight - week intensive programs provide tools for current and new teachers of Japanese language, with an emphasis on an effective methodology for teaching Japanese to North American learners.

According to Dabbagh (2001), authoring tools are «software tools that enable instructional designers, educators, teachers and learners to design interactive multimedia and hypermedia learning environments without the knowledge of programming languages».

Under the formula, the base student allocation is multiplied by a weighted student enrollment, which includes adjustments for different grade levels, English - language learners, special education students, and those in vocational education programs.

The lawsuit, filed June 11 in superior court in San Francisco, says programs that won't be reviewed include those serving students who are English - language learners, migrants, and neglected, delinquent, or homeless.

Programs like SEAL offer a fresh approach to educating English language learners.

In particular, we know each student's gender, ethnicity, whether they received free or reduced - price lunch through the federal lunch program, whether they were English language learners or received special education services, and their record of suspensions and absences from school.

In some Chinese «bilingual» education programs, for example, the English Learners, all of whom are of Chinese origin, receive some instruction in Mandarin as a foreign language.

«In every class in this building, you have kids of all levels of prior academic achievement,» says Principal Dan St. Louis, including kids who are «high flyers,» kids with Individualized Education Programs who are receiving special education support, students with disabilities, and English - language learners.

After the 20 - week program, both native speakers and English - language learners in the project showed marked growth in vocabulary and reading comprehension.

«Most English - language learners are not doing well in the content areas,» Robin Scarcella, the director of the English - as - a-second-language program at the University of California, Irvine, said...

At his first post-Ed School job, Sagolla worked at the MIT Media Lab's Future of Learning project with Seymour Papert, the person whose LOGO programming language first awoke a teenaged Sagolla's inner learner.

Federal, state, and district level English Language Learner program entry and exit requirements: Effects on the education of language minority learners.

There hasn't been a comprehensive study of the technologies teachers are using to aid K - 12 English - language learners, but educators strongly recommend individual computer programs and other technologies because they say they accelerate the acquisition of phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and reading - comprehension skills and other language building blocks.

Urban, public focus — L&L fieldwork takes place in the Cambridge Public Schools, where you will learn from innovative programs in place for English language learners, bilingual students, and students identified with learning disabilities.

Yet, much of that work depends on a simple, often unstated, assumption: that the short list of control variables captured in educational data systems — prior achievement, student demographics, English language learner status, eligibility for federally subsidized meals or programs for gifted and special education students — include the relevant factors by which students are sorted to teachers and schools.

For the hundred or so kids in the school's Multilingual Academy (for English - language learners) and Folklorico programs, though, everything changes when the second - period bell rings.

The report recommends that schools establish professional - development programs that train teachers to work with parents of English - language learners, and create parent - involvement programs specifically for such parents.

We also serve a high percentage of special education students relative to other district schools, and currently house the district - wide program for beginning and intermediate English language learners.

States vary widely in how much of their own money — if any — they allot to English - language - learner programs to supplement federal funding.

It can be hard for academically advanced English - language learners to show what they can do before they have mastered the language, and new evidence suggests they are underrepresented in gifted programs in nearly every state.

That's in part because schools» accountability for the progress that English - learners make in learning the language is now integrated into Title I, the federal program under which the performance of all other students is scrutinized.

In criticizing the federal regulation, for example, Weingarten claimed that «the flawed framework... will punish teacher - prep programs whose graduates go on to teach in our highest - needs schools, most often those with high concentrations of students who live in poverty and English language learners.»