Sentences with phrase «of dual immersion»

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Accredited by the German Government and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), the GISSV offers a dual - immersion program that follows ambitious curricula, focusing on science and social studies as well as arts and sports.

If, for example, you decide to enroll your child in a dual language immersion school, it may require a bit of a drive.

Kate Menken, associate professor of linguistics at the City University of New York, says New York City parents «see dual immersion as an alternative to gifted and talented programs.»

It's likely that dual immersion will remain a popular and high - quality option, but the shortage of bilingual teachers will limit its reach.

Miami - Dade superintendent Alberto Carvalho wants to stop teaching 30 minutes of Spanish a day in elementary school — nobody learns much — and offer a rigorous, intensive dual - immersion program for students with grade - level skills.

«Within three blocks of my house, kids are attending at least six different public elementary schools,» said Hewson, who found that many parents she knew were opting for schools with stronger performance or special features like dual - language immersion.

Soon after, and as part of a broader school - board decision to expand school - choice options, the district launched a science and technology middle school, a dual - language immersion elementary, an all - digital high school, an arts - centered grade school, a virtual school starting at grade 3, and more.

Leslie has experience coordinating a Dual Immersion Program, working as a district instructional technology coach, teaching Spanish and providing professional development in the areas of Second Language Acquisition and Technology integration.

This fact sheet analyzes the state's supply of bilingual teachers in light of the expected increase in bilingual and dual - language immersion programs.

Enter Oakland SOL, a new dual - immersion middle school in the Flatlands section of Oakland, California — and the city school district's first new school in more than a decade.

Developing students to be bilingual and biliterate is a primary goal of dual language immersion programs.

With the Voices dual - immersion model, students receive 80 % of instruction in Spanish and 20 % in English starting in kindergarten.

For over 25 years, Oya No Kai has been impacting the education of students in the Japanese Dual Language Program of Portland Public Schools (also known as the Japanese Immersion Program).

Last Monday, as our sun was being eclipsed by our moon, another sun was born: OUSD opened a brand new dual - language immersion middle school called Oakland School of Language, shortened to Oakland SOL.

DC Bilingual implements an innovative dual immersion Spanish and English learning program for all students, regardless of home language.

Even though various dual language immersion schools suffer from high attrition rates, 95 % of the families currently enrolled will be staying with DC Bilingual even as they are in the process of relocating this summer.

In honoring Castrejón, the foundation will donate $ 10,000 to Language Academy of Sacramento (LAS), a K - 8 dual language immersion charter school focused on historically underserved populations.

It would effectively repeal Prop. 227, giving parents the option of enrolling their children in bilingual education or dual immersion programs.

New York City, Portland, Houston and Washington D.C. have expanded dual immersion offerings in recent years, and districts across California are now poised to take advantage of the model after voters overturned the state's bilingual education ban late last year.

CEDAR CITY — As the school year opened for students in the Iron County School District on Thursday, East Elementary School began its third year of offering a dual immersion program for Spanish and English.

In just the past couple of weeks I have had the honor of visiting Yu Ming Charter School, an awesome dual - immersion Mandarin - English program in Oakland, City Charter School and Global Education Academy, two terrific charter schools serving different neighborhoods in Los Angeles, and Desert Trails Charter School, a great new school started under a recent Parent Trigger campaign in Adelanto.

The Jerome, Idaho, School Districts offers kudos to the Utah State Board of Education for its assistance with Jerome's dual immersion program.

As practiced at many districts, dual immersion means that English along with one other language is used daily in the classroom where students are also usually a mix of native English speakers and non-English speakers.

«This group of children and parents are incredibly committed to Chinese dual language immersion.»

Meanwhile, schools have adapted and increasingly found ways to provide a greater range of instruction in foreign languages typically by offering dual immersion programs.

«We are really excited to have them move on,» said Jamie Leite, the instructional coach for dual language immersion in Provo City School District and the director of the state's Portuguese dual language immersion program.

She says offering Utah's innovative and internationally lauded Dual Immersion program in all of its elementary schools means students may continue to attend their neighborhood school while having access to a program of choice.

Jimell Sanders, a Houston parent and co-founder of the nonprofit DC Language Immersion Project, said there is growing demand for dual - language programs in D.C., with as many as five kids on the waiting list per available slot.

With the escort of two French - speaking fifth graders, Araud visited five dual immersion classrooms with students ranging from first to fifth grade.

Learn more about Utah's Dual Immersion program on our website or contact Utah State Office of Education World Language Specialist Gregg Roberts at [email protected] for more information.

A Qualitative Study of Dual Language Immersion Education in Southern New Mexico.

If your system includes «dual immersion» classes where students hear their native language 75 % of the time, where other EL students engage in only 30 minutes of daily English Language Development classes, and where regular classroom teachers use a self - selected potpourri of instructional strategies for EL students, of course it will take up to 8 years for our EL students to learn English!

In this meeting, the Utah State Board of Education: Viewed a video on the growth and student successes in Utah's dual immersion programs, which are now operating in 47 schools throughout the state.

The second winner of OYEA, Liliana Aguas, is a 2nd grade dual - language immersion teacher at Leconte Elementary School in Berkeley, Calif..

The district has committed to expanding the program to all four of its elementary schools to further its vision for neighborhood schools, says Ellie Gallagher, the district's Dual Immersion program coordinator.

Louise Crook is a fourth - grade teacher at Sage Creek Elementary in Springville in the Nebo School District working on the English side of the school's dual immersion program.

The Role of Teacher - Talk in a Dual Language Immersion Third Grade Classroom.

Dual Language Immersion is at the foundation of our educational philosophy at John C. Daniels.

Perceptions of principals and teachers in New Mexico: A comparison between staff in schools with two - way dual language immersion programs and those with other bilingual programs.

Cambridge, MA and Framingham, MA — Ten years after a contentious English - only law that effectively banned bilingual education in Massachusetts» public schools, a handful of culturally and linguistically integrated dual immersion schools provide a hopeful contrast to a largely disappointing «English - only» mandate.

Located in one of the largest Spanish - speaking communities in Southern California, El Sol Science and Arts Academy is a dual - immersion charter school in Santa Ana.

This bill is sponsored by CABE and Californians Together in response to feedback from educators that additional resources are required for our school districts to expand or establish new dual language immersion or development bilingual programs as called for in Proposition 58 of November 2016 and overwhelmingly supported by voters!

Both one - way, as well as two - way, dual - language bilingual programs often fall short in legitimating the practices of bilingual Americans, for they have been built following an immersion pedagogy that might serve English - speaking majority children well, but that does not build on the entire language repertoire of bilinguals.

Now called two - way dual - language education or two - way immersion in an effort to silence the word «bilingual,» the new proposal required that half of the students be learners of English and the other half be learners of the language other than English (Lindholm - Leary, 2011).

Dual - language immersion programs: A cautionary note concerning the education of language - minority students.

Dual immersion's policymaking opportunity» features a mention of DCB & its programs.

Another trend is that two of the top schools on both lists are Dual Language Immersion schools.

A founding group of educators, parents, and community activists formally submitted an application this week to the Public Charter School Board to establish the first public school in the District to offer dual - language immersion in Hebrew and English.

And dual language immersion hold a lot of promise.

His best known works include: reviews of the research on long - term effects; benefit - cost analyses of the Perry Preschool and Abecedarian programs; randomized trials comparing alternative approaches to educating children including length of day, monolingual versus dual - language immersion, the Tools of the Mind curriculum; and, the series of State Preschool Yearbooks providing annual state - by - state analyses of progress in public pre-K.