Sentences with phrase «of immersion schools»

As part of a two - day national summit here on revitalizing native languages, three founders of immersion schools that are teaching children Cherokee, Ojibwe, and Native Hawaiian contended that some No Child Left Behind provisions present huge hurdles for language - immersion programs or schools and conflict with schooling rights spelled out in another federal law, the Native American Languages...

The three finalists for the top job at Lycée Français de la Nouvelle - Orléans are the charter school's current academic director, the principal of a high - performing Uptown charter high school, and the former administrator of an immersion school in Maryland, Lycee officials announced Monday night.

Not exact matches

We've started world language immersion programs in which students spend half of each school day learning in Chinese or Spanish, beginning in kindergarten.

I believe that the point of view that I have derived from my internalization of Whitehead's philosophy helps me to raise broader, more inclusive, questions, than are asked by those whose points of view are shaped chiefly in schools of business, the study of international relations, or immersion in economic theory.

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.

June 24 - 29 (5 - Days) Introduction to Waldorf Early Childhood Education An Immersion in the World of the Waldorf Nursery / Kindergarten With Lisa Miccio of The Waldorf School of Garden City

Through direct immersion, students can get a sense of what is required of them in a collegiate setting, while still having the benefit of their mentors at our school.

Join us this summer at the International School of Arizona for our 2018 Spanish and French language immersion Summer Camp.

Summer Science Splash Camp is a week - long residential camp — an immersion in scientific observations and experiments for middle - school students — on the campus of Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA..

Through direct immersion, students can get a sense of what is required of them in a colleagiate setting, while still have the benefit of their mentors at our school.

This year has been a year of great independence — Tyler began first grade, joined the French Immersion Program that requires him to complete his homework independently, speaks a language that neither of his parents understand, runs around the neighborhood alone calling for friends, plays independently at home with his sibling and peers, and generally has a whole life at school and on the playing field that feels mostly separate from his father and me.

In 2001, he studied in Barcelona, Spain, and received a Spanish Immersion Diploma from the Enforex School of International Studies.

Six - day summer immersion workshops are also available for high school students to follow a line of scientific inquiry in a lab setting, analyze data, discuss the ethics of scientific research, and present their findings to their peers and scientist - advisors.

Grad school and the postdoc years often involve intense immersion in the culture and values of academic science.

The Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors project is aimed to measurably enhance student STEM engagement and achievement in selected school districts via professional development for teachers consisting of: (1) STEM Professional Development in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject matter experts.

She completed her Hatha Yoga 200 hr certification through Shambava School of Yoga at their Kona Ashram location, an amazing 3 week immersion.

This unique trip will trace the history of ancient Greece with Yoga immersion AND with every trip purchase, Philomobile will give one child the gift of yoga for an entire school year!

Angela currently serves as Co-President of DragonSprouts, a 501 (c) 3 organization that supports Mandarin Immersion language programs in the LA Unified School District.

McFarland, USA Kevin Costner plays a track coach in a poverty - ridden high school, which combines the usual sports story with an immersion into the immigrant experience of Mexican field workers in California.

At L'Etoile du Nord French Immersion School, in St. Paul, Minnesota, a group of sixth - grade students volunteered to help Books for Africa with this type of work after holding a book drive for the organization.

EC English is a group of schools within the language travel industry that teaches English as a Foreign Language (EFL) through a full immersion, continuous enrollment model.

In a wide - ranging discussion, Murphy talks about the problem with interpreting the performance data of EAL children too simplistically, issues with «immersion» programmes and the lack of support for schools in helping EAL children in the classroom.

By the end of summer, my literary immersion had renewed me for another school year.

Nearly 500 of the multitrack school's 1,300 students will return to school, and administrators will have to carry out a new state law that calls for limited - English - proficient children to be taught in English - immersion programs, rather than bilingual education.

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.

The school must inform the parents of its 1,000 LEP students of the impending changes — and the opportunity to seek a waiver to exempt their children from English immersion.

This highly successful program is modeled on the French immersion schools of Canada, which have a long - proven record of success in supporting students to become bilingual, interculturally aware, and cognitively more advanced than their monolingual peers.

The school districts have also failed to require detailed documentation of the need for a bilingual education classroom, as the initiative requires, and they have changed the requirement of a year in a sheltered English - immersion classroom from a maximum to a minimum.

Foreign - language - immersion schools can be defined broadly as those in which students spend at least 50 percent of their time learning while immersed in a nonnative language (Lenker and Rhodes, 2007).

According to faculty at JSIS, full - time, native - speaking teachers and instructional assistants in immersion classrooms play an important role in the success of the international school model, particularly in the younger grades.

Students in «50 - 50» language - immersion schools, in which students spend half of their day learning in a nonnative language, perform as well as, or better than, students in monolingual schools on standardized tests, and these benefits extend to English - language learners as well as native English speakers (Gómez, Freeman, and Freeman, 2005; Palmer, 2009; Thomas and Collier, 2002).

Eisenhower International Elementary School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is one of just two language - immersion schools in the state; the other, Zarrow International, was begun eight years ago because of Eisenhower's overwhelming success.

Yet those students are now getting more of an immersion experience in English, while English - speaking parents are sending their children to schools where lessons are taught in Mandarin, Japanese, or another world language.

In 1985, only 50 foreign - language - immersion schools existed in the United States, and as of 2011 that number has grown to 448 (Center for Applied Linguistics (PDF), 2011).

«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.

Rhonda Broussard is the founder and president of St. Louis Language Immersion Schools, a charter management organization.

Back in Riverside, I next visited Washington elementary, the first of three English - Spanish immersion schools that the district has opened in three years.

The San Jose Mercury News conducted a statewide analysis of the test scores of studefnts who stayed in schools that kept their bilingual programs and those that shifted to intensive English immersion with rapid mainstreaming.

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.

According to Leslie Harper, the director of an Ojibwe immersion school in Leech Lake, Minn., about 1,000 of the Ojibwe living in the United States are fluent in their tribal language.

In a study I undertook in 1989, I found that 12 percent of the elementary and middle school magnet programs in my sample specialized in basic skills and / or individualized teaching; 11 percent offered foreign language immersion; 11 percent were science -, math -, or computer - oriented; 10 percent catered to the gifted and talented and 10 percent to the creative and performing arts; 8 percent were traditional, back - to - basics programs (demanding, for instance, dress codes and contracts with parents for supervision of homework); 7 percent were college preparatory; 7 percent were early childhood and Montessori.

As part of the process of «internationalisation» many schools offer sister school partnerships, overseas immersion programs, and host international visitors.

Her experience teaching elementary school students in New Orleans as a first - grade teacher and then working as a reading immersion specialist had shown Grayson the importance of literacy for young children.

Culture College is an Arnhem Land - based Indigenous cultural and outdoor education immersion program tailored for secondary school students and designed to simultaneously educate and inspire our «leaders of tomorrow» and to invigorate the local homeland economies in the Northern Territory.

Over the past 15 years, Ms. Akano has been a classroom teacher in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, a teaching assistant for the Freshman Immersion Program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, and an assistant middle school principal.

Immersion did wonders for my French fluency, and I was fortunate to have academically - inclined teachers in Grades 1 - 3, 5 and 6, but K and 4 were lost years, and I owe much of my formal knowledge of French to my high school Modern Languages department head, an L2 French speaker!

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.

She has led the educational effort of the School to develop a first - of - its - kind Chinese immersion program and the School's International Baccalaureate program.

«When I introduced Brightspace to my Grade 10 French Immersion class — I was transitioning from my class website in First Class — and then started using some of its features in class (i.e. the discussion forum), I faced some vociferous opposition from a few of my students,» says Katherine Graham Burra, a teacher with the Limestone District School Board.