Sentences with phrase «with language immersion programs»

This has often been the case with magnet schools and is now happening with language immersion programs originally geared toward helping Latino and other children from immigrant households improve their English fluency.

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The school operates from Mondays through Fridays, 6:00 AM to 6:30 PM, providing children with age - appropriate activities as wells as Spanish language immersion program.

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.

Mason attends Richmond Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, a school that, along with Mt. Tabor Middle School and Grant High School, houses a fifteen - year - old Japanese language partial - immersion magnet program that researchers from the Center for Applied Linguistics have called a model for language learning.

Maureen Kelleher, another Education Post blogger, told me about her experience with its «bilingual advisory committee,» launched by the teacher who leads the school's dual - language immersion program.

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...

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.

Yu Ying, the first public school in the Nation's Capital to offer a Chinese language immersion program, delivered in combination with the International Baccalaureate Organization's Primary Years curricula, seeks to educate elementary students «to become bilingual and biliterate in an increasingly important world language» with «a world class education that opens doors to the future.»

In an engaging and informative interview, Principal Daniela Anello demonstrated how participating in a data - driven, innovative dual language immersion program at DC Bilingual provides students and parents alike with resources for life - long learning.

«It will allow us to make teacher salaries more competitive with surrounding districts; it will help us to purchase curriculum to support language immersion, the International Baccalaureate Programme, and innovative educational programming; and it will allow us to maintain and improve our facilities.

With more than 51,000 students who currently speak English as a second language, it's time to kill English as a Second Language programs (ESL) and English Immersion programs (EI).

The first morning I sat down to work on this article, I was interrupted by two requests from alumni students (one for help with an internship application and another for a letter of recommendation for a language immersion program).

One high school will partner with the Detroit Medical Center; an elementary school in Farmington Hills will highlight Chinese and Spanish language immersion programs; in the small town of St. Helen, families will once again have an elementary school; and one school in Saginaw will serve incarcerated students.

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.

One of the most exciting aspects of our son's education is the Spanish immersion program that has cultivated his love for language and laid the foundation for him to communicate with many more people across cultures and around the world — and yet none of this will be measured by the MAP test.

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.

With a growing student population of English language learners from diverse backgrounds, the Houston Independent School District offers a range of language acquisition programs to serve Spanish - dominant English Language Learners in elementary school, including bilingual programs in the form of transitional late - exit, one - way developmental, and two - way bilingual immersion.

I coordinate the Spanish Immersion program in our district, Mendon - Upton Regional, and feel passionate about promoting world language programs, technology, and connecting with local and global partners.

Utah Dual language Immersion (DLI) is a state supported program in which students spend half the day in English with one teacher and half the day with another teacher in a second language.

PGCPS is nationally recognized for innovative programs and initiatives that provide students with unique learning opportunities, including arts integration, environmental and financial literacy, and language immersion.

However, recently, dual language immersion (DLI) programs have emerged in the country as effective ways to bring together language minority and language majority speakers in school settings with the goal of bilingualism and bi-literacy for all.

Reporting of student progress is the same in immersion programs as it is in English programs and students in French Immersion receive the Ontario Provincial Report Card with the language of instruction indicated beside subjeimmersion programs as it is in English programs and students in French Immersion receive the Ontario Provincial Report Card with the language of instruction indicated beside subjeImmersion receive the Ontario Provincial Report Card with the language of instruction indicated beside subject areas.

Arizona's language restrictive policies resulted in the controversial Structured English Immersion (SEI) program consisting of a four hour language block, leaving English learners (ELs) in classrooms with a separate curriculum from their English proficient peers.

Panelists will include teachers and administrators at language immersion programs in DC, along with a researcher and a 4th - grade student.

Phi Theta Kappa is proud to partner with TheTalkList - Your Virtual Immersion Program - connecting those hoping to improve language skills with Phi Theta Kappa tutors through online video chats.

Spend a semester or year in our full - immersion TEFL GAP Year program, learning and working side by side with community stake holders, all while gaining invaluable language skills and teaching experience.

I even talked myself into being okay with the teen headed to Korea or Russia this summer to study language in an immersion program.