DISTRICT VOICES ON NC
DUAL LANGUAGE/IMMERSION
2015 COLLABORATIVE CONFERENCE ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Panel Members
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Charles Aiken
- Ex. Director Middle School and Title III Instruction
Chatham County Schools
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Leslie Baldwin
- Foreign Language Program Specialist
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
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Emily Bivins
- Principal, Frank Porter Graham Elementary
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
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Jack McIver
– Assistant Principal, Collinswood Language Academy
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
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Ynez Olshausen
- Principal, Waddell Language Academy,
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Programmatic Design Considerations
•Why do you want/need a program?
•LEP students
•Cross cultural connections
•Cognitive and linguistic benefits
•Global education
•Other reasons...
Purpose of Most DLI Programs in NC
•Provide most effective and evidence-based
practices to support LEP students
•Eliminate the achievement gap for LEP students,
Latino, African-American, and/or economically
disadvantaged students
•Advance student achievement for all DLI students
•Ensure students are bi-lingual, bi-literate, and
cross-cultural
•Create globally-minded and prepared students
(21st century skills and SBE Vision Statement)
Programmatic Design Considerations:
Determining appropriate models
Program Model
One-way or two-way immersion model?
Depends on the population of students served!
Instructional Model
90/10; 80/20; 50/50 - how much English?
To consider:
space,
staffing,
scheduling,
resources
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Programmatic Design Considerations:
Determining appropriate models
1)50/50 model:
To consider: space, staffing, scheduling
– 50/50 is easier (staffing and scheduling) with 2 classes
per grade level
– switch AM / PM? or L1 day / L2 day?
Programmatic Design Considerations:
Determining appropriate models
2. 90/10 or 80/20 - a richer foundation in L2
To consider: space, staffing, scheduling
– Does one teacher teach content in two
languages?
– Or is each language represented by one
teacher?
– Does an English teacher serve multiple
classes/grades as a “push in” teacher?
– Start K in 90/10 or 80/20, then switch to 50/50?
Programmatic Design Considerations:
Scheduling
Scheduling becomes more complex after K-2!
– In the immersion model, “the target language” is
not a subject - it is the medium of instruction
– determine which subjects are taught in L1/L2
– determine which teachers
need to plan together:
by grade level?
by language?
both?
Programmatic Design Considerations
Recruiting, hiring, retaining quality staff
1. Develop a relationship with Visiting International
Faculty (VIF) and Educational Partners
International (EPI)
2. Interview Process/Screening-Skype with an
invited team-ask strategic questions relative to
team/department dynamics
Programmatic Design Considerations
Recruiting, hiring, retaining quality staff
3. Staff recommendations
4. Mentoring Support
–PTA
–Mentor
–Beginning Teacher Support Committee
Professional Development
Site-based differentiated professional
development (in target languages)
1. SIOP-Sheltered Instruction Observation
Protocol
2. TPR – Total Physical Response
3. Immersion
4. Balanced Literacy
5. Thinking Maps
Professional Development
6. PEAK-Performance Excellence for All Kids
7. Rigor and Relevance-Effective Lesson Design
8. Anchor Charts and Solution Stations
9. FLANC – Foreign Language Association of NC
10.La Cosecha
District Considerations
• District goals and support
– Proficiency expectations
– Program coordinator
– Professional Development
District Considerations
• Curriculum Development
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Alignment to NC World Language Essential
Standards and Language Proficiency
expectations
• Assessments
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Content (in which language?)
Language skills
District Condsiderations
• Alignment to other initiatives
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Title III/LEP
Title I
Instructional Initiatives
District Considerations
● Material and Financial support
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Exchange for English materials
Title III
Title I
Business partners
Conversion funds
Other district resources
Questions?
Thank You!
Questions?
Contact
Panel Members
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Charles Aiken – caiken@chatham.k12.nc.us
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Leslie Baldwin - lwbaldwin@wsfcs.k12.nc.us
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Emily Bivins – ebivins@chccs.k12.nc.us
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Jack McIver - jack.mciver@cms.k12.nc.us
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Ynez Olshausen – ynez.olshausen@cms.k12.nc.us
State Board of Education Global Education Strategic Plan:
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/globaled/