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PK - 12 Programs

Institutional Characteristics

Historically underserved learners

Languages

Type of school

Location of school

Location of School - State

Type of geographic area where school is located

Grades included at school

School characteristics

Percent free and reduced lunch eligible students

Access for All Learners in More Languages

Recruitment of groups of historically underserved learners

Recruit historically underserved learners

Implement strategies to retain historically underserved learners

Teacher profile matches students

Languages Added in Past 5 year

Obstacles to enrollment

Accountability Through Transparency and Documentation

Publish description of program goals and requirements

Publicize efforts to increase historically underserved student enrollments

Publicize definition of student success

Years of language offered

Levels of language offered

Conduct language assessment

Instructional Strategies and Approaches

Receive federal support

Workforce Preparation Activity

Additional Keys to Access and Accountability

Recruit teachers from historically underserved learner communities

Teachers mirror the population of students

Program offers professional development targeting language teachers

Offer immersion language learning opportunities

Have partnerships with public, private or non-profit organizations

  • Carver Dual Language Elementary

    At Carver Dual Language Elementary, our goal is that all our students leave us as biliterate, bilingual, and multicultural individuals. We achieve this by instructing content in both Spanish and English daily. Children are … Read More

  • Manthala George Jr. Global Studies School and Brockton High School

    Brockton Public Schools is a diverse public school system of approximately 15,000 students - of which 44.7% are First Language Not English (FLNE), 28.2% are English Learners (EL), and 7.5% are Former English Learners (FEL). 76.4 … Read More

  • Distant Language

    Our school was built upon the concept of bringing all learners together coming from different backgrounds and ethnicities, immigrants, and people of any color. For us, all of them form an honored and respectful global tribe … Read More

  • Biltmore Preparatory Academy

    The dual language Spanish Immersion program at Biltmore Preparatory prepares students to be biliterate in English and Spanish by teaching a 50/50 immersion program for students in kindergarten through fifth grade and a 70/30 … Read More

  • College Gate Elementary School

    Anchorage School District's Yup'ik Immersion Program is open to any student in the Anchorage School District. That said, the program is currently grant funded through the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Indian … Read More

  • Turnagain Elementary School

    In 2004 the Anchorage School District, Anchorage, Alaska, established the first Russian Immersion Program in the U.S. The program was originally funded through a Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grant through the U.S. … Read More

  • Charlotte East Language Academy

    Charlotte East Language Academy is a partial magnet two-way dual language immersion program in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Students apply to the program in kindergarten through the School Choice Lottery, and all available … Read More

  • Collinswood Language Academy

    Collinswood Language Academy is a full magnet two-way dual language immersion program in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Students apply to the program in kindergarten through the School Choice Lottery, and all available School … Read More

  • Oaklawn Language Academy

    Oaklawn Language Academy is a full magnet two-way dual language immersion program in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Students apply to the program in kindergarten through the School Choice Lottery, and all available School Choice … Read More

  • Downes Elementary

    At Downes Elementary, we are proud to offer the option of entering our Chinese Immersion program to all families. Students may enter up through December of their 1st grade year. Students in this program spend 1/2 of their day … Read More

  • William C. Lewis Elementary

    Dual language immersion offers a rich bilingual experience for all learners, but especially for elementary school-age children whose minds are developmentally best able to acquire a second language. Lewis’s program is the only … Read More

  • Townsend Elementary

    Providing equity and access to our diverse learners in our Spanish Immersion program is accomplished through a variety of DLI teaching strategies including, but not limited to the use of verbal and non-verbal prompting, sentence … Read More