Foreign Language

Promises Made

Promises Kept
  • Increase language proficiency by the time students graduate middle school.
  • Adopted a new middle school world language curriculum on May 10, 2011.
  • Awarded planning grant in 2011 for $39,000 that is being used to develop curriculum aligned to standards and best practices for world language learning.

Promises Made

Promises Kept
  • Daily instruction in language as a core subject.
  • New, less labor intensive strategies/programs.
  • Reinforce the instruction students receive in their native tongue.
  • Offer a variety of language options.
  • Working with staff to reinvent the program – incorporate use of more technology, move toward daily language learning, focus on multiple languages beyond Spanish and French, interdisciplinary/reinforce other areas of curriculum (math, science and social studies).
  • Starting with the 2011-2012 school year, K-2 students receive FLES instruction four times a week for 20 minutes.