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Experiential Summer Learning for ACPS's Newcomers
Newcomers in Albemarle CountySeveral months ago, the students in ACPS's summer newcomer academy were in refugee camps in Thailand, Colombia, Turkey, and Jordan; in subsistence farming communities in El...
View ArticleFostering Metalinguistic Awareness in Elementary School
ESOL STUDENTS EXPLORE THEIR LINGUISTIC IDENTITYWhen the emergent bilingual students at Baker Butler elementary school began asking about their two languages, ESOL teacher Nicole Erdim collaborated with...
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NBC 29 Covers the Summer Newcomer Program
NBC 29 accompanied one of our summer newcomer groups to UVA today and filed this report.
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Growing Diversity
Greer's kindergarten class for the 2013-14 school year represents 14 countries from every inhabited continent on the planet. This is just one example from our schools of the opportunities for...
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Newcomer Students Explore Science with UVA Professor
Ms. Filadelfia Soto teaches a group of newcomer students in the community of Southwood as part of ACPS's summer newcomer program. Her students have all arrived from Central America and Mexico in the...
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Family Night at Agnor-Hurt Elementary School
Parents have lots of questions about how best to support their children learning more than one language in early childhood. Some wonder if learning two languages will confuse a child. Others ask how...
View ArticleBilingual Children's Theatre
The students in the Monticello High School drama program wanted to find a way to learn from and give to their younger counterparts at Cale Elementary School; thus was born a cross-cultural and...
View ArticleConnecting Young Learners with High School Role Models
Elizabeth Laínez is a high school student who exemplifies the best of our ESOL program in Albemarle County Public Schools. She entered school speaking Spanish and after only a few years of studying...
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A Language Exchange for Albemarle County Teachers & Families
Many Albemarle County teachers and parents face a common challenge: how to learn a new language to connect with those important for helping children in school. International parents who are still...
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Engaging Immigrant Parents with Improved Systems of Interpretation & Translation
Much research portrays immigrant parents as disengaged, absent, or victims when it comes to interactions with schools. This portrayal is inaccurate, as it stems from a school-centered view of parent...
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Multilingual Welcome Videos for Parents
The Albemarle County ESOL Program has collaborated with the local immigrant community to create a series of welcome videos for new families to our school division. These videos in Arabic, Farsi,...
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News on Family Engagement at Agnor-Hurt
Agnor Hurt’s biggest fundraiser event is the fall festival. Latino families always attend. This year they organized to impact the festival with an even greater influence. Latino parents organized 2...
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Albemarle County's Two-Way Immersion Program at Cale Elementary School
It is more than half a year into our division's first foray into the promising practices of Dual Language Immersion education. Cale Elementary School began its two-way immersion program this school...
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Nickels for Nepal: Empowering Students to Support Earthquake Victims
By Kristen Eberly, Lead ESOL Teacher at Greer Elementary SchoolThis was truly an AMAZING experience.3% of the student population at Greer is from Nepal and many of them have family...
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Immersion Excursion Summer Program 2015
We have finished our second week of our summer immersion excursion for recently arrived immigrant students in Charlottesville and Albemarle County and are very proud of the work teachers and students...
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Albemarle / Charlottesville ESL Summer Immersion Excursion Program Opens New...
Click here to see Cville Tomorrow's article on the program.This year, thanks to the hard work of an excellent group of teachers, funding from the Bama Works Fund from the Dave Matthews Band and the...
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ESOL Enrollment Report 2015
We have completed the ESOL Enrollment Report for 2015 in Albemarle County Public Schools. Click here to see the full report. Below are some highlights:For the first time since 2008, we saw a net...
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Albemarle County's New International and ESOL Welcome Center
In July, 2016 Albemarle County Public Schools opened its new International and ESOL Welcome Center on the 3rd floor of the Northside Library on Rio Road. This marks the end of more than a decade of...
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