Each program is listed alphabetically, by state.
Alaska
Anchorage School District
Janice Gullickson
4600 DeBarr Avenue
P.O. Box 196614
Anchorage, AK 99519
¡VOCES!
Spanish
This project will expand and extend both the
immersion and traditional sequences, getting higher
numbers of students of students into long-term
Spanish, and producing high fluency, literacy, and
achievement. Objectives are also for new skills and
knowledge for teachers, enrich curriculum and best
practices instruction, and national quality
assessments.
Arizona
Osborn School District
Anita Riehm
1226 West Osborn Road
Phoenix, AZ 85013
Foreign Language Instruction for Elementary Schools
The Project will establish a foreign language
program at three districts, two elementary and one
middle school. In keeping with best practice, we
will begin to develop proficiency in a second
language starting with pre-school students and
continuing in an uninterrupted sequence through
eighth grade.
California
Leavenworth Elementary School
Dr. Rose Patron
Fresno Unified School District
2309 Tulare Street
Fresno, CA 93721
Project ¡ALAS!: Academic Language Acquisition
Support for Grades K-6
Spanish
Los Angeles Unified School District
Sandra Kim
450 N. Grand Ave.
Room A-335
Los Angeles, CA 90012
The Korean/English Dual Language Program at Third
Street Elementary School
Korean
The program is designed to implement a dual language
program in grades K-2. Students are mixed by
language group throughout the day and receive
instruction in both English and Korean. Both groups
of students learn English and Korean.
Long Beach Unified School District
Alexis Ruiz-Alessi
1515 Hughes Way
Long Beach, CA 90810
Project FLASH (Foreign Language Achievement and
Student Harmony)
Spanish
This program will be implemented at the elementary
school level and will address Spanish as a foreign
language. The program will link non-native English
speakers to promote two-way language learning and
will promote sequential study of foreign language
beginning in kindergarten and continuing through
high school. This project will establish a strong
elementary-level program capable of, and designed
for adoption or adaptation by others.
Saddleback Valley Unified School District
Dr. Gloria Roelen
25631 Diseno Drive
Mission Viejo, CA 92691
Global Horizon
The Global Horizons Language Program (a FLES
Program) will be delivered in an after-school format
four days per week to give children access to
foreign languages outside the Two-Way program
through a modular design that provides access to all
students who choose to grow globally.
Clarendon Elementary School
Kenneth R. Romines, Ed.D.
500 Clarendon Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94131
Standards Based Japanese Language Development
Project
Japanese
This standards-based approach will span the entire
K-12 grade level Japanese curriculum of the school
district. The model initiative will strengthen the
link between the nine middle and high schools
offering Japanese in the SFUSD and the K-5 program.
The specific aims of the project are: (1) to improve
students' abilities to communicate in Japanese; (2)
to provide professional development and coaching for
teachers in the Japanese language national
standards; (3) to create a proficiency-orientated,
standards-based curriculum which will be articulated
with middle and high schools and serve as a model
for national dissemination; (4) to increase parental
involvement and parents' knowledge of Japanese
national standards; and (5) to integrate the use of
contemporary communications technology with Japanese
national standards.
William De Avila Elementary School
San Francisco Unified School District
Dr. Kerrily Joy Kitano
555 Franklin
San Francisco, CA 94102
Japanese Language Integration Project
Japanese
The Japanese Language Integration Project will be a
part of the Japanese Bicultural Program - Sensei at
William R. De Avila Elementary School. The goals are
to provide for staff development in language and
technology, to create technological links for
students, parents, and teachers, and to establish
and measure sequential learning of language in
grades K-5.
The project will provide instruction in Japanese
language and culture for students, parents, and
teachers. A two-way bilingual focus will provide a
conduit for Japanese-speaking students to converse
in English and English-speaking students to converse
in Japanese, serving novice as well as native
speakers. Language intensive workshops will help
teachers and Sensei design, coordinate, and
implement Japanese/English lesson plans. This will
integrate the Japanese language with the core
curriculum.
Connecticutt
Region #4 Supervision District Board of Education
Barbara Senges
P.O. Box 187, Route 80
Office of the Superintendent
Deep River, CT 06417
Elementary Program for Achievement of Foreign
Language and Literacy Competency
The implementation plan for FLES proposed in this
grant allows for the expansion of the FLES program
to Deep River and Essex with a more gradual
implementation while addressing the issues of cost
to each elementary school district as well as the
priority for enhanced Early Literacy Programs. In
year one of the project, Spanish instruction would
begin in grades K-3 at Deep River Elementary School.
In year two, the program will expand to include
grades K-3 at Essex Elementary School while
expanding the Chester program to include grade 5 and
the Deep River program to include grade 4. In the
final year of the grant, the Chester program will
expand to grade 6, the Deep River program to grade 5
and the Essex program to grade 4.
Consolidated School District of New Britain
Adnelly Z. Marichal
One Liberty Square
P.O. Box 1960
New Britain, CT 06050
Middle School Two-Way Immersion Project
This project has been developed to expand the
teaching of a second language from the elementary to
the middle school level. Students participating in
an elementary school two-way immersion program (TWI)
will enter the middle school in 2002 and the
district will be ready to implement plans to provide
a sequential study of a foreign language from
Kindergarten through grade 8 within the dual
language format.
In the second year, two 6th grade classes, the first
cohort of New Britain's TWI program, will start
middle school with a full language program in place.
An additional twenty-give students will be added in
grace 6 to raise the number of participants to
seventy-five. In order to accommodate late entries
and to support continuing students who need
additional help, a Spanish resource teacher is
proposed for English speakers. The district will
provide a comparable resource in English for Spanish
speakers who need additional support. In order to
strengthen learning activities occurring during the
school day, an after school program enhancing
regular classes is also projected in the form of a
Language Academy. An immersion summer camp
experience for students is planned for grades 5 - 8
to continue the momentum of the school year and to
provide activities outside of the classroom.
An intensive language institute for foreign language
teachers in this project will be held the summer of
the first year and each year following.
Windham Public Schools
Ann Anderberg
22 Prospect Street
Williamantic, CT 06226
FLES Based Foreign Language Program
Spanish
The development and implementation of an elementary
school Foreign Language program in the four district
schools is the focus of this proposal. The project
will begin with all third and fourth grade students.
Within the three years funded by Title VII, the
project will demonstrate scope and sequence of
language instruction moving students from beginning
language learners to learners of content in the
second language. Each year of the project a Summer
Institute for all teachers of a second language,
K-12 will be held to coordinate future second
language learning in the district. The project will
also provide a link to the Spanish community who
will be participants in special activities during
the school year.
Florida
Hillsborough County Public Schools
Judith Lombana
901 E. Kennedy Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33602
Project Achieve
Spanish
Project Achieve will expand the offering of daily
and sequential foreign language instruction at six
high schools with a large enrollment of Hispanic
students. This project will facilitate the
transition from a foreign language instruction to a
two-way language-learning environment. The main goal
of Project Achieve is provide the opportunity to
both Spanish and English speakers to participate
together in a culturally and linguistically
appropriate course of study which will enhance the
student's academic skills and prepare them to
complete high school with the necessary tools to
succeed in our society.
Hillsborough County Public Schools
Judith Lombana
901 E. Kennedy Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33602
SE LEER
Spanish
Project SE LEER (Spanish at the Elementary Level
Experiencing Educational Reform) will serve as a
model of systematic reform effort for the School
District of Hillsborough County. The proposed
project is designed to develop the sequential study
of foreign language (Spanish) by adding the
elementary level to the current secondary foreign
language program, and to provide a working model for
other schools and districts.
Florida Department of Education
Office of Multicultural Student Language
Education
Lisa C.S. Saavedra
325 West Gaines Street, Suite 544
Tallahassee, FL 32399
Foreign Language Distance Learning Project
Spanish
The project includes the development of a Spanish as
foreign language program and a high quality foreign
heritage training for teachers that will facilitate
the inclusion of Spanish-speaking students in
learning opportunities that develop, maintain and
enrich their first language as well as English, and
will contribute to the promotion of two-way language
learning and to the quality of the Spanish as a
foreign language program.
Illinois
Chicago Public Schools-Gallistel School
Office of Management and Budget
Armando M. Almendarez
125 S. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60603
International Language & Career Academies Curriculum
Development Project
Chinese, French, German and Spanish
The Chicago Public Schools, together with DePaul
University, propose to develop and install a new
approach for world language instruction as the
foundation of its 12 International Language and
Career Academy high school and 24 feeder elementary
school programs. The academies were created in
1998-99 to answer the challenge of the American
business community with regard to the critical need
for a highly skilled, bilingual and bicultural
workforce. The next phase of program development is
curricular in nature. The goal of the new curricula
is to create an integrated instructional system in
which world language instruction is fused with the
requirements of the 21st century global marketplace.
Union Ridge School District 86
Dr. Raymond Kuper and Dr. Anna Fiore
4600 N. Oak Park Ave.
Harwood Heights, IL 60706
Language and Learning for the future: Global
Education for the Global World
Italian
This program will develop a sequential integrated
curriculum in Grades K-8 by delivering Italian
language instruction three times a week, from forty
to sixty minutes each time, including immersion in
art, music and social studies.
Illinois State Board of Education
Dr. Bradley Woodruff
100 North First Street
Springfield, IL 62777
The Illinois Online Foreign Language Learning
Initiative
The Illinois Online Foreign Language Learning
Initiative will: (1) expand the accessibility and
availability of foreign language study for
elementary and secondary school students through an
innovative, online model program; (2) enhance the
teaching capabilities of foreign language
practitioners through intensive summer professional
development programs; (3) link non-native English
speakers with foreign language students to promote
two-way language learning; (4) promote sequential
study of foreign language, beginning in elementary
school.
Indiana
Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township
Mary Carr
7601 56th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46226
Expansion and Development of a High School Immersion
Program
Spanish
This project is designed to enhance the current
Grade 6 - 8 immersion program at Craig Middle School
and to develop a continuing well-articulated
immersion program at Lawrence North High School that
provides a rigorous preparation and provides
students with opportunities to learn beyond the
walls of the traditional high school setting.
Kansas
Unified School District #457
Office of Supplemental Programs
Dr. Linda S. Trujillo
1205 Fleming
Garden City, KS 67846
Project EFL (Educating Future Leaders)
Spanish
Project EFL will promote sequential study of a
foreign language as the elementary level through the
implementation of a dual-language program
(Spanish/English) beginning in kindergarten during
year one, and expanding through fourth grade by
capacity year five.
Kentucky
Fayette County Public Schools
Denise Munizaga
701 East Main Street
Lexington, KY 40502
Building Communicative Competence and Cultural
Awareness in a Foreign Language Partial-Immersion
Environment
Spanish
This project is designed to substantially improve
the Spanish communicative competence and Spanish
cultural awareness of students at Maxwell
Elementary/Escuela de Inmersión en Español in
Lexington, KY.
Jefferson County Public Schools
VanHoose Education Center
Gregory Fulkerson
P.O. Box 34020
Louisville, KY 40232
Hawthorne Elementary Bilingual Immersion Program
Spanish
This project will take a comprehensive holistic
approach to institutional change that is founded on
pairing students in a 50/50 ratio Spanish to English
speakers. It will address identified gaps in teacher
training, curriculim development, and institutional
processes. In addition, the project will address
other factors bearing on student achievement
including exposure to Spanish language activities
outside the classroom and opportunities for parental
involvement and learning.
Louisana
Louisiana Consortium of Immersion Schools
Richard J. Guidry
1057 Dudley Ménard Lane
Broussard, LA 70518
Project ELICIT: Education in Louisiana Immersion,
Connections in Teaching
French
The Consortium plans to improve students'
proficiency in the target language by increasing the
quantity and quality of exposure to that target
language. This will be achieve through developing
badly needed instructional materials in the target
language and through sensitizing and training
teachers to these materials.
Massachusetts
Arlington Public Schools
Kathleen F. Donovan
869 Massachusetts Avenue
P.O. Box 167
Arlington, MA 02476
Arlington Spanish Integrated Resources (Project ASIR)
Spanish
ASIR is a comprehensive initiative by the Arlington
(Massachusetts) Public Schools designed to expand
and strengthen a program in Spanish that began in
1999 in the town's seven elementary schools for
students in grades K-2.
MA Department of Education
Susan Wheltle
350 Main Street
Malden, MA 02148
Project LIFE (Language Instruction for Everyone)
Project LIFE is an intensive summer professional
development program with follow-up sessions during
the school year in which foreign language teachers
and special needs professional, supported by experts
from the field, will work together to develop
learning strategies and discuss modifications and
accommodations for students with disabilities in
Kindergarten through fifth grade, in order to
promote the sequential study of a foreign language
beginning in the elementary school.
Salem Public Schools
Margaret Marquis-Hemeon
29 Highland Avenue
Salem, MA 01970
Producing Young Linguists in Salem
The grant will support system-wide planning,
development, and implementation for the improvement
and expansion of a world languages program that
promotes sequential study of foreign languages and
provides equitable opportunities for all the
children of Salem.
Springfield MA Public Schools
Dr. Kathleen M. Riordan
195 State Street
P.O. Box 1410
Springfield, MA 01102
The Springfield Agenda: Inclusive Foreign Language
Teaching
This program will provide for the improvement of
foreign language study for heritage learners and
students with special needs in grades 6 - 12 in the
district's 15 middle and high schools.
Michigan
School District of the City of Kalamazoo
Becky Hunt
120 Howard Street
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
Dos Idiomas Un Mundo
Two Languages One World
Spanish
This project will send Spanish language, classroom,
and bilingual education staff for intensive summer
language programs in Latin American countries. It
also includes professional development in second
language acquisition and instruction. The project
will also fund a Spanish Specialist who would
supervise the revision of the Spanish curriculum
using the "five C's" (Communities, Communication,
Cultures, Comparisons and Connections). This project
also includes a strong parent involvement component
that would partner Spanish and English speaking
families and provide a variety of activities and
projects for them at the school.
Sturgis Public Schools
Diane Bailey
216 Vinewood
Sturgis, MI 49091
SPS Elementary Foreign Language Project
Spanish
This program will provide Spanish instruction to all
students enrolled in grades one through eight by the
third year of the implementation plan.
Minnesota
St. Paul Public Schools - ISD 625
Joann Knuth
360 Colborne St.
St. Paul, MN 55102
St. Paul Public School's French Immersion Project
French
This project will plan, implement, and build the
capacity to sustain a K through 8 foreign language
program in French. The existing K through 3/4 French
immersion program will be developed and expanded
through Grade 6 at a new site, and groundwork will
be done to articulate a French language extension
program through Grade 8.
Mississippi
Gulfport School District
Dianne Walker
2010 15th Street
P.O. Box 220
Gulfport, MS 39502
Gulfport Schools K-12 Foreign Language Project
Spanish
The Gulfport School District proposes a project to:
1)initiate a K-12 Spanish program that will
immediately benefit a significant number of minority
children who attend high poverty schools; 2)
immediately improve the foreign language
instructional program for students currently
attending the Gulfport Schools through curriculum
and professional development activities; 3) develop
an infrastructure that will support a high quality
foreign language program for all students in grade
K-12 that can be extended, sustained and supported
using local resources after federal funding has
ended.
Mississippi Department of Education
Dr. Linda Irby
359 N. West Street, Suite 330
P.O. Box 771
Jackson, MS 39205
Mississippi Foreign Language Innovative Professional
Development Project (FLIPD)
The Mississippi FLIPD project envisions serving the
professional development needs of all foreign
language teachers in the state by providing training
in the latest research-based practices as well as
establishing an on-going network of support.
Nebraska
Crete Public Schools
Robert Sykes
920 Linden Ave.
Crete, NE 68333
FACES - Future Achievement with Crete Elementary
Spanish.
Spanish
The Crete Public Schools will partner with Doane
College, the IN-VISION Project, St. James Elementary
School, and Farmland Foods pork processing plant to
implement FACES. The purpose is to enhance the
future of all children in Crete, NE with sequential
foreign language study.
New Hampshire
Amherst School District
Kathryn O'Reilly
P.O. Box 849
1 School Street
Amherst, NH 03031
¡ADELANTE! Advancement and Development of Early
Language Acquisition Necessary to Everyone
Spanish and French
This project will expand the program that now serves
7th and 8th graders, so that at the end of the
project there will be a full sequential French and
Spanish program that serves K through 8.
New York
Community School District 32
Multilingual Center
Elsie G. Loperena
797 Bushwick Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11221
Project FLAG (Foreign Language Accelerates
Globalization)
Spanish
Project FLAG proposes to design and implement a
program of Spanish as a foreign language at three
elementary schools. The project seeks to facilitate
the acquisition of Spanish as a foreign language
among the following populations: English language
speakers, non-Spanish speaking Hispanics, parents,
teachers, and other school personnel.
Buffalo City School District
June Simmons Barrow
418 City Hall
Buffalo, NY 14202
The Montessori FLES Project
Italian
The purpose of this project is to maximize the
contact time and intensity of the Italian FLES
program at Bennett Park Public Montessori Center. It
will provide developmentally appropriate,
articulated program that flows across levels without
interruption, leading toward fluency.
Newburgh Enlarged City School District
Dr. Annette M. Saturnelli
124 Grand Street
Newburgh, NY 12550
Development and Implementation of a Standards-Based
Foreign Language Program for Elementary Students
Spanish, French and Italian
This project focuses upon developing and
implementing a research-based model to promote the
acquisition of foreign languages by elementary
students.
Amber Charter School
Jon Moscow
310 Lenox Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10027
Integrando Lenguaje, Contenido Y Cultura: Teaching
and Learning Spanish in a Two-Way Immersion Program
Spanish
This program will expand and develop Amber Charter
School's innovative program for teaching Spanish to
low-income English- and Spanish-dominant children
beginning in kindergarten and ultimately continuing
through 12th grade.
North Carolina
NC Department of Public Instruction
Division of Instructional Services
Frances Hoch
301 N. Wilmington St.
Raleigh, NC 27601
Project Title:< New Connections: Foreign Language
Education and the Heritage Language Learner
Spanish
This project aims to serve all the Spanish teachers
in the state who are planning to implement Spanish
for Heritage Speakers courses. More directly, this
project will serve a group of 20 middle and high
school Spanish teachers and their principal or
central office coordinator.
Oklahoma
Coalgate Public Schools
Stephanie Haney
P.O. Box 368
Coalgate, OK 74538
Calling All Students: A Communication-Based Approach
to Teaching Spanish with Computer-Assisted Language
Learning
Spanish
The goal of this project is to implement a
communication-based approach to foreign language
learning, beginning in the elementary school and
continuing with an articulated sequent through the
high school level. Achieving this goal will enable
Coalgate students to attain proficiency in a foreign
language by the completion of high school or through
postsecondary education.
Oregon
Eugene School District 4J
Abby Lane
200 North Monroe
Eugene, OR 97402
The Edison FLES Project
Spanish
The goal of this project is to establish
high-quality intensive second language education and
expand cultural awareness at Edison Elementary
School in order to assist students in working toward
district and state second language requirements.
This program will serve over 400 over the course of
36 months.
Pennsylvania
Capital Area Intermediate Unit
James P. Warnock
55 Miller Street
Summerdale, PA 17093
Elementary Language Connections
Spanish
This project will enhance 1)connections between
instruction in Spanish and other curriculum areas;
2)connections among classroom teachers as they begin
work with a language teachers, with each other, and
with the students; 3) connections among school
districts as Intermediate shares the model and
materials developed in this project; and 4) the
project connects English-speaking children in an
isolated rural community and Spanish-speaking
children in a city neighborhood through online
communications and sharing of materials.
Tennessee
Tusculum View Elementary School
Joyce Johnson
Greeneville City Schools
312 Floral Street
Greeneville, TN 37743
Optimal Language Experience for Students at Tusculum
View School
OLE!
Spanish
This project will implement a comprehensive foreign
language instructional program with the expectation
of continuance and with approaches that can be
disseminated and duplicated in other schools.
Texas
Corpus Christi Independent School District
Dr. Mary Anne Wilkinson
801 Leopard
P.O. Box 110
Corpus Christi, TX 78403
Aquí se habla español/Spanish spoken here
Spanish
This grant will be used to refine and expand an
existing Spanish as a second language program and to
create a curriculum design document that can be used
by Corpus Christi Independent School District as
well as other districts.
West Virginia
Tucker County Board of Education
Sara Radtka Boone
501 Chestnut Street
Parsons, WV 26287
Tucker County: The Spanish Way
Spanish
This program will 1) implement Exploratory Spanish
in grade 5 and 6; 2) implement Spanish I in grades 7
and 8; and 3) develop a foreign language curriculum
for an exploratory program for grades 5 using the
grade 6 guidelines.
Wisconsin
Oshkosh Area School District
Jean Stebbins
215 S. Eagle Street
P.O. Box 3048
Oshkosh, WI 54903
Oshkosh Elementary Foreign Language Assistance
Program
Spanish, French, German
This grant will be used to develop sequential
elementary school foreign language instructional
programming designed to articulate with a revamped
secondary foreign language curricula (Spanish,
French and German).
Wyoming
Natrona County School District
Ann Tollefson
970 North Glenn Road
Casper, WY 82601
A National Model for Delivery of Elementary School
Foreign Language Programs
This project proposes to design, implement, measure,
and disseminate the results of four model programs
for elementary school foreign languages (FLES).
