Each program is listed alphabetically, by state.
Alaska
Turnagain Elementary School
Anchorage School District
Janice Gullickson
4600 DeBarr Ave.
P.O. Box 196614
Anchorage, AK 99519
Starship MIR: Mission is Russian!
Russian
The program purposes to create a
school-within-a-school a partial immersion Russian
language program beginning in kindergarten and first
grade and expanding one grade level each year to
eventually span K-6. By year three, all Turnagain
elementary students learn Russian, beginning as
early as kindergarten and continuing their study via
an uninterrupted sequence into the feeder middle and
high schools both of which already offer Russian
language instruction.
California
Mira Loma High School
Edith Crawford
San Juan Unified School District
3738 Walnut Ave.
P.O. Box 477
Carmichael, CA 95609
CONNECT: Foreign Language Assistance Program in
Russian, Japanese and Mandarin
Russian, Japanese and Mandarin
The San Juan Unified School District will offer a
FLAP program called CONNECT to serve 250 grade 6
through 12 students in Russian, Japanese and
Mandarin within a geographic cluster feeder set of
three schools. The project is a collaborative effort
with community resources and businesses that support
bilingual proficiency in the region as part of the
global economy. The project will provide intensive
academic language development at different
proficiency levels based on flexible and
outcome-based results, both through regular courses
taught in schooled day and extended learning time in
summer and after school.
Castroville Elementary School
Laurie Bloom-Sweeney
11161 Merritt St.
Castroville, CA 95012
Castroville Elementary School Two-Way Immersion
Program
Spanish
Castroville Elementary School Two-Way Immersion
Program will improve and expand their current
project through the implementation of a project
designed to ensure that all students meet the
National Foreign Language Standards in Spanish. The
majority of students currently enrolled are
native-Spanish speaking English Learners. A small
number of students are English Proficient. The
project will fund Spanish classes from parents,
teachers and any interested members of the
community. The program will build capacity among the
teaching faculty to present an academically
rigorous, language-rich program for our studies.
Ada Harris Elementary School
Chris Wilson
Cardiff School District
Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA 92007-2313
Cardiff Foreign Language Project
Spanish
Spanish FLES program designed to supplement a
current parent-funded 3 year-old program, to help it
become self-sustaining.
Chico Unified School District
Janet Brinson
1163 East 7th Street
Chico, CA 95928-5999
Proyecto LEER - Spanish Immersion Program
Spanish
Heritage Elementary School
Chula Vista Elementary School District
Patricia Ludi
Chula Vista, CA 91910
The Spanish Foreign Language Millennium Project
Spanish
Spanish FL Millennium project based on regional and
school/community needs. Serves students K-6 in Chula
Vista SD, on the US/Mexican border.
Collins Elementary School
Cupertino Union School District
Mary Jew
10301 Vista Drive
Cupertino, CA 95014-2091
Mandarin Chinese
Grantee plans to continue to develop and improve its
program design, Chinese curriculum and assessment
tools that will be available for dissemination and
duplication within the district and for other
interested districts. The development of a Mandarin
oral, reading and writing rubric; a standards-based
report card for the Chinese components and an annual
district developed standardized Chinese language
areas and reading test are being piloted and will
need to be further developed and improved. Project
proposes a six-month to one-year planning period.
Alvin S. Hatch Elementary School
Cabrillo Unified School District
Elizabeth Schuck
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019-0167
PROJECT ELEVARSE (to rise above)
Spanish
The major goal of Project Elevarse will be to expand
and enhance the sequential study of a foreign
language for students in grades K-12 through the
Two-Way Immersion Program. In order to achieve this
goal, a cohesive, integrated curriculum will be
established from kindergarten to twelfth grade.
Nestor Elementary School
South Bay Union School District
Raquel Tellez
Imperial Beach, Ca 91932-2098
Foreign Language Academy at Nestor School
Spanish
The Foreign Language Academic at Nestor (FLAN) is a
program aimed at helping the non-native and native
English speaking students reach the highest level of
excellence in bilingual proficiency and biliteracy.
This program will offer students in grades K-6
access to a successful two-way language instruction
program, integrating the content standards and using
this opportunity to better incorporate the foreign
language standards into the curriculum.
Amelia Earhart (magnet)
Washignton (charter)
Darlene Dolan
Desert Sands Unified School District
47-950 Dune Palms Road
La Quinta, CA 92253-4000
Desert Sands Unified School District Foreign
Language Project
Spanish
Project will provide systematic, sequential
instruction in Spanish to approximately 1600
children enrolled in grades K-5 at Amelia Earhart, a
magnet school, and at Washington, a public charter
school. Both will accept applications from students
resident anywhere in the district of Desert Sands
Unified School.
John Burroughs Middle School
Peary Middle School
Fairfax High School
Los Angeles Unified School District
Sandra Kim
333 S. Beaudry Ave., Floor 25
Los Angeles, CA 90017-5104
Secondary Korean/English Dual Language Program (SKDLP)
Korean
Program will provide Korean language instruction for
150 non-Korean and 200 Korean and Korean heritage
language students. Teachers and students will be
provided with innovative technology for studying the
Korean language via a web based computer-assisted
language learning program.
Wilton Place Elementary
24th Street Elementary
Los Angeles Unified School District
Robert Samples
450 North Grand Ave., Room A-413
Los Angeles, CA 90012-2123
Project ADD - Attaining Dual-language Development
Korean
This Russian and English dual language immersion
program, ADD, will target both EO and EL students
who are native speakers of the foreign language. The
instructional plan calls for the implementation of a
model that provides sequential foreign language
studies building on the success of the Korean DLP
lead school in the district. Parent and teacher
participation will be an integral part of this
intensive academic instructional program.
Ann Street Elementary School
Renee Fuentes-Campa
126 E. Bloom Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Foreign Language in the Content Areas
Spanish
Purpose of grant is to establish a FL program, K-5
at Ann Street Elementary School. Program will be a
content-based dual language approach.
Montara Dual-Language Academy
Los Angeles Unified School District
Juliana Dawson
333 S. Beaudry
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Montara Dual Language Academy
Spanish
A dual language program designed to promote
proficiency in both Spanish and English. The Dual
Language Academy will promote high levels of
academic achievement while acquiring bilingual and
bicultural skills.
Los Alisos Intermediate School
Laguna Hills High School
Dr. Gloria Reuben
25631 Peter A. Hartman Way
Mission Viejo, CA 92691
Two-Way Language Immersion Program Improvement and
Expansion for Los Alisos Intermediate and Laguna
Hills High Schools
Spanish
The purpose of the grant is to provide additional
components of leadership, collaboration,
articulation, curriculum development, materials,
training, and support for the secondary Two-Way
Language Immersion Program.
Napa Valley Language Academy
McPherson Elementary
Harvest Middle School
Deborah Wallace
Napa Valley Unified School District
1015 Kaiser Rd.
Napa, CA 94559
Project SPAN - Spanish Proficiency and Acquisition
in Napa
Spanish
The main focus of this project will be to establish
a program that will build capacity and stand by
itself after the funding period. The program has
four goals: 1)Project students will gain proficiency
in a foreign language (Spanish) through an
innovative two-way immersion model beginning in
kindergarten and continuing through the eighth
grade. 2) Students will use their language skills
both within and beyond the school setting to serve
their school and community through outreach projects
and community service alongside native speakers of
the target language. 3)All staff will have the
instructional skills, language proficiency, cultural
understanding and on-going standards-based training
to be optimally effective with students learning a
foreign language and to maintain and expand the
program beyond its funding period. 4)Project parents
will participate in annual events and ongoing
activities that bring together native speakers of
Spanish and English in mutually beneficial
partnerships.
Piedmont Unified School District
Linda Lei
760 Magnolia Ave.
Piedmont, CA 94611
PUSD Mandarin Project
Mandarin
The PUSD proposes to strengthen and expand their
Chinese (Mandarin) language program. The PUSD
Mandarin project responds to the desires of many
families in the community who see Mandarin skills as
beneficial assets for their youngsters and to the
district's mission and strategic plan. They will
work with the Piedmont Language School to provide
all students in grades K-12 opportunities for
sequential study of Mandarin.
Bear Flag Elementary School
Linda Ventriglia
Sacramento City Unified School District
520 Capitol Mall
Sacramento, CA 95812
Bear Flag Dual Language Immersion Project
Spanish
The project is designed to being with a 50-50
Spanish-English dual language program in
kindergarten during the first year. The project will
serve 40 students during the first year and will
sequentially incorporate an additional grade each
year with a target of transforming into K-6 model
dual language school within a six-year period.
Herbert Hoover Middle School
Christina Yun
San Francisco Unified School District
2290 14th Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94116
Multicultural Tapestry Project
Cantonese, Japanese, Spanish
The overarching goal of the Multicultural Tapestry
Project is to weave together and strengthen the
various threads that make up the Chinese and Spanish
two-way immersion programs and the Japanese language
bilingual enrichment program in grade 6 - 8. The
project's key innovation is development of a
Web-based model technology to communicate in
Chinese, Spanish and Japanese with classrooms and
communities around the world and across generations
here at home. The project will include
intergenerational interviews, community service,
international Internet communication and a Web-based
magazine.
Luther Burbank School District
Jan Kaay
4 Wabash Ave.
San Jose, CA 95128
Foreign Language Acquisition Pre K - 8
Spanish
The purpose of the project is to establish a Spanish
Elementary Foreign Language Program that serves
students in Pre-K to 8. The program model will be a
foreign language approach emphasizing Spanish
language arts. The first year, the program will be
implemented in Pre-K - 2. The second year, the
program will move to grades 3 - 5. The final year of
the grant program will be implemented in grades 6 -
8. Once the program is implemented, the district
will have the resources to continue the project.
Los Flores Elementary School
Linda Mulhaupt
Capistrano Unified School District
32972 Calle Perfecto
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Chinese Language and Culture Program: Comprehensive
K-12 foreign language program in Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin Chinese
The CUSD is proposing to implement a foreign
language program at the Chinese Cultural Center at
Las Flores Elementary School. This is a
comprehensive K-12 Chinese language and culture
program offering a national demonstration site. The
CUSD would like to continue this program for three
more years. The purpose of the project is to provide
the opportunity for elementary students to acquire
native like proficiency in a foreign language. The
project will teach Chinese to kindergarten and six
graders which are not currently being offered.
Salinas City Elementary School District
Juvenal Luza-Zamora
840 South Main Street
Salinas, CA 93901-1699
Project SOLITO (I Can Do Anything!) Success
Opportunities for Learning Instruction & Technology
Spanish
The Salinas City Elementary School District is
intending to implement a foreign language program
called SOLITO. The project mirrors a similar program
in Los Padres Elementary School. It is based on the
Dual Language Model of sequential foreign language
study. The goal of the project is to provide student
achievement and proficient in English and Spanish
guided by ongoing professional development.
Cesar Chavez Charter School
Jody Weincek
Santa Barbara Elementary School District
720 Santa Barbara Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Espaņol Vivo (Spanish Alive!)
Spanish
The Cesar Estrada Chavez Dual Immersion Charter
School is developing an innovative model program
emphasizing Spanish Language mastery and cultural
learning within a 50:50 Dual Language Immersion
program. Currently completing its third year, the
Cesar Chavez Charter School is expanding its
capacity to serve the children of Santa Barbara.
Espaņol Vivo links non-native English speakers in
the community with the school in order to promote
two-way language learning and it promotes the
sequential study of a foreign language for students
beginning in kindergarten and maintains continuity
in learning through grade 6.
Walnut Valley Unified School District
Margaret Vera and Diva Abel
880 S. Lemon Ave.
Walnut, CA 91789
Sacar Adelante a los Hijos (To Give Children a Good
Education in Life)
Spanish
WVSUD plans to provide elementary students with
strong communication skills in Spanish and an
understanding of cultures that use the language so
that they can become bilingual.
Beamer Elementary School
Aida Buelna
Woodland Joint Unified School District
630 Cottonwood Street
Woodland, CA 95695-3615
Beamer Schoolwide Bilingual Dual Immersion Program
Spanish
Beamer Elementary School's proposal plans to serve
420 students via a (75/25) dual immersion program.
The school currently chose to expand a current dual
immersion program from a 90/10 model to better serve
the current student population.
Connecticut
Greenwich Public Schools
Christopher Winters
290 Greenwich Ave.
Greenwich, CT 06830
Building on Success: The Expansion of the Greenwich
Public Schools Elementary Foreign Language Program
Spanish, French
This program is content based, collaborative and
integrated with core subject. It is intended for
staffing, curriculum development, training and
coordination.
Norwalk Public Schools
Dr. Eva Diaz-Edwards
125 East Ave.
PO Box 6001
Norwalk, CT 06852-6001
Mano-a-Mano K-8
Spanish
This Mano-a-Mano Two-way immersion program will be
expanded from K-3 to include grades 4 through 8. In
fall 2003, the two-way program will enroll students
in grades K-4 in a total of 10 classrooms. The
program uses 50% English instruction and 50% Spanish
instruction. In addition, a concurrent FLES program
for all students at Silvermine Elementary School
will be implemented. The first year will be used to
plan and put into place the curriculum guides,
assessment tools, classroom materials and training
needed to initiate a successful FLES program and
expand to the middle school level.
Florida
School Board of Broward County, Florida
Vilma Diaz
600 S.E. Third Ave.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Project FLOURISH - Foreign Language Opportunities
Using Research-based Instruction in Spanish
(FLOURISH)
Spanish
This project proposes to implement a unique FLAP
project called FLOURISH which includes several
approaches: 1) the development of the K-12 Foreign
Language Spanish Guide; 2) an intensive in-service
training and summer institutes to provide techniques
and strategies to ensure successful foreign language
instruction; 3) special training for certification
in foreign language (Spanish) for new elementary
teachers, and 4) Reading Endorsement for current
foreign language teachers.
Georgia
Bryant Elementary
Dr. Evelyne Barker
Cobb County School District
514 Glover Street
Marietta, GA 30060-1088
Amistad Project
Spanish
The Cobb Country School District will institute a
K-5 elementary foreign language program at Bryant
Elementary School to serve as a model for
replication within the system. The foreign language
program will be modeled on the Georgia Elementary
School Foreign Language Model Program already in
existence at 19 schools throughout the state. Every
student in grades K-5 will receive 30 minutes of
daily Spanish instruction.
Illinois
Westwood Elementary
Mary Endres Elementary
Woodstock Community Unit School District
Linda B. Spangrud
277 West Judd Street
Woodstock, IL 60098
Project JUNTOS - Learning Language and Culture
Together
Spanish
Project JUNTOS will establish a two-way immersion
program (Spanish/English) comprised of 50% English
speaking students and 50% Spanish speaking students.
Iowa
Wes Des Moines Community School District
Dr. Phyllis Staplin
3550 Mills Civic Parkway
West Des Moines, IA 50265-5556
Expansion, Enrichment and Professional Development
of Foreign Language in the K-12 Curriculum
Spanish
The West Des Moines Elementary Spanish Program
presently serves all 3,921 elementary students in
grades 1 - 6 at the 10 elementary schools in the
district. The project will expand and link the FLES
program to kindergarten and 7th grade. Mandatory
participation in the program will extend from grades
1 through 7 and voluntary participation through
grade 12.
Kansas
Blue Valley School District #229
Diane DeNoon
15020 Metcalf Ave.
Overland Park, KS 66283-0901
Blue Valley K-12 Foreign Language Articulation
Project
Spanish, French, German and Latin
Kentucky
Jefferson County Public Schools
Van Hoose Education Center
Gregory Fulkerson
P.O. Box 34020
Louisville, KY 40232-4020
Bringing the Vision into Focus
French and Spanish
This project calls for a partnership with the
Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) and Kentucky
Educational Television (KET) to develop
content-based, literacy-focused French and Spanish
distance learning courses that can be replicated in
other states and districts.
Maryland
Montgomery County Public Schools
Pamela Garcia
850 Hungerford Dr.
Rockville, MD 20850
Enhancing Immersion Programs K-8
French, Spanish and Chinese
The purpose of this three-year project is to promote
student achievement of national standards in foreign
language, reading/language arts, science and social
studies through improvement of existing 8 immersion
programs. The project will enhance the professional
skills of staff and develop instruction materials
and assessments for the foreign language immersion
program of MCPS and other districts of the US.
Wellwood International School
Baltimore County Public Schools
Susan Spinnato
6901 Charles Street
Towson, MD 21204
Foreign Language Assistance Program
French
The project proposes to implement a French Foreign
Language in the Elementary School (FLES) program at
Wellwood International School for a group of
approximately 400 students. The project occurs in
two phases over three years: immediate
implementation of a K-2 FLES program in fall 2003,
using district funded staff in existing curriculum
to be followed by phases in implementation of FLES
K-2 end of year assessments and FLES 3 - 5
curriculum and assessments.
Michigan
Dearborn Academy
Paul Bailey
19310 Ford Road
Dearborn, MI 48128-2403
Arabic Foreign Language Elementary School Program
Arabic
The program is intended to improve and expand the
elementary Arabic language study for its K-8
students. 86% of the student enrollment have
emigrated from Arabic and Chaldean countries in the
Middle East. The current Arabic foreign language
program has been supported without financial support
from the Michigan Dept. of Education.
International Academy of Flint
International Charter School of Schenectady
Traci Cormier
2820 South Saginaw Street
Flint, MI 48503
Spanish Accelerated Reader Book Club Program
Spanish
The schools will run a Spanish Book Club program
with its current program. The book club will have
three components: 1)Accelerated Reader (AR), a
research based program; 2)Reading Buddies; and
3)Guest Readers. Students will earn points for
reading books and passing the comprehension tests
that accompany the books. An AR Store will allow
students to append the earned points to buy school
supplies, or they could allow their points to be
used for credit towards a Spanish related field
trip.
St. Clair County Intermediate School District
Cynthia E. Banach
499 Range Road
Port Huron, MI
Languages for Life
Spanish
Grand Traverse Academy
Kaye Mentley
1245 Hammond Road E
Traverse City, MI 49686
Project Grand Traverse Academy
Spanish
Project Grand Traverse Academy (GTA) will expand and
enhance the current K-8 school enrollment and the
School's Spanish language curriculum to product a
highly articulated and sequenced course of
instruction that will provide every GTA student
(including students with special needs) with 14
years of continuous Spanish language instruction.
Warren Consolidated Schools
Nancy Diamond
Cheryle Priemer
31300 Anita
Warren, MI 48903
Cultures and Languages in our Neighborhoods (CALION)
Arabic, Russian
Project CALION is designed to offer after school
instruction for first through eighth grades in
Arabic and Russian with native language speakers as
instructors and university interns as tutors. The
district believes that Project CALION will provide
opportunities for community members and parents to
showcase their heritage, or Arabic and Russian
children to have instruction in their home language,
and for English only students to have access to a
quality foreign language course.
Minnesota
South Washington County School District 833
David Bernhardson
7362 East Point Douglas Road South
Cottage Grove, MN 55016-3025
South Washington County Schools Spanish Immersion
Program
Spanish
South Washington County Schools is proposing to
implement a full K-1 Spanish immersion program.
Special School District 1
Minneapolis Public Schools
Gaelle Berg
807 NE Broadway
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Bridging Instruction in Arabic Language and Culture
Arabic
The Bridging Instruction in Arabic Language and
Culture (BIALC) program will expand Arabic language
learning to encompass three levels of learning at
the high school level. The program will be
articulated to the University of Minnesota Arabic
program, and build exposure to Arabic
language/culture at the middle school level. Staff
will develop and disseminate new standards-based,
proficiency-orientated curriculum and assessments.
Russell Public Schools
Bruce Houck
3rd & Prairie
Russell, MN
Project FACES (Future Achievement with Community
Elementary Spanish)
Spanish
Russell Public Schools will partner with South West
State University, in IN-Vision project, Russell and
Tyler Elementary Schools, and Heartland Foods turkey
processing plant to implement the FACES. The purpose
is to teach both English and Spanish speaking K-6
and staff development.
Ruthton Public Schools
Bruce Houck
100 Harrison St.
Ruthton, MN 56170
Project FACES (Future Achievement with Community
Elementary Spanish)
Spanish
The purpose of FACES is to enhance the future of all
children in Ruthton and Lake Benton Minnesota with
sequential foreign language study. Both English and
Spanish speaking K-6 students will be served.
Saint Paul Public Schools
Joann Knuth
360 Colborne Street
Saint Paul, MN 55102
Saint Paul Foreign Language Assistance Program
Spanish
The Saint Paul Public Schools, in partnership with
the Center for Advanced Research on Language
Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota,
is planning a comprehensive articulation and
alignment of its K-12 Spanish Immersion program.
New Hampshire
SAU #58
Sherwood Fluery
8 Preble Street
Groveton, NH 03582
French and Spanish
A cooperative effort to establish and sustain
foreign language instruction in French and Spanish
with a three-fold approach: 1) to provide teachers
in 3 rural NH districts the knowledge, techniques
and strategies needed to integrate fundamental
instruction in foreign language and cultures into
the curriculum; 2) to establish and sustain a world
language program for students 1 - 8 in two district
in Northern New Hampshire, and 3) to establish a
world language program, grades 1 - 12 in Stark, and
to enhance the language program currently in place
in Groveton and Stratford high school.
Mont Vernon School District
Bob St. Cyr
PO Box 849
1 School Street
Amherst, NH 03031-0349
PROMISE: Promoting Rigorous Opportunities Mindful of
Inspiring Student Excellence
Spanish and French
The project intends to meet the general standards
for world languages set forth by ACTFL in terms of
culture and communication. The main objective is to
implement the national standards for foreign
language learning, so that at the end of the project
there will be a full sequential program K-6 that is
integrated and coordinated with the present
opportunities open to all students beginning in 7th
grade at Amherst middle school. This project
includes intensive summer professional development
for the teachers at the Mont Vernon Village School,
specifically in the area of integrating foreign
language instruction into other curriculum areas.
New Jersey
East Brunswick Public Schools
Mary Mackenzie
760 Route 18
East Brunswick, NJ 08816
CAPS - Consortium for Assessing Performance
Standards - a framework for measuring achievement in
foreign languages
French, Spanish, German, Italian and Latin
Hackettstown Public Schools
Joanne Calabro
315 Washington Street
Hackettstown, NJ 07840-0465
Project HOPE (Hackettstown Outreach for Pluralistic
Enrichment)
Spanish
Newark Public Schools
Nancy Lutzke
2 Cedar Street
Newark, NJ 07102
Language Instruction for Future Excellence (LIFE)
Spanish
This project proposes to improve and expand its
foreign language education program. Project LIFE
will promote the sequential study of Spanish, to
link non-English speaking, Spanish students and
community members to provide an intensive Summer
Foreign Language Professional Development Institute
for its two-way immersion and FLES-Spanish
instructional staff. The project will facilitate
Spanish as a second language, Latino cultures, are,
music literature and politics to its majority
heritage language, non-Spanish speaking, and African
American, English dominant elementary student
population.
New York
Community School District One, Region Nine
Dr. Barbara Slatin
80 Montgomery Street
New York, NY 10002
Language Matters: Promoting Second Language
Instruction n the Elementary School
Mandarin Chinese, Spanish
The program will provide additional instruction in
the form of tutorials to the student population that
currently does not attain Chinese language
proficiency grade level at the Shuang Wen School.
The program will further extend foreign language
instruction for all elementary students, grades
Pre-L through 6 at The Island School. Both school
propose to develop online portfolios to assess and
document students' linguistic and cognitive growth
over time. The program will also provide cross
cultural Chinese and Spanish language activities and
experiences by forging partnership with cultural
institutions that specialize in Chinese and Spanish
language culture, history and art.
North Carolina
Cumberland County Schools
George Ellis
PO Box 2357
Fayetteville, NC
28301-2357
Cumberland County Schools will implement a
sequential K - 12 Foreign Language Assistance
Program at four schools.
Spanish, French, Latin and German
Oregon
Eugene School District 4J
Abby Lane
200 North Monroe
Eugene, OR 97402-4295
Proud to be Bilingual: Expanding and Enhancing
Foreign Language Opportunity in Eugene School
District 4J
Japanese, French and Spanish
Eugene School District is proposing to expand on a
FLES program that has been implemented in the
district for several years.
Pennsylvania
Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit
Linda S. Cook
252 Waterford Street
Edinboro, PA 16412-2315
Northwestern Pennsylvania Elementary Foreign
Language Assistance Program
Spanish
Under the guidance of the Advisory Council and the
work of a full-time Project Coordinator, a
comprehensive K-6 Spanish curriculum (with content
and skills benchmarks, formative assessment
strategies, summative assessments, instruction
strategies, interventions, and core supplemental
resources) will be developed in year 1 and
implemented in all Kindergarten classrooms beginning
in year 2 and all grade 1 classroom beginning in
year 3. The participating school districts' school
boards will adopt this curriculum.
Borough of Morrisville School District
Michelle Robin
550 West Palmer St.
Morrisville, PA 19067-2195
Expanding Learning Through World Language: An
Elementary Learning Community
Spanish/French
The Morrisville School District (MSD) will institute
a dynamic immersion model program of world language
instruction that will be fully integrated into its
existing elementary school instruction curriculum
and "learning culture" to insure its continuation
beyond the grant period. The district will support
and nurture the high school students through a
process of "independent study" and institute a
"mentoring" model of peer to peer coaching through
which "advanced proficient" high school language
students will interact with elementary school
students.
School District of Philadelphia
John Krause
2120 Winter Street, Room 402
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Expansion of Chinese as a foreign language program
(K-8)
Chinese
The purpose of this project is to expand the
Nebinger School to include all students through
grade 8 by year three of the 2003 FLAP grant cycle
by promoting a sequential study of Chinese beginning
in Kindergarten by making use of computer
technology, by promoting the study of Chinese
language to include content area subject matter, and
by tripling the size of it's Chinese Literacy Center
by adding grade-level and language-leveled books and
publications that widen the breadth of students'
reading experiences.
High Tech High Philadelphia Charter School
Deborah Stern
35 South 4th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
High Tech High Philadelphia Foreign Language Program
Spanish
High Tech High Philadelphia (HTHP) proposes to
design an innovative Spanish foreign language
program that will provide a model for other urban
schools interested in establishing an effective,
standards-based foreign language program that
immerses students in new cultures, uses technology,
and works with community partners.
School of District of Pittsburgh
Dr. Thekla Fall
341 S. Bellefield Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3516
Bringing the Technology Tools of the 21st Century to
the Foreign Language Classroom
A district-wide program to mainstream and modernize
PPS's FL program and integrate standards based
testing.
South Carolina
Rock Hill School District Three
Sheila Huckabee
660 N. Anderson Rd.
Rock Hill, SC 29730
Elementary Foreign Language Distance Learning
Program
Spanish, French and German
The Elementary Foreign Language Distance Learning
Program will be the result of a partnership of Rock
Hill school district Three, the State Department of
Education, and South Carolina Education Television
to develop French, German, and Spanish foreign
language instruction for grades 3 - 5. Each student
will receive 100-125 minutes of weekly instruction.
Days 1 - 3 will be 25 minutes of taped lessons, day
4 will be a 25-minute interactive session, and day 5
is an optional 25-minute session on site.
Tennessee
Shelby County Schools
Dr. Suzanne Klyman
160 S. Hollywood St.
Memphis, TN 388112-4801
Project U.S.A. (Understanding Spanish Altogether)
Spanish
Project U.S.A. will pilot a comprehensive program of
Spanish instruction and provide professional
development/experience for current classroom
teachers to meet state employability standards. The
project has selected the Northern Arizona University
"Elementary Spanish" program as the foundation from
which to build its instruction. The program will
integrate direct instruction, video lessons and
teacher led activities, all of which will be
integrated with the district's curriculum maps for
each grade.
Texas
Aldine Independent School District
Laura Lagos
14910 Aldine Westfield Rd.
Houston, TX 77032
Lideres de Manana/Leaders of Tomorrow
Spanish
The purpose of the Aldine ISD FLAP Grant is to
establish a Spanish Elementary foreign language
program in two Aldine Independent School District
Elementary Schools; Carroll Academy (K - 4) and
Harris Academy School (K - 4), and to develop a dual
language program at Northwest Intermediate School
(5th and 6th grade).
Houston Independent School District (HISD)
Ada Cooper
3830 Richmond Ave.
Houston, TX 77027-5802
Kolter Elementary School FLAP
French, Japanese, Spanish
The Kolter Languages/Cultures Program was
established in 1985 to provide elementary students
in HISD with the opportunity to study a foreign
language - Spanish, French, and Japanese. The
program is unique in that all students in the school
participate in the study of a language for a six
years. It is now time to re-examine this successful
program in light of the National Standards for
Foreign Languages and the changes in foreign
language instruction. The staff seeks assistance
from FLAP to upgrade the program and strengthen the
K - 12 continuum with Johnston Middle School and
Bellaire High School.
Virginia
Poquoson City Schools
Judith McDowell
PO Drawer 2068
500 City Hall Ave.
Poquoson, VA 23662-0068
Language Instruction for Everyone (LIFE): A
Comprehensive Content-Infused Spanish Program for
All Students
Spanish
The LIFE program will improve and expand the current
Spanish program to all students in grades 3 - 8. The
program plans to develop and refine curriculum,
increase teacher training, increase opportunities
for Spanish use throughout the school day, develop
formal student assessments, develop a program for
transfer students, increase parent/community
involvement, and disseminate program information.
Washington
Tacoma Public Schools
Karyn Clarke and Terry Boucke
601 S. 8th Street
Tacoma, WA 98401
Tacoma School District K-8 Three Language Immersion
Sheridan/Stewart Immersion Program
Japanese, Spanish and French
Tacoma School District is proposing to implement a
partial immersion program model. The Sheridan
Elementary School of International Language has
already in place a K-5 language immersion program
that instructs students in either Japanese, Spanish,
French or English 50% of the time. This new project
will improve and expand the three-language model to
Stewart Middle School. The purpose is to improve the
current K-5 program. This Title III program will
provide intensive summer and continuing immersion
language teaching staff development in the use of
the NFLS standards providing Kindergarten
near-native language models. The major goals are: 1)
to establish the sustain a three language partial
immersion K-8 program; 2) to improve the quality of
the K-8 French, Spanish and Japanese immersion
programs; 3) to increase students' proficiency in
reading, writing comprehending, and communicating in
the target language, and 4) to increase cultural
understanding and appreciation.
Vancouver Public Schools
Jerry Roberts
PO Box 8937
2901 Falk Rd.
Vancouver, WA 98668-8937
RARE - Roosevelt Acquiring Russian for Everyone
Russian
The RARE project at Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary
School will implement an integrated approach to
language and cross-cultural education at the
elementary level. ERES uses an integrated
ESL/Bilingual approach through the instruction
program. With training in Russian and in language
strengthening strategies, the professionals will be
able to provide appropriate and meaningful
instruction to all students at different levels of
acculturation and optimize the learning environment
during content instruction.
Vashon Island School District 402
20414 Vashon Hwy SW
Vashon, WA 98070
Diane Kehm
Vashon Island School District Japanese Language &
Culture Programs
Japanese
The Japanese Language and Culture Program is the
Vashon Island School district will offer two
additional sections of Japanese 2, introduce
Advanced Japanese (Japanese 4), provide a teacher in
residency to lead foreign language in K-5 classes,
create scholarships for high school language
learners, and develop a World Languages class for
middle and high school students. The goals of the
program are to increase the number of foreign
language education and enrichment opportunities for
students in grades 9 -12; and to establish foreign
language learning opportunities for students K-8
grade.
Washington, DC
District of Columbia Public Schools
Lisa Tabaku
825 N. Capitol Street, NE
Union Square
Washington, DC 20002
DC Aprende
Spanish
The purpose of DC Aprende project is to create a
support system for the implementation of two-way
immersion program in elementary schools within the
District of Columbia Public School (DCPS). The
program tasks are 1) to develop a model
research-based (Spanish-English) two-way immersion,
(dual language) early childhood program at the Henry
D. Cooke Elementary School; 2) to create a two-way
immersion cohort of schools that will work together,
under the guidance of DC Aprende staff, to implement
two-way immersion programs in the four cohort
schools; 3) to develop two-way immersion institute
at the Henry D. Cook Elementary School which will
serve as the training site for the two-way immersion
cohort as well as a center for dissemination of
information to parents and community members about
the Aprende project. In the court of completing the
above tasks, DC Aprende will achieve the following
two goals: 1) to increase Spanish proficiency of DC
Aprende students; 2) to build the capacity of DCPS
to provide-two way immersion education at the
elementary level.
Wisconsin
Madison Metropolitan School District
Mary Ramberg
545 West Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53703-1995
Elementary Foreign Language for Bilingual Education
Spanish
This project plans to develop a model K-5 Spanish
language program, and to establish a long-term
relationship with the University of
Wisconsin-Madison (UW), which will provide for the
training of future and current elementary schools
teachers with add-on certification in Spanish. The
strategy is a new type of "limited immersion
approach" with involves the inclusion of both
English and Spanish-speaking students in Spanish
language classes during the regular school day (30
minutes 4 to 5 times a week). The second strategy is
called "teacher training through peer student
teaching." A new form of teacher education first
tested in Canada, through which teachers in training
are able to begin teaching the subject matter
immediately, without the need for a conventional
cooperating teacher.
