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2110 Transitional Bilingual Education

TRANSITIONAL BILINGUAL INSTRUCTION

The board has the highest commitment toward ensuring an equal educational opportunity for every student. While English is the basic language of instruction in the district's schools, the district shall provide a transitional bilingual program for children whose primary language is not English, and whose English skills are sufficiently deficient or absent to impair learning.  The district’s transitional bilingual instruction program is designed to enable students to achieve competency in English.

The district and its staff shall:

A.   Communicate, whenever feasible, with parents of students in the bilingual program in a language they can understand; and

B.    Assess and Determine, by means of a state approved placement test, student eligibility within 10 days of enrollment and attendance;

C.   Annually assess, by means of the state approved test, improvement in English language proficiency for each eligible English language learner;

 D.  Provide professional development training for administrators, teachers, counselors, and other staff who are involved in the district's transitional bilingual program, including alternative instructional programs, on appropriate instructional strategies, assessment results, and curriculum and instructional materials for use with culturally and linguistically diverse students.

E.  Provide for continuous improvement and evaluation of the district’s program to determine its effectiveness.

For purposes of providing such services, the superintendent shall establish procedures for implementing the district’s Transitional Bilingual Instruction Program as well as identifying eligible students, evaluating a student's previous course work, and granting credit to a student for purposes of graduation.

 

Legal References:

  • RCW 28A.180.010/080      Transitional Bilingual Instructional Program
  • WAC 392-160                   Transitional Bilingual Instruction Program

 

 

Adoption Date:  08.19.03

Stanwood-Camano School District

Revised:  02.07.17