Spanish Immersion Emerging at WGE?

February 11th, 2008 → 11:19 pm @ WGx

Word comes this week from Willow Glen Elementary that the school is exploring the possibility of offering a “Spanish Immersion” program, beginning with next year’s Kindergarten classes.

Willow Glen Elementary is exploring the opportunity of offering their entering kinder students the gift of bilingualism and biliteracy to incoming kinder students. If there is interest in this opportunity among the incoming kinder families, a two way immersion strand may begin at Willow Glen Elementary.

Two classes of bilingual immersion and three of English-only would be offered. This program would be expanded one grade level every year until they have a strand of K-5 Two-Way Immersion classrooms. As the immersion program continues, the traditional ALA bilingual program will gradually be replaced with this highly successful model. If you are interested or have questions and your child is starting kindergarten Fall 2008, please attend one of the informational meetings.

Meeting #1: Wednesday, February, 13 @ 9:30 am
Meeting #2: Wednesday, February, 13 @ 7:00 pm

Both are at Willow Glen Elementary School Cafeteria
Baby-sitting will be provided

Of course, WG’s own River Glen School already offers an extensive bilingual immersion program as an SJUSD magnet school, but the waitlist remains quite long for student enrollment.

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2 Comments → “Spanish Immersion Emerging at WGE?”

WG Resident Article ...

2 years ago

The meeting and the emerging proposal is also covered in the February 29 edition of the WG Resident:

The district has been conducting feasibility studies to determine whether Willow Glen and Walter Bachrodt elementary schools could offer such a program at their campuses, and if there is enough demand to warrant the program.

District officials have met with parent groups and staff as well as parents to gauge the reaction to the proposed program.

“Implementation will only happen if the community wants it. This is just the exploratory phase,” said Maria Alzugaray, San Jose Unified School District bilingual resource teacher. “These meetings have been amazingly positive.”

Although, the links in this comment will take you to the RG Resident. The WG Resident website does not have this story. Of course, since the content of the two papers are now almost identical, you probably didn’t notice.
Schools Walking This Weekend

1 year ago

[...] Glen School on Saturday. In honor of River Glen’s Spanish Immersion concept — which may or may not take hold at WG Elementary — WGx wishes both schools luck at their respective Caminatas! addthis_url = [...]