The district will teach Spanish in every elementary school starting in the 2013-14 school year.
Hopkins elementary students are set to receive regular Spanish instruction starting in the 2013-14 school year following a preliminary School Board vote Thursday to establish an elementary world languages curriculum. “World language has been in surrounding districts for several years. We do a great job with teaching kids culture, but it’s not a replacement for teaching kids world languages or languages other than English,” Superintendent John Schultz said. “It’s really the right thing to do in the21st Century. The board’s decision commits the district to spending $6 million over the next 10 years on elementary Spanish instruction. In the initial year, all elementary schools will provide world languages to kindergarteners and first graders…
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Eleven Hopkins High School students will travel to Ometepe, Nicaragua, to deliver portraits of the children.
(The following announcement comes from Hopkins Public Schools.) On June 14, a delegation of 11 Hopkins High School art and Spanish students will travel to Ometepe, Nicaragua to deliver a cherished keepsake to the children living in the Cicrin Orphanage -- a portrait of each child painted by Hopkins AP art students. High school teacher Randi Rood and Spanish teacher Stephanie Owen-Lyons will accompany the students on this nine-day trip. In addition to personally delivering a portrait to each child, Hopkins students will teach the children how to draw and paint using art supplies generously donated by Triarco Arts and Crafts. Students will then travel to León to live simply with Nicaraguan families. They'll learn folkloric painting and …
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Ellen Stewart Dustman
4:50 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
Current research on language acquisition through FLES programs is mixed. Many experts agree that students who participate in a full immersion program starting at a young age are more likely to "speak" fluently. However, adolescents and adults learn languages quicker and are more likely to attain written fluency. FLES programs produce cultural awareness, but do not produce fluency, oral or written… more ›