Where in el mundo is El Valle

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Where in el mundo is El Valle?

• Introductions
• Dillon Valley Elementary School
• P.O. Box 4788
• Dillon, CO 80435
• Web site
• Email
• gjones_at_summit.k12.co.us
• ldavison_at_summit.k12.co.us
• smartinez_at_summit.k12.co.us
• dgriffith_at_summit.k12.co.us

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One Semester of Spanish Spanish Love Song
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Central Idea

• Communities can close the achievement gap in an
  economically segregated neighborhood by valuing
  language learners equally.
• Inquiry into
• Changing demographics and the inherent challenges
• Best instructional practice
• Beliefs about how children learn best
• Collaborative planning model
• Aspects of a Dual Immersion model
• Professional development strategies
• Language acquisition

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The Tipping Point

• Changing demographics
• White Flight
• Academic achievement
• Curriculum Mapping

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Challenging the status quo

• The Primary Years Programme
• The Dual Immersion program
• Internationalism living the learner profile
• Dispelling myths
• Nurturing collective efficacy
• Partners with the community

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Language Policy

• A collaborative look at the research, our
  experiences and what we believe and understand
  about how children learn language best

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Training

• Formal PYP Training (Introduction, collaboration,
  assessment, inquiry, internationalism)
• School in-service and summer academy (reading
  strategies, implementing the PYP, planner
  writing, The Art of Inquiry)
• Book studies each semester (Black Ants and
  Buddhists, Reading With Meaning, A Framework for
  Understanding Poverty)
• IBARMS workshops state wide

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Collaborative Planning

• Weekly for planning
• Every 6 weeks with specialists with to discuss
  planners
• Grade level meetings weekly to discuss childrens
  progress (RTI)
• Weekly PLC early release time

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Dual Immersion at Dillon Valley

• Currently K-2, adding 3rd grade next
• Kindergarten
• 1st and 2nd grades
• Literacy and planners

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Issues and Strengths

• Staffing
• Recruiting highly qualified teachers to live in
  our mountain community
• Training effective teachers to become language
  teachers
• Community Outreach
• Parent Involvement

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Professional Development

• 2 day training in August
• Quarterly Meetings
• TRPS before school
• Summer

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Second Language Acquisition

• Focus on the Acquisition rather than Learning

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Fluency
Comprehensible Input
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Comprehensible Input

• Reading or listening
• Message must be in the Target Language
• Message must be understandable
• 100 comprehensible
• Listening leads to speaking
• Dont force output skills

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Comprehensible Input

• Repetitive
• Funny
• Personal
• Repetitive
• Engaging
• Weird or strange
• Repetitive

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TPR Storytelling

• Teaching
• Proficiency through
• Reading and
• Stories

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First Grade Stories
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• Second Grade Spontaneous Speech

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Use of iPods
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Why?

• Great comprehensible input for our students
• Authentic listening resource
• Easy to use
• Ability to create what works for you as a teacher
  and replicate it for future use
• Great professional development tool for language
  teachers
• Showcase your program!

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Focus on certain structure
Quiere que vaya
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Showcasing Student Work

• Ipod Nano
• Carrying Case
• Contract
• Grant opportunities

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Questions
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