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Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School


Academic and International Exchange Program
between Salamanca, Castilla y León, Spain and
Chula Vista, California, USA Education without
Frontiers


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Objective and Collaborating Institutions

• The goal is to establish a program that begins
  with primary
• students up to the university level. We wish to
  create a consciousness in
• the student body that makes them aware of the
  advantages of becoming
• biliterate, bilingual, and bicultural, and to
  further emphasize the importance
• of higher education as a tool for success. Having
  this mindset at
• an early age will give students the opportunity
  to establish a clear
• vision toward academic and life-long objectives.
• Collaborating institutions
• Elementary Chula Vista Learning Community
  Charter
• Middle School Rancho del Rey
• High School Open
• IES Federico García Bernalt and Tierra de
  Ciudad Rodrigo
• University UCSD Dr. Christine Hunefeldt and
  Ruth Padrón,CILAS
• University USAL Dr. Manuel Alcántara, Vice
  Chancellor of International Relations

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Reasons to Support the Program Education without
Frontiers

• a. The understanding of a language that is
  distinct from the individuals primary language
  contributes to the overall development of
  adolescence. Therefore, the study and practice of
  English and Spanish is indispensable in this day
  and age as society becomes increasingly aware of
  globalization.
• b. The importance of bilingualism
  (English/Spanish) is essential based on the
  following facts English being the official
  language for international relations and Spanish
  being a language that is largely spoken by more
  than 400 million people.

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c. The ability to acquire a new language develops
an essential characteristic that creates
Tolerance towards other cultures and further
develops a students social and cultural
experiences when collaborating with other
individuals that do not share the same cultural
background. d. Each group of students will have
the opportunity to practice the language being
studied and apply the skills to become fluent in
the language through actual cultural experiences
abroad.
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Content Objectives, Curriculum Areas of Focus and
Activities

• Conceptual Objectives
• a. Carry out oral and written discussions
• scientific, historical, political, cultural,
  technical, etc.
• b. Know the phonological, morphological, lexical,
  
• and textual skills of the language as a
  subject
• for acquisition.
• c. Awareness of the major periods in Literature
  such as plays and authors that have
• represented a major artistic and cultural
  transcendence.
• d. Capable of transferring language skills into
  
• both languages of the subject being
  instructed.

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• Procedural Objectives
• Participate in all lectures conducted throughout
  the program and critically interpret the subject
  of instruction through oral or written form.
• Express through oral or written from the diverse
  methods of communication.
• Analyze linguistic situations by observing the
  diversity in language.
• Utilize language, either orally or in written
  form.
• Interpret literary plays, identifying the
  components that form it artistic content, and
  understanding the figurative language of the time
  period.
• Research and utilize appropriate references of
  study in the subject matter.
• Critically analyze the different uses of language
  in social settings.

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• Behavior Objectives
• Develop individual style of expression and a
• positive and conscious attitude toward the
  richness
• of bilingualism and biculturalism.
• b. Value the use of language, oral or written.
• c. Appreciate literary plays, identifying the
  components literary plays as a means for
  individual expression, illustration of the world,
  and as a way to discover humanity.
• d. Enjoy literary anthologies as a way to
  acquire
• new learning and experiences to encourage the
  love for reading.
• e. Interpret literary works as a form of artistic
  expression
• and be able to differentiate between
  attitudes that
• perpetuate discriminatory beliefs.

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"Educación sin Fronteras"Exchange/Academic
Program Outline

• First phase
• Beginning in January 2008 the Dual Language/
  Spanish Speaker students will
• be engaged in a technology project entitled
  Global Pals that will involve
• our students regularly communicating with
  students in Spain via email to
• perform specific standards-based activities.
• Second phase
• USA students academic trip to Spain, Spring 2008
  from March 26 to April 5th.
• Third phase
• Spaniard students exchange program to be done
  during the spring of 2008
• a. May 10 to 31st, 2008 for a period of 21 days.
• b. Spaniard students (10-25) will stay with USA
  families whose students
• are participating in the exchange
  program.
• c. Mr. Salas and three Spaniard teachers will
  accompany them.
• d. They will attend Sweetwater secondary school
  for 7-10 days, and 5
• days they will take workshops at UCSD
  CILAS to receive a certificate
• of participation.
• e. The other days they will have cultural
  excursions to L.A. County and
• San Diego County.
• f. All students will participate in a reception
  given by the Embassy and

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• Fourth phase
• USA students exchange program to be done during
  the fall break of 2008
• a. Sept. 13 to Oct. 3, 2008 for a period of
  20-21 days.
• b. USA students (10-25) will stay with Spanish
  families whose
• students are participating in
  the exchange program. Ms. Meza
• will accompany students along
  with Mr. Perez Duque or another
• certificated teacher.
• c. They will attend the Spanish secondary
  school for 7-10 days
• and 5 days they will take workshops at the
  University of
• Salamanca to receive a
  certificate of participation.
• d. The other days they will have cultural
  excursions to the
• Providences of Segovia, Avila,
  and Salamanca.
• Last phase
• a. USA Dual Language students, will attend a
  summer camp at
• UCSD sponsored by CILAS to
  receive a mini course in Iberian
• and Latin American studies.
• b. The parents will also have workshops to
  attend at the
• universities to promote superior
  education and the goal of the
• project "Educación sin
  Fronteras."

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Benefits to the District

• It will promote the Sweetwater Union High School
  Districts vision, beliefs, mission, objectives,
  and strategies.
• It will support the District and Site Strategic
  and Action Plans.
• It will reinforce our commitment to the students
  we serve and whose future we have been entrusted
  to shape with an invincible sense of promise.

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Benefits to Our Students

• Allow students to have a clearer vision of the
  opportunities that are given when one acquires
  another language besides its own.
• Encourage students to develop the skills
  necessary to succeed in higher education and the
  world of work and to be integral citizens of not
  only their own society, but also the global
  society.
• Provide students the opportunity to develop
  cultural appreciation and tolerance through their
  first-hand experiences of studying abroad.

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La Coordinadora del Proyecto, Dña. Lilia Canedo Meza, en Chula Vista, nos remite el calendario lectivo de su distrito escolar. Resulta muy curioso de conocer.        El Coordinador del Proyecto, Dn. Joan M. Salas Sivera, en Salamanca, nos mantiene actualizados en la Web.
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Collaboration Team Manuel Alcántara and Antonio
Tapia, University of Salamanca, Spain Joan
Miguel Salas Sivera, Middle to High School
Education Federico García Bernalt, Spain Teresa
Hernández, Middle to High School Education
Tierra de Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain Francisco Pérez
Duque, Chula Vista Learning Community Charter
School, Chula Vista, California Christine
Hunefeldt and Ruth Padrón, University of
California, San Diego Lilia Meza, Rancho del Rey
Middle School, Chula Vista, California