Tuesday, May 30, 2017

T4B Training: Send us your Biliteracy Anchor Charts




Teaching for Biliteracy Professional Development
Starts August 21, 2017

This four part series will introduce our new DL/EL and WL Spanish Staff to concepts of Multilingual Education in our District.

WE USE YOUR ANCHOR CHARTS TO SUPPORT LEARNING-PLEASE SEND THEM OR PUT THEM ASIDE FOR PICK UP ON JUNE 9th

Friday, May 26, 2017

Thursday Update

May 26, 2017

BUSY, BUSY, BUSY....
Sorry for the silence everyone!


Celebrations!!! Les Paul DL at the State Capitol.


DL ELL Access 2.0
Maria, Marisa and guest Amy Cristianson from CESA 1, worked with our teams to support the use of data based instructional and assessment planning.  Great collaboration! Thanks to everyone for making your preparation is a priority!

Connecting Middle School Science to Soccer-NEW STUDY

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

MAKE HISTORY! First Seal of Biliteracy Honorees in SDW 2017!

Congrats SEAL OF BILITERACY Honorees
Join us June 6th at 7:00pm in the South Auditorium to celebrate the achievements of our  45 Multilingual, Globally Competent Graduates

SDW will graduate SIX seniors who are earning the
Distinguished Seal of Biliteracy in English, and French and Spanish

South High School:
Maricarmen Juarez
Alfonso Lopez
Isabela Ochoa-Rojas
Ricardo Soto-Robles

West High School:
Madelyn Rinka

SDW will graduate NINETEEN seniors who are earning the
Distinguished Seal of Biliteracy in English and Spanish

South High School:
Anabel Aguilera
Angelica Catalan
Alfonso Diaz
Haedy Gorostieta
Jonathan Gutierrez
Lizbeth Macias
Alma Navarrete Salas
Brenda Rodriguez-Gonzalez

North High School:
Areli Angel
Rebekah Janssen
Elvin Jaramillo
Nicole Reinoso

West High School:
Juliet Martinez
Ivonne Mendez
Nick Portz
Edgar Suarez
Rachel Ward
Daniela Zapata

SDW will graduate TWO seniors who are earning the
Distinguished Seal of Biliteracy in English and French

West High School:
Jessica Kuzniewski
Isabel Reams

SDW will graduate ONE senior who are earning the
Distinguished Seal of Biliteracy in English, Nepali and Hindi

South High School:
Sristi Tiwari

SDW will graduate NINE seniors who are earning the
Distinguished Seal of Biliteracy in English and French

South High School:
Anna Allen
Lucy Chapman
Trinity Fandre
Gianna Gemignani-Valoe
Morgan Levene
Ashley Semington

North High School:
Mathew Colgrove
Faith James

West High School:
Paige Louw


SDW will graduate EIGHTEEN seniors who are earning the
Distinguished Seal of Biliteracy in English and Spanish

South High School:
Harshita Bhatt
Briana Becerra
Brandon Gutierrez-Vidales
Jeannette Hernandez

North High School:
Rachel Kain

West High School:
German Ferreira
Annabella Kolinski
Clarissa Wentz


Friday, May 5, 2017

Banting Culture Night!

500 Community and Family members joined students for the 3rd Banting Culture Night!

Thursday Update

May 4, 2017
Multilingual Update

Celebrations:
Our SDW Students will be the first awarded in the State of Wisconsin with the Prestigious Seal of Biliteracy Award!!

NEWS and DATES:
Assessment Windows are open for PALs 4K-2, STAR Spanish Reading (Grades 2-7), AAPPL Spanish Assessment (7th Grade) and end of year Benchmarks for Running Records (Spanish A-L/21, and English Starting in 2nd Grade)

DUAL LANGUAGE BIG ROCKS 2017-2018
Oracy and Meta-linguistic Awareness will remain the big rocks of practice in our department.  Grades 2-5 will focus on the development of these practices in the BUFS and across the curriculum, and K-1 will focus on the development of these practices in ELD and across the curriculum.