DUAL LANGUAGE PROGRAM AND INTERNATIONAL SPANISH ACADEMY
Columbia
Heights Education Campus is a dual immersion school supported by the Quality
Schools Initiative Grant. This program
is designed to enrich the education of native English speakers as well as
native world language speakers. Students will take Spanish Language Arts and
further develop their language skills while taking key content courses in
Spanish (currently science and social studies).
The goal is for all students to become proficient in Spanish while
developing cultural awareness in order to promote high levels of academic
achievement. Students will be supported through active learning strategies in
class, after school and summer support.
The dual immersion program begins for all students in 6th grade and
continues for all students through 8th grade.
Students
can then opt into our dual language program at the high school. Students will
continue to develop their language skills in Spanish courses in language and
literature, including advanced placement courses and also in key content
courses. Students will have opportunities
to continue to develop through our rigorous course work and through strategic
partnerships with local universities in order to earn course credit in language
and translation.
Additionally, Columbia Heights Education Campus has been
accepted as part of the network of schools that belong to the International
Spanish Academy. Our program develops
students’ proficiency in reading, writing, speaking and listening in both
Spanish and English. To this end, all language classes are conducted solely in
the target language, Spanish. In addition, all middle school grades take a
science and a social studies class in Spanish.
A ninth grade cohort will be participating in the Spanish academy.