Omaha Public Schools

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1 Omaha Public Schools Dual Language Presentation for the International Spanish Academy Seminar December, 2008 Janelle Mullen Susan Mayberger

2 Where is the Omaha Public Schools?

3 Omaha Public Schools Demographics 48,075 students in Pre-K 12 th grade in 84 schools Caucasian: 40% African American: 31% Hispanic American: 25% Free and Reduced Lunch: 62%

4 Why Dual Language? OPS ESL Enrollment Growth % of our ESL students speak Spanish in the home.

5 Pattern of K-12 Language Minority student achievement on standardized tests in English Reading Average performance of native-english speakers making one year s progress in each consecutive grade Programs Two way Dual Language ESL taught through academic content ESL Pullout taught traditionally Student Achievement Graph

6 Designated as part of the D U A L L A N G U A G E International Spanish Academy Castelar Crestridge Magnet Gomez Heritage Spring Lake Magnet Beveridge Magnet Marrs Magnet One of only ten K-12 DL Programs in US First DL program in NE South High Magnet Total: 1,037 D O S I D I O M A S

7 Program Goals Students will be able to speak, read and write in English and Spanish Reading and Writing Simultaneous Literacy begins in Kindergarten or 1st grade Model Lessons taught in English and Spanish

8 Curriculum District adopted Reading and Math program used in both English and Spanish Thematic Instruction (covers Science and Social Studies) Six trait writing and Writer s Workshop Scope and Sequence developed Long Range team planning Written by teachers and updated annually Content Standard Based Differentiated Instruction

9 Omaha Public Schools Gomez Heritage Elementary D U A L L A N G U A G D O S I D I O M A S E

10 Demographics Student enrollment Pre-K K through 4 th grade Dual Language Program K 4 th Free/Reduced lunch 84% ESL Students ESL Students - 60 % Dual Language Dual Language - 38% Highest number of bilingual staff -Four teachers from Spain Gomez Heritage Elementary

11 Teacher from Spain: Maria Perez 3 rd grade Spanish side; 3 rd year with OPS

12 What has impressed you about your experience in OPS? A lot of opportunities to learn new things A lot of paper work Snow days (they are great) The hours working...you will be working a lot!!!!...much more than a teacher in Spain (it is worth it, though)

13 What advice would you give to other teachers from Spain who may come to OPS? Take it easy at the beginning Do not get stressed out with work...what you do is...great!!! What you have not done...you will do some other day.

14 Crestridge Magnet 361 students 72 students in the Dual Language Program Grades K 1 A grade will be added each year until the program is a K-6 program Magnet School for Global Studies

15 Castelar Academy 488 Students 163 Dual Language Students Grades K-6

16 Teacher from Spain: Ana Hernando Invest in the future Teach a child

17 What has impressed you about your experience in the OPS? Working in OPS is a very good experience because you have a lot of resource to use and training where you can learn different ways to teach and where you can get a lot of ideas for your classroom management. I love the Resource Room at the District Office. I would like to have more time to go there.

18 What advice would you give to other teachers from Spain who may come to OPS? The first months are hard here because we have a lot of directions to follow and we are not used to that. In the end, I think that it is the best way to work. My advice is that it would be better if the teachers forget about the way they teach in Spain and start as if it were the first time they were going to teach.

19 Spring Lake Magnet

20 Spring Lake Magnet Spanish, Math and Technology Magnet Pre-K through 4th Grade 753 students 189 students in the K-4 th grade Dual Language Program

21 Beveridge Magnet 718 students Began DL program in students in program in Spanish Language Arts and Spanish for Native Speakers- DL Music DL Art - DL Science 7

22 R.M. Marrs Magnet Center 5619 South 19 th Street Omaha, NE Pamela Cohn, Principal

23 R.M. Marrs Magnet Center 941 students Grades 5 through 8 Magnet school specializing in

24 Marrs Dual Language Program 185 students in the Dual Language Program. The following courses are currently offered in Spanish: Reading & Language Arts Science, Grades 5, 7, and 8 Social Studies, Grades 6 and 8 Mathematics, Grade 5 Technology and Living (elective), Grades 5-8 Theatre (elective), Grade 8 The magnet themes are integrated into all Dual Language and non-dual Language courses.

25 Spanish Theatre Productions

26 Teacher from Spain: Angel Heras I started working in OPS in August, All new teachers had to do this course and at first it was very difficult for me. I realized coming to a foreign country was not easy. I had to learn a new way of teaching while I had to learn a new way of living. OPS offers you the possibility to develop your professional skills. They offer you all the resources you need and more. They have offered me the possibility to access different courses and get paid for it. This is incredible for me. My personal advice : It is not easy. If you can do it.just do it.

27 Teacher from Spain: Berta Gijon What has impressed you about your experience in the OPS? The way children work in centers or stations. It is a good technique for making students work and they love it.

28 What advice would you give to other teachers from Spain who may come to OPS? They should be open- minded because obviously everything is different and they should be ready to work hard. It is a good experience although hard. I recommend this experience to every teacher who would like to come and live here and take advantage of this awesome opportunity.

29 Partnership between South and Marrs

30 Dual Language Program Omaha South High Magnet Building skills in two languages through quality content instruction

31 Dual Language Course Offerings Omaha South High Magnet Math H Algebra, H Geometry, H Algebra II Social Studies H U.S. History, H Geography, H Economics, H World History H American Govt. Mexican-American History Science H Biology, H Chemistry, H Physics Information Technology Freshmen Academic, Career and Technical Skills (FACTS)

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34 Now a look at the data Students participate in all of the district assessment Most of these are in English Students participate in speaking, reading and writing assessments in Spanish Achievement of DL students is compared with non-dl students in their school on Criterion-Referenced assessments (CRTs)

35 First Grade Data Dual Language Others 100.0% 97.9% 92.2% 96.1% 97.4% 94.8% 94.2% Percent of Students AYP Proficient 90.0% 80.0% 70.0% 60.0% 50.0% 40.0% 30.0% 85.1% 72.0% 82.0% 83.3% 78.3% 78.0% 20.0% 10.0% 0.0% Gr 1 Read Gr 1 Read Gr 1 Read Gr 1 Math Gr 1 Math Gr 1 Math

36 Second Grade Data Dual Language Others 100.0% 100.0% 97.0% 100.0% 97.9% 90.0% 80.0% 88.5% 83.2% 81.7% 88.4% 89.7% Percent of Students AYP Proficient 70.0% 60.0% 50.0% 40.0% 30.0% 62.2% 57.5% 61.5% 20.0% 10.0% 0.0% Gr 2 Read Gr 2 Read Gr 2 Read Gr 2 Math Gr 2 Math Gr 2 Math

37 Third Grade Data Dual Language Others 100.0% 90.0% 85.7% 97.0% 88.2% 92.5% 84.7% 89.9% 80.0% 78.8% 78.5% 70.0% 71.2% 65.6% Percent of Students AYP Proficient 60.0% 50.0% 40.0% 30.0% 50.7% 50.5% 20.0% 10.0% 0.0% Gr 3 Read Gr 3 Read Gr 3 Read Gr 3 Math Gr 3 Math Gr 3 Math

38 Fourth Grade Data Dual Language Others 100.0% 90.0% 87.2% 87.1% 97.4% 97.2% 91.5% 90.6% 90.0% Percent of Students AYP Proficient 80.0% 70.0% 60.0% 50.0% 40.0% 30.0% 46.5% 68.1% 73.6% 73.3% 67.4% 20.0% 10.0% 0.0% Gr 4 Read Gr 4 Read Gr 4 Read Gr 4 Math Gr 4 Math Gr 4 Math

39 An invitation to visit us!

40 Omaha Public Schools Thank you for your attention! Janelle Mullen Susan Mayberger