Our teachers work side-by-side with campus-level and district-level administration to ensure they are providing all the necessary building blocks to help our students reach their full potential. Our classroom teachers hold a strong belief that all students are capable of high-level achievement, both academically and societally. Throughout my experiences within larger ISDs, one aspect that sets Burnham Wood aside from the rest is the sense of community and collaboration.
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Setting our students up for success begins with understanding the unique needs of our students and how to best meet those needs at both an individual and group-level. While serving as AP, I have been fortunate enough to work alongside some of the most dedicated educators around and have learned how to best serve the students and parents of our district. During the previous two years, I have served as the Assistant Principal (AP) at Da Vinci School for Science and the Arts, Howard Burnham Elementary School, and The Linguistic Academy of El Paso.
I began working with Burnham Wood Charter School District in the 2020-21 academic year. It is my great honor and privilege to serve as The Linguistic Academy of El Paso’s principal for the 2022-23 academic year. is at last moving to catch up - and not a moment too soon.Greetings from the Principal: Claudia Castañón In a polyglot world, a largely monoglot nation like the U.S. But scientists - particularly neurologists, psychologists and educational specialists - are watching closely. The kids in bilingual classes in Utah and elsewhere aren’t thinking much about the nature of their brains when they go to school each morning they’re only aware of the rich and lyrical experience of living and learning bilingually. To date, representatives from 22 other states have gone to Utah to learn more about the program.
All of this is prompting public schools to implement language-immersion programs for kids as young as kindergarteners, as I report in the new issue of TIME nowhere is that more evident than in Utah, where 20% of all public schools offer K-12 dual-language instruction, with students taking half their classes every day in English and half in either Spanish, French, Mandarin or Portuguese. New studies are showing that a multilingual brain is nimbler, quicker, better able to deal with ambiguities, resolve conflicts and even resist Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia longer. That, it turns out, is very good for the brain. But well into your grammar-school years, your ability to learn a second - or third or fourth - language is still remarkable. That talent fades fast - as early as nine months after birth, some of our language synapses start getting pruned away. There are 6,800 languages in the world, and since you can’t know where you’ll be born, you have to pop from the womb to be able to speak any one of them. Indeed, the youngest person in any room is almost always the best linguist there too. Never mind how well spoken you might be now, you will never again be as adept with languages as the day you were born. Michael Friberg for TIME A group of Utah first-graders listen and read along in Mandarin How the Brain Benefits From Being Bilingual Since language learning requires a great deal of practice and application, starting early is a great advantage. In addition to that, when an individual begins to learn a language at a younger age, greater proficiency is acquired. However, the fact that children can learn not only analytically but also through gestures and visual cues, makes the learning process is easier. It is not possible to say what age is most suitable to learn a new language as it differs from one individual to another. Although it is possible to learn languages even after that, the approach is quite different. This is what Janna Degener from the Goethe Institute stated Children often respond to new languages with curiosity and impartiality.Īccording to research conducted by scientists, the opportunity for maximum learning is before the age of 10. The ability to grasp new languages is also better when you start learning a new language sooner. The biggest advantage of introducing young children to new languages is the ability to create positive impressions about cultures across the globe. As they grow and reach the age of 10 and above, these impressions become more permanent. By Jennifer Baxter on November 1, 2013 in Language NewsĬhildren, even when they are as young as 3 to 4 years of age, are able to create impressions about cultures and practices of other people.