for over twenty six years seven years as the world language supervisor so thank you for coming out today it's a pleasure having here today thank you thank you i know we have a great program in our in our schools i know it's a model program about a world language program known throughout the state we have a lot of people that come in and view the program and i was hoping that you could talk a bit about today and tell us all the exciting things are going on in world languages e s l and bilingual ok why don't i start talking about e s l and the bilingual program so we have quite an active bilingual program people ask me how many students do we have and i say well this week we have one hundred forty two because i know that next week the number will be different and we have at least one e s l and bilingual teacher or bilingual teacher at every school in the district so students come to us sometimes with absolutely no english and it's amazing how by the end of a year or in the middle of the year the english just starts starts appearing and i want to show i have us look at a clip young students about various interocular up words various questioning words and then puts up some sentenced rips and they work on making questions and in the end play with a beach ball that has different know they're working hard but the teachers are so creative in how they get their little students to speak english and at the middle school then we have various programs  selling at the high school students are both in their classes and then some are in sheltered instruction classes transitional clashes in the high school for different subject matters so  but in world languages you asked about that we we had had a program course that started in kindergarten and last year the district need to to to significantly reduce our elementary program so we now begin in second grade and we are fortunate even with this reduced program we're still fortunate in the program that  we do have especially compared to other many others in the area and around the country so it's just amazing it was so because when i walked through the elementary schools and i just popped my head and know they're with the teachers from day one they are speaking in spanish in the classroom and this year three of the four teachers have their own classrooms and so you walk into a very spanish environment and then the bulletin boards out in the hall are covered with the kids work and our curriculum is a little unusual believe we make as many connections as we can to the general education curriculum so especially the second craved we have an emphasis on literacy and numeracy we're going to watch a clip of caroline letterman who is the spanish  teacher at little brook school and this is so second grade class and you'll see the students for instance today it's the letter s and so that if the kids are brainstorming all the spanish words they know with the letter s and then they're going to do some math problems and i believe today it's just a number of problems but what i particularly love is going in when they're talking about ocean animals for instance and i the kids have their little white boards out and i hear it and this is in spanish i hear if there if there are four whales and each whale has two fins how what's what's the total number of fins that there is and this is all in spanish and the kids are sitting there with their white boards figuring it out and then they can tell the class the whole math we're going to have a great time and our teachers are all very dynamic actually all the way through we have strongly dynamic teachers but do you see that caroline is fills the class with what we call collateral language she's always speaking in spanish and of course the kids don't understand everything but a little ones especially can live with this rather vagueness and you know what what they're hearing is blah blah blah blah for instance in third grade in science the kid studied the solar system and we had solar system in our curriculum but it was just straight planets and stars and things like that and i said well  for us to have any thing in our curriculum i want there to be a tie in with the spanish speaking world and so we manage that by adding an authentic legend so a creation legend of  the the sun in the moon and that and you know that kids pretend they're a planet and they can describe the various planets another favorite unit of mine is the dinosaur unit in fourth grade because the kids are studying fossils and it turns out that argentina is one of the hotbed that's too strong a word but it's where a lot of dinosaur fossils have been discovered recently so the kids learn about some of those dinosaurs they create their own they learn to measure using the metric system because they're measuring long dinosaurs and then person analyzing measurements like that and  or have recently been active in the profession so at the elementary level mark eastburn was one of the national panel to create tasks for an online assessment that is still in the development stages but he would have to go to atlanta or to washington to to meet with a group of teachers and administrators from around the country to do to set up these tasks people she's given talks and people call her or email her to learn more about the units closed because sanya has also talked about various meetings his french film course and these two classes are just some of my favorites at the high school the kids are at such an advanced level you're sitting there listening to these discussions and just going oh you know listen to the language listen to their thoughts and it's it's incredible she'll mccrae has spoken actually in europe and the us about various aspects of the french program and  it's it's very exciting sue fenlon who is a relatively new member of our department in mandarin is rapidly becoming known as a very good presenter in chinese in fact she positive things are allowed the recognition and words that have come our way you know since you know you've been a supervisor and i think that's something that we don't have to be modest and i think that's something we do want to talk about and hopefully you could just you know highlight a couple of things that are out there well of course but the biggest ones being national supervisor of the year so for world languages when i was that's just even my husband was excited about it and he is a very low key person so that was me and you got to we we have been this model program ever since new jersey started having model programs in world languages and for a number of years it was our elementary and middle school that were the model programs and then it was a very proud day when the state asked the high school to join so what does that mean i say all these all these wonderful things they mean a lot of work for me but it's wonderful type of work because we it's even though it's a model program for the state of new jersey we have visitors from around the country who come and then at the high school this past year we were named to confucius classroom and that's part of a national network of again model programs and in the chinese language  and also in japanese japan foundation this year has recognized our program in fact in a very substantial way they are funding a good part of our teacher's salary but  you appreciate that recognition very much and then with the and with some others come materials for our program and there were right when we needed somebody or a couple of somebody for latin a few years ago but for instance in japanese there's a japanese student in grad school we've actually known him since he was five years old when he and his parents came to princeton on sabbatical and so u k reappeared to and with his wife so his wife and another grad students wife now come into the japanese class several days a week to work with the the upper level kids and and then i'm also the content specialist for the teacher prep program  princeton university and so when i see a real winner i channeled that person into our program to come as an observer or a helper or student teacher of some sort so yes we  offer six languages in the high school and two are non western languages that's very unusual i know of no other public school that does that and i'm just proud that we can do it i if i had my goal everyone would be studying one western language and one of our non western languages just for that rich experience but we're sort of  over the middle school for the last a little bit and we can get back and then i'll and then i'll go back up to the high school but art our middle school we have had a daily world language program in french and spanish at the middle school for at least the last forty years that's incredible and you just incredible i did i did in the last century so and we're just we're very proud of that program  e number of years ago the teachers were brought into the houses before world languages sort of on the outside and now there's a world language teacher in each house and  would be wonderful if there were more collaboration going on this year rick miller and i have a grant from the colombo concordia foundation and we're so social studies and eighth grade world language eighth grade social studies eighth grade world language we're working sort of together and there's a lot of technology involved in this we just had a nother meeting yesterday and we're about ready to roll to roll this out but we've we've made a concerted effort to keep our french program strong around the country french has been losing ground rapidly but here in princeton well we have a trip to the end of eighth grade and i purposefully do not have a trip for the spanish speaking students and we have a very strong we have strong faculty in both languages and we've just managed to keep our french numbers up very nicely so we like that all that is good but it's very and then and then we go to the high school where we do have these six languages so we have latin tahlia and french these two fabulous film courses that i had had mentioned before but i like to say our japanese teacher is is from japan as a japanese and our chinese teacher is chinese our talian teacher in our latin teacher is not a roman kathy lewis this marvelous teacher there they're all it's just been it's been a real pleasure strokes to and by spanish department i have minute ok we're back again we talk with priscilla russell a rabbi with a supervisor in the district and purcell i know that technology plays a big a big impact these days in the classroom love instructional technology doing on quite heavy users of technology one one reason we're able to do this is that we get tremendous support from the technology office in the district when some of my teachers want to learn something new i ask and liz or paul are always very happy to come and do some training with them and and sometimes little gifts school so that students do their research on that from the japan foundation where you were gifted so electronic dictionaries and will watch a little clip on that so that students can go in and see if they hear it going on the cutting the different different scripts so and even down at the elementary level the teachers in the students are using technology just this week caroline letterman's fifth grade class at little brook skype with her daughter who lives in columbia and it's it's not the first skype by any and so the fifth graders were speaking with a girl about their an age in colombia and asking questions of each other in spanish about school life and that was very exciting and to see what else do we do a lot lot of work with computers would be lost without our laptops for doing research in chinese class for the students to practice we infuse technology in everything because this helps us even more to connect to the rest of the world and that's what we're about of course and world language that the world the world is flat know and so you know when in the olden days when a teacher needed to be strong and content and in pedagogically and now there's this technology aspect that's thrown and then and so know many of us were not digital natives but but we certainly are learning and we know that if we use weapon ours in our department for instance for professional training all sit around and watch a weapon or from