Heritage Language Academy: impacting families and children in culturally relevant ways Jordi and Josie Roman Asheboro City Schools

HLA.

History Joint collaboration Between UNCG’s TESOL for ALL program and ACS 3 rd Donna Lee Loflin Elementary 1 st Guy B. Teachey Eight Saturdays from 9.30 to 11.30am “Parents as Teachers” component added this year

Mission of the Heritage Language Academy Provide students with tools to increase literacy in the native language ( Spanish) and in English

Missions of the Heritage Language Academy To provide HLA parents with the skills/ tools to understand their children’s curriculum and to become partners in learning 21 st century skills.

3 rd G English/ Spanish Parents as Teachers Computer ClassK-3 Enrichment HLA

3 rd G English/ Spanish HLA

8 HL learners (Valdés 2000, Carreira & Kagan 2007) Have good oral comprehension of the language May be able to speak the language to different degrees Have good pronunciation Have lexical gaps Make grammatical errors Poor to minimal reading and writing skills Self-identify with their ethnic community Have a strong interest in learning more about their language

In Action

The Teacher Factor The Text Factor Transferability Factor

Parent as Teachers HLA

Practice scaffoldmonitor Replicate Classroom Activitiessupport Awareness USLatin America

Computer Class HLA

CurriculumWeb SearchBasic skills

K-3 Enrichment HLA

Parent Time structured Flexible

3 rd G English/ Spanish Parent as Teachers Computer ClassK-3 Enrichment HLA

What do they think?

Special Thanks to : Dr. Levin Dr. Jane Dr. Pratter Dr. Frost Dr. Harper Mrs. Vanderburgh Mrs. Call Teachers, Parents and Students

Thank you