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8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1674-0
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<v Grisel McDuffie>I tried.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1676-0
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<v Grisel McDuffie>It heard oh.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1745-0
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<v Virin Vedder>I like being in DLI.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1793-0
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<v Virin Vedder>Perseverance is key to a successful dual
language immersion experience.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1793-1
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<v Virin Vedder>We're asking parents to commit 12 years
to the program so that their child can</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1793-2
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<v Virin Vedder>truly be bilingual, bicultural,
and biliterate at the end of the program.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1836-0
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<v Virin Vedder>After doing this program,
he's taken a large interest in languages</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1836-1
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<v Virin Vedder>and he wants to learn more languages and
he feels comfortable having a</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1836-2
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<v Virin Vedder>conversation in French.
We've seen that he is more open minded</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1836-3
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<v Virin Vedder>because of.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1891-0
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<v Virin Vedder>Different languages and different
cultures.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1891-1
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<v Virin Vedder>He knows that there's more out there for
him to learn.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1891-2
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<v Virin Vedder>So how proficient will these students be
in their second language?</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1891-3
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<v Virin Vedder>We'd like to see many of these students
take the AP test by 10th grade,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1891-4
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<v Virin Vedder>and in fact,
we'd love to see many of them also</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1891-5
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<v Virin Vedder>complete a college minor by the time they
finish high school.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1891-6
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<v Virin Vedder>Dual language immersion has changed the
culture of my school.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1891-7
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<v Virin Vedder>It's changed my community.
People are really.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1898-0
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<v Virin Vedder>Excited about the program.
For more information,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1898-1
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<v Virin Vedder>parents should contact the local DLI
school.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1967-0
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<v Virin Vedder>So thank you once again for joining us,
folks who just have been coming in from</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1967-1
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<v Virin Vedder>the waiting room.
We're happy to spend some time with you</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1967-2
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<v Virin Vedder>this evening and appreciate your joining
us for learning a little bit more about</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1967-3
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<v Virin Vedder>the Gwinnett County Public Schools Dual
Language Immersion program.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1967-4
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<v Virin Vedder>Just a couple of housekeeping things.
Miss Galindo,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/1967-5
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<v Virin Vedder>the coordinator and dual language
immersion.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2019-0
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<v Virin Vedder>And myself are facilitating tonight and
hopefully we'll answer a lot of questions</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2019-1
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<v Virin Vedder>along the way.
But as you're thinking of things,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2019-2
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<v Virin Vedder>feel free to start typing them in the
chat.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2019-3
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<v Virin Vedder>Maybe don't hit enter until we get to the
Q&amp;</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2019-4
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<v Virin Vedder>A time at the end of this presentation.
And then if it's something we haven't</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2019-5
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<v Virin Vedder>answered,
of course you don't have to do that,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2019-6
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<v Virin Vedder>but we will provide time at the end for
some question.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2045-0
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<v Virin Vedder>And answer time.
And hopefully we'll answer a lot of</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2045-1
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<v Virin Vedder>things along the way. Excuse me.
So let's kind of jump in and tackle what</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2045-2
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<v Virin Vedder>dual language immersion in Gwinnett
County Public Schools looks like.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2046-0
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<v Virin Vedder>Oh.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2107-0
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<v Virin Vedder>So at the end of this journey,
ultimately this is what we are hoping</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2107-1
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<v Virin Vedder>will be what you see as the the gift that
you might be able to give your child.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2107-2
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<v Virin Vedder>If you and your child can make a K12
commitment to the program,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2107-3
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<v Virin Vedder>a student will get a lot closer to this
destination right here on the screen of</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2107-4
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<v Virin Vedder>being.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2157-0
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<v Virin Vedder>Bilingual, biliterate and multicultural.
Gwinnett County Public Schools has been</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2157-1
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<v Virin Vedder>planning for dual language immersion for
over a decade,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2157-2
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<v Virin Vedder>and programs in other States and school
systems were visited and consulted when</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2157-3
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<v Virin Vedder>creating ours.
GCPS leaders designed a model we feel is</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2157-4
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<v Virin Vedder>best suited for our community.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2197-0
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<v Virin Vedder>In order to best support our program and
all the stakeholders involved,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2197-1
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<v Virin Vedder>we have launched different cohorts as
depicted on this slide.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2197-2
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<v Virin Vedder>Here you'll see in bold the DLI
elementary schools as well as the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2197-3
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<v Virin Vedder>respective middle and high schools where
the program continues.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2263-0
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<v Virin Vedder>In parentheses,
following the name of each school,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2263-1
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<v Virin Vedder>we note the year that the first cohort of
students entered that school.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2263-2
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<v Virin Vedder>Each year we advance by one grade level
and also add a new kindergarten cohort.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2263-3
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<v Virin Vedder>So for this current school year,
we have DLI at 11 elementary schools and</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2263-4
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<v Virin Vedder>we offer 3 languages.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2300-0
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<v Virin Vedder>In this graph, the Peach color,
our salmon colored are our Spanish</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2300-1
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<v Virin Vedder>immersion programs.
The green is depicted with the Peach</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2300-2
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<v Virin Vedder>Ridge cluster where we offer Korean and
the blue there you see in the Grayson</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2300-3
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<v Virin Vedder>cluster where we have our French program.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2343-0
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<v Virin Vedder>So dual language immersion has several
goals, as listed in this slide.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2343-1
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<v Virin Vedder>We believe that all of these objectives
have the potential to add value to a</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2343-2
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<v Virin Vedder>student and the opportunities that await
him or her once they leave us in GCPS.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2389-0
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<v Virin Vedder>So all of these skills that you see on
the slide are what comes about through</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2389-1
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<v Virin Vedder>exposure and experience and time in a
dual language immersion program.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2389-2
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<v Virin Vedder>And all of these, we believe,
are kind of soft skills that a student</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2389-3
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<v Virin Vedder>can take with them wherever they go once
they leave us in GCPS.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2446-0
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<v Virin Vedder>This is the fundamental bottom line
backed up by lots of research.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2446-1
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<v Virin Vedder>We're going to drop some things in the
chat where you can go and dig deeper into</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2446-2
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<v Virin Vedder>some resources and research if you're
interested in learning more.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2446-3
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<v Virin Vedder>But the bottom line is that immersion
students perform just as well as their</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2446-4
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<v Virin Vedder>peers who are learning in just one
language,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2446-5
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<v Virin Vedder>even if they're learning content in a
brand new language.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2451-0
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<v Virin Vedder>Which and they're getting kind of tested
in English.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2507-0
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<v Virin Vedder>For some context, again,
if you're going to do some research,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2507-1
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<v Virin Vedder>we have adopted DLI dual language
immersion as the name used for this</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2507-2
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<v Virin Vedder>educational option that's available to
families.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2507-3
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<v Virin Vedder>But this slide shows additional terms
that often reference a similar method of</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2507-4
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<v Virin Vedder>providing students with instruction in
language and also content.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2526-0
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<v Virin Vedder>The language goals are meaningful
bilingualism and biliteracy in English</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2526-1
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<v Virin Vedder>and a partner language,
which we sometimes also call target</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2526-2
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<v Virin Vedder>language.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2568-0
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<v Virin Vedder>So let's talk about some terms that
matter because this plays into our</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2568-1
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<v Virin Vedder>programming.
We in GCPS have both one way and two way</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2568-2
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<v Virin Vedder>immersion programs.
The program objectives,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2568-3
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<v Virin Vedder>as you just saw on the previous slide,
are the same for both.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2625-0
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<v Virin Vedder>However,
the name used to describe them is</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2625-1
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<v Virin Vedder>determined by what the native language is
for the enrolled students.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2625-2
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<v Virin Vedder>A dual language program in which both
native English speakers and native</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2625-3
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<v Virin Vedder>speakers of the partner language are
enrolled,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2625-4
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<v Virin Vedder>with neither group making up more than
basically 2/3 of the student population,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2625-5
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<v Virin Vedder>is called a two-way program.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2672-0
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<v Virin Vedder>In this case,
students can help support their teachers</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2672-1
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<v Virin Vedder>and each other as they grow their
language skills and proficiency in the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2672-2
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<v Virin Vedder>new language.
A one way immersion program describes a</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2672-3
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<v Virin Vedder>setting in which students are primarily
native English speakers and they're</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2672-4
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<v Virin Vedder>learning the partner language,
let's say French for example,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2672-5
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<v Virin Vedder>and with the help and support of their
teachers,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2672-6
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<v Virin Vedder>they build skills and proficiency in.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2675-0
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<v Virin Vedder>That partner language.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2728-0
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<v Virin Vedder>In our elementary school model,
students study language arts and other</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2728-1
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<v Virin Vedder>academic content in both languages over
the course of the entire program.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2728-2
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<v Virin Vedder>In the GCPS elementary school model,
the partner language is used for 50% of a</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2728-3
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<v Virin Vedder>day's instructional time at.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2787-0
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<v Virin Vedder>All grades,
kindergarten through 5th grade and in</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2787-1
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<v Virin Vedder>GCPS, our academic knowledge and skills,
what we call the AKS,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2787-2
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<v Virin Vedder>that's the curriculum that we use in DLI.
So an important point here we're making</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2787-3
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<v Virin Vedder>is that the students in DLI are learning
the same things standards wise as</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2787-4
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<v Virin Vedder>students who are not participating.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>In dual language immersion,
but how they're learning it is obviously</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>what is different.
So our model is known as this 5050 model,</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>where 50% of the day is taught in English
and 50% of the day is taught in that</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>partner language.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Notice this program is not new.
It started actually out in California in</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2877-1
00:08:51.288 --> 00:08:53.880
<v Virin Vedder>the 1970s.
Now with over 2000 programs in our</v>

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00:08:53.880 --> 00:08:56.530
<v Virin Vedder>country,
it kind of shows the the value of the</v>

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00:08:56.530 --> 00:09:01.264
<v Virin Vedder>program and and the educational benefits
that come from it. And you see in Georgia,</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>we have expanded our programming as well.
Gwinnett County Public Schools is the</v>

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00:09:05.773 --> 00:09:07.013
<v Virin Vedder>largest dual language.</v>

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00:09:07.093 --> 00:09:08.973
<v Virin Vedder>Immersion provider in our state.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>So let's look at the benefits of being in
this program because that's I'm thinking</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2950-1
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<v Virin Vedder>why you're here.
We can expect cognitive benefits.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2950-2
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<v Virin Vedder>The brain at the elementary age
particularly is this muscle that is</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2950-3
00:09:22.181 --> 00:09:25.388
<v Virin Vedder>constantly developing.
And if this muscle is getting the</v>

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00:09:25.388 --> 00:09:29.609
<v Virin Vedder>opportunity to process information coming
at it in multiple ways each day,</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>it strengthens.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3006-0
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<v Virin Vedder>The achievement benefits we mentioned
come about through this program and that</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/2959-0
00:09:32.053 --> 00:09:35.973
<v Morales-Gomez, Noemi>Hey, can you grab Sumo if we accept?</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3006-1
00:09:35.071 --> 00:09:38.934
<v Virin Vedder>our students achieve just as well as
their peers who are learning in a</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3006-2
00:09:38.934 --> 00:09:42.089
<v Virin Vedder>monolingual context.
The language benefits that come from</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3006-3
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<v Virin Vedder>learning a new language help you grow
stronger in your first language.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3006-4
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<v Virin Vedder>That can pay off into economic benefits
that you can use obviously later in life.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>And then the social benefits that come
when you can broaden your sphere with</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>whom you can communicate are just
additional benefits that come through</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>dual language immersion.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>So what we'd like to do is take a pause
for a moment and in the chat,</v>

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00:10:04.556 --> 00:10:09.098
<v Virin Vedder>Miss Galindo is going to drop this form
or if you're looking at this from a</v>

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00:10:09.098 --> 00:10:11.787
<v Virin Vedder>computer and you can scan the QR code
there,</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>we are requesting that you enter your
attendance so that if schools want to</v>

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00:10:16.328 --> 00:10:19.973
<v Virin Vedder>look at who has attended and maybe coming
to them as future.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3131-0
00:10:20.013 --> 00:10:22.584
<v Virin Vedder>DLI parents,
they will already have knowledge of your</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3131-1
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<v Virin Vedder>having participated in this meeting.
This meeting is being held so that we can</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3131-2
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<v Virin Vedder>support all those eleven schools that are
hosting dual language immersion and some</v>

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00:10:30.296 --> 00:10:33.819
<v Virin Vedder>schools like to have a record of
attendance for for their their files and</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>we'll put this up again so if you don't
get it just now.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>No worries.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3190-0
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<v Virin Vedder>So let's talk about what the elementary
school day looks like in dual language</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>immersion.
So the next several slides are going to</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3190-2
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<v Virin Vedder>help explain how this program model is
delivered.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>So take a look at this graphic and notice
that we've got two teachers names listed,</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Mrs. Rodriguez,
who we're going to say is a Spanish</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>teacher or a French teacher or Korean
teacher.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>And then her partner teacher is Mrs.
Adams, who is that English side teacher.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3251-1
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<v Virin Vedder>Remember, it's a two teacher model.
So our GCPS model, as I mentioned,</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>is 5050 in the elementary school grades
and also known as a side by side model.</v>

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00:11:13.918 --> 00:11:18.440
<v Virin Vedder>This provides a way of distributing
languages for instruction in which</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>students.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Students are taught in one room by an
English teacher and in another room by</v>

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00:11:23.655 --> 00:11:27.898
<v Virin Vedder>the partner language teacher.
Students move between the two classrooms</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>for instruction each day,
spending approximately 50% of the</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>instructional day in each room and
language.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Teachers teach exclusively in one
language to two groups of students in</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>each day,
and then we use something called a roller</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>coaster schedule and alternate on a
weekly basis,</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>whether English or the partner language
is the language of instruction for the</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>morning or afternoon.
We'll explain that a little bit more in a</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>moment.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>So to illustrate this on this slide,
imagine that it's the first week of</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>school, your child,
and likely 24 to 25 additional classmates</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>would begin their day with Mrs. Adams.
Let's use as this example.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Mrs.
Adams instructs exclusively in the part</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>in English,
and she's primarily teaching social</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>studies, English and language arts.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>And all morning your child is going to be
learning those content areas with Mrs.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Adams and those other students.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Meanwhile,
another group of students of about 25</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>students are with Mrs.
Rodriguez when they entered the school</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>this morning.
They are in a in immersion language</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>environment, and in this instance,
if let's say Spanish is the language Mrs.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Rodriguez is teaching.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>She is teaching math and Spanish,
she's teaching science and Spanish,</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>and she's teaching Spanish literacy.
And so all morning these students are in</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>those separate classrooms in those
separate languages.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Notice in this graphic,
lunch falls kind of perfectly there in</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>the middle.
If lunch were perfectly in the middle of</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>the student's schedule every day,
then those students who started with Mrs.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Adams in English would move over in the
afternoon to Mrs.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Rodriguez and get their instruction in
Spanish.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>The students who started with Mrs.
Rodriguez would move over to Mrs.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Adams and get their afternoon in English.
So that's that two teacher 5050 model.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Now,
if your child started in English this</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>week in the morning and finished in
Spanish,</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>the roller coaster means that next week
your child would start in Spanish and</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>finish in English.
So we do that to help ensure that</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>scheduling is maximized and also if your
child is not maybe a morning.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Person and therefore getting a new
content and in a new language.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>We don't want that always to be the case.
So that roller coaster model kind of</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>helps address that.
Here's another visual that kind of can</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>help represent what we just mentioned.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>In the distribution of content and
language in our two teachers side by side</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>model,
this orange color represents the content</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>that's being delivered in the immersion
language and the green represents content</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>being done in English.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>What is also depicted here is content
area reinforcement that the English</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>teacher helps support during their
portion of the day.</v>

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00:14:20.101 --> 00:14:24.813
<v Virin Vedder>In order to ensure that students have
knowledge of academic language and</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>concepts in both the target and English
languages,</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>the DLI team of teachers has to
continuously and.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Intentionally plan and collaborate.
DLI teachers create what we call mirror</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>classrooms by having similar routines and
procedures for doing things like where to</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>turn in assignments,
how to find language supports in the</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>classroom,
where to line up for lunch or recess.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>Students have two uniquely different
teachers each day,</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>yet one unifying set of operating
processes.</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>So we call it mirror classrooms.
We also call this two teachers,</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>one voice in that for you as a parent and
your child,</v>

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<v Virin Vedder>you're not having to learn completely
different systems for how to do things.</v>

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00:15:08.733 --> 00:15:12.179
<v Virin Vedder>The set routines and procedures are
mirrors.</v>

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00:15:12.179 --> 00:15:17.998
<v Virin Vedder>All DLI students additionally participate
in what we call specials classes.</v>

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00:15:17.998 --> 00:15:22.746
<v Virin Vedder>That would be like art, music,
physical education and recess,</v>

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00:15:22.746 --> 00:15:27.493
<v Virin Vedder>just like the general education non,
excuse me, DLI students.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3891-0
00:15:27.933 --> 00:15:33.042
<v Virin Vedder>So we're honing in here and highlighting
a portion of that prior slide,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3891-1
00:15:33.042 --> 00:15:38.293
<v Virin Vedder>and this is the part where DLI is
different from a traditional classroom.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3956-0
00:15:39.773 --> 00:15:43.851
<v Virin Vedder>This partner language literacy
instruction is what happens daily in a</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3956-1
00:15:43.851 --> 00:15:47.580
<v Virin Vedder>DLI classroom that is not happening in a
monolingual classroom,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3956-2
00:15:47.580 --> 00:15:51.425
<v Virin Vedder>and this visual shows you how we address
this critical component.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3956-3
00:15:51.425 --> 00:15:55.096
<v Virin Vedder>Read alouds allow teachers to work on
listening comprehension,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3956-4
00:15:55.096 --> 00:15:58.533
<v Virin Vedder>building content area knowledge,
oral language production.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3969-0
00:15:59.053 --> 00:16:04.057
<v Virin Vedder>And using opportunities for students to
turn and talk with a partner so that they</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/3969-1
00:16:04.057 --> 00:16:06.253
<v Virin Vedder>can get practice with this language.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4029-0
00:16:07.773 --> 00:16:11.847
<v Virin Vedder>In our shared reading portion of the the
literacy part of the day,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4029-1
00:16:11.847 --> 00:16:16.832
<v Virin Vedder>our teachers are kind of taking what the
average reading abilities of the student</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4029-2
00:16:16.832 --> 00:16:21.392
<v Virin Vedder>are and kind of hitting just above that
so that they can teach strategies,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4029-3
00:16:21.392 --> 00:16:25.040
<v Virin Vedder>reading strategies,
how to decode in a new language and how</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4029-4
00:16:25.040 --> 00:16:27.533
<v Virin Vedder>to comprehend maybe what they're reading.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4049-0
00:16:27.773 --> 00:16:33.227
<v Virin Vedder>That final component of word work is
explicit instruction on spelling and</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4049-1
00:16:33.227 --> 00:16:38.533
<v Virin Vedder>grammar, content, vocabulary,
sight words in that new partner language.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4097-0
00:16:40.653 --> 00:16:45.426
<v Virin Vedder>This is yet another visual representation
of the side-by-side 5052 teacher model.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4097-1
00:16:45.426 --> 00:16:49.851
<v Virin Vedder>This also helps highlight how the
intentional collaboration and planning of</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4097-2
00:16:49.851 --> 00:16:53.984
<v Virin Vedder>the DLI teaching team results in
opportunities to help bridge learning</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4097-3
00:16:53.984 --> 00:16:54.973
<v Virin Vedder>across languages.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4152-0
00:16:58.213 --> 00:17:03.855
<v Virin Vedder>So we use language proficiency benchmarks
from the American Council on the Teaching</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4152-1
00:17:03.855 --> 00:17:09.362
<v Virin Vedder>of Foreign Languages to identify what a
student is able to do with their language</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4152-2
00:17:09.362 --> 00:17:13.124
<v Virin Vedder>skills. Novice,
intermediate and advanced are the terms</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4152-3
00:17:13.124 --> 00:17:16.213
<v Virin Vedder>that we use to describe language
proficiency.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4197-0
00:17:16.293 --> 00:17:21.476
<v Virin Vedder>So in the first several months of the
program, students are in a silent period.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4197-1
00:17:21.476 --> 00:17:26.399
<v Virin Vedder>The silent period is very similar to
where an 18 month old baby might be in</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4197-2
00:17:26.399 --> 00:17:30.416
<v Virin Vedder>terms of their language.
They understand a lot of what you're</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4197-3
00:17:30.416 --> 00:17:32.813
<v Virin Vedder>saying, but they know very few words.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4256-0
00:17:33.213 --> 00:17:37.387
<v Virin Vedder>When a child finally says his or her
first words, teachers get so excited,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4256-1
00:17:37.387 --> 00:17:40.504
<v Virin Vedder>just like we did as parents when our
children did that.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4256-2
00:17:40.504 --> 00:17:45.068
<v Virin Vedder>And so we try to move our students from
one or two words to complete sentences as</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4256-3
00:17:45.068 --> 00:17:47.684
<v Virin Vedder>quickly as we can.
So after the silent period,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4256-4
00:17:47.684 --> 00:17:50.801
<v Virin Vedder>in the novice period,
a typical student understands and</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4256-5
00:17:50.801 --> 00:17:52.693
<v Virin Vedder>responds to most simple questions.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4311-0
00:17:52.693 --> 00:17:55.146
<v Virin Vedder>Questions first with one and two word
answers,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4311-1
00:17:55.146 --> 00:17:58.694
<v Virin Vedder>and eventually in this novice level,
a student understands and uses</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4311-2
00:17:58.694 --> 00:18:01.930
<v Virin Vedder>appropriate vocabulary and simple phrases
in short sentences.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4311-3
00:18:01.930 --> 00:18:06.052
<v Virin Vedder>We use this picture of a parrot in that
similar to what a parrot is hearing in</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4311-4
00:18:06.052 --> 00:18:10.279
<v Virin Vedder>its environment and able to repeat back.
That's kind of what's happening in this</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4311-5
00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:12.053
<v Virin Vedder>early stages of language learning.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4358-0
00:18:12.373 --> 00:18:16.193
<v Virin Vedder>In the intermediate stage,
which we see depicted as roughly from 4th</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4358-1
00:18:16.193 --> 00:18:19.404
<v Virin Vedder>through 8th grade,
students stay in this part of language</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4358-2
00:18:19.404 --> 00:18:23.003
<v Virin Vedder>development the longest.
That's because students acquire greater</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4358-3
00:18:23.003 --> 00:18:27.321
<v Virin Vedder>proficiency in the language in specific
domains like science, social studies,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4358-4
00:18:27.321 --> 00:18:28.373
<v Virin Vedder>literacy, and math.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4429-0
00:18:28.373 --> 00:18:31.638
<v Virin Vedder>At an intermediate level,
students should be able to follow almost</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4429-1
00:18:31.638 --> 00:18:34.270
<v Virin Vedder>all teacher input,
including some age appropriate and</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4429-2
00:18:34.270 --> 00:18:38.266
<v Virin Vedder>specialist technical references that are
presented in the context of the math and</v>

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00:18:38.266 --> 00:18:41.873
<v Virin Vedder>science that they might be learning.
And students at this stage typically</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4429-4
00:18:41.873 --> 00:18:46.015
<v Virin Vedder>start to begin showing some confidence in
their conversational exchanges with peers.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4429-5
00:18:46.015 --> 00:18:48.013
<v Virin Vedder>They can ask and answer simple questions.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4467-0
00:18:48.253 --> 00:18:52.305
<v Virin Vedder>On familiar topics and handle a simple
situation or transaction.</v>

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00:18:52.305 --> 00:18:56.857
<v Virin Vedder>Our goal is to get students to this
obviously advanced level of language</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4467-2
00:18:56.857 --> 00:18:59.787
<v Virin Vedder>learning,
where they can describe in the past,</v>

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00:18:59.787 --> 00:19:03.340
<v Virin Vedder>present, or future time,
as well as navigate complicated</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4467-4
00:19:03.340 --> 00:19:04.213
<v Virin Vedder>situations or.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4521-0
00:19:04.213 --> 00:19:07.481
<v Virin Vedder>Transactions.
A long term commitment is needed for</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4521-1
00:19:07.481 --> 00:19:11.070
<v Virin Vedder>students to achieve this advanced
language proficiency.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4521-2
00:19:11.070 --> 00:19:16.197
<v Virin Vedder>So this is a perfect opportunity for me
to stress to you parents that if you're</v>

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00:19:16.197 --> 00:19:19.786
<v Virin Vedder>considering DLI for your child,
keep this fact in mind.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4521-4
00:19:19.786 --> 00:19:22.413
<v Virin Vedder>Really think of this as a K12 investment.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4580-0
00:19:24.213 --> 00:19:28.511
<v Virin Vedder>So this is a list of some of our AKS,
which I told you was our term for</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4580-1
00:19:28.511 --> 00:19:33.048
<v Virin Vedder>academic knowledge and skills or sort of
curriculum standards that all GCPS</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4580-2
00:19:33.048 --> 00:19:37.168
<v Virin Vedder>kindergarten students are expected to
learn. But in the case of DLI,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4580-3
00:19:37.168 --> 00:19:41.884
<v Virin Vedder>students will learn these standards in
the partner language in many instances.</v>

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00:19:41.884 --> 00:19:43.973
<v Virin Vedder>So in this slide, just replace the.</v>

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00:19:44.133 --> 00:19:47.014
<v Virin Vedder>Length that you see with French,
Korean or Spanish,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4597-1
00:19:47.014 --> 00:19:51.502
<v Virin Vedder>and that's what would be a standard that
your child is learning in that language</v>

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00:19:51.502 --> 00:19:53.053
<v Virin Vedder>in terms of our DLI program.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4667-0
00:19:56.693 --> 00:20:01.386
<v Virin Vedder>So in high school world language programs,
which many of you might have participated</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4667-1
00:20:01.386 --> 00:20:04.533
<v Virin Vedder>in as students,
the emphasis is on oral language more so</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4667-2
00:20:04.533 --> 00:20:08.287
<v Virin Vedder>than on on written language.
And in typical traditional high school</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4667-3
00:20:08.287 --> 00:20:10.827
<v Virin Vedder>programs,
students don't get a lot of time or</v>

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00:20:10.827 --> 00:20:15.133
<v Virin Vedder>opportunity to be exposed to and practice
language from a variety of domains.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4727-0
00:20:15.293 --> 00:20:20.256
<v Virin Vedder>And you'll notice here that if a student
got these number of years of schooling,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4727-1
00:20:20.256 --> 00:20:25.096
<v Virin Vedder>they would have this intermediate level
of language ability in their speaking,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4727-2
00:20:25.096 --> 00:20:29.323
<v Virin Vedder>listening, reading, and writing domains.
The goal of DLI, of course,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4727-3
00:20:29.323 --> 00:20:32.938
<v Virin Vedder>is to start earlier and go much longer,
and in doing that,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4727-4
00:20:32.938 --> 00:20:34.653
<v Virin Vedder>we change fundamentally the.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4778-0
00:20:34.693 --> 00:20:38.782
<v Virin Vedder>The level of language ability.
So notice now we have a student starting</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4778-1
00:20:38.782 --> 00:20:42.700
<v Virin Vedder>in a DLI program in kindergarten,
continuing in through high school,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4778-2
00:20:42.700 --> 00:20:45.994
<v Virin Vedder>and now they are at advanced level of
language abilities.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4778-3
00:20:45.994 --> 00:20:50.480
<v Virin Vedder>What you see depicted under these grades
are sort of typical professions where</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4778-4
00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:53.773
<v Virin Vedder>that level of language proficiency is
needed to navigate.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4831-0
00:20:55.013 --> 00:20:59.800
<v Virin Vedder>So DLI allows students to start learning
earlier across multiple contexts and</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4831-1
00:20:59.800 --> 00:21:02.745
<v Virin Vedder>contents,
and for a much longer period of time,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4831-2
00:21:02.745 --> 00:21:06.918
<v Virin Vedder>ultimately resulting in much higher
levels of language proficiency.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4831-3
00:21:06.918 --> 00:21:09.618
<v Virin Vedder>So learning a language looks like a
funnel,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4831-4
00:21:09.618 --> 00:21:14.773
<v Virin Vedder>and the student learns those basic words
1st and then starts moving up this funnel.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4892-0
00:21:14.773 --> 00:21:18.460
<v Virin Vedder>Into additional,
more expanded content and more expanded</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4892-1
00:21:18.460 --> 00:21:22.470
<v Virin Vedder>language structures.
So that's why language does take time to</v>

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00:21:22.470 --> 00:21:26.156
<v Virin Vedder>become fluent at.
So here's another example of that just</v>

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00:21:26.156 --> 00:21:31.201
<v Virin Vedder>from DLI and one theme, which is science.
OK, look across these grade levels.</v>

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00:21:31.201 --> 00:21:34.693
<v Virin Vedder>What you see here is basically the
concept of animal.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4940-0
00:21:34.693 --> 00:21:35.173
<v Virin Vedder>Pacific.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4947-0
00:21:35.253 --> 00:21:38.890
<v Virin Vedder>And how it unfolds over the course of the
elementary school years.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4947-1
00:21:38.890 --> 00:21:43.123
<v Virin Vedder>This is a spiraled concept that comes
about in multiple grade levels over the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4947-2
00:21:43.123 --> 00:21:45.729
<v Virin Vedder>course of time.
But from a language standpoint,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4947-3
00:21:45.729 --> 00:21:48.388
<v Virin Vedder>because we're teaching language through
content,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4947-4
00:21:48.388 --> 00:21:52.731
<v Virin Vedder>notice that starting out in kindergarten,
those boldfaced words are like nouns,</v>

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00:21:52.731 --> 00:21:55.173
<v Virin Vedder>and then we move into the animal life
cycle.</v>

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00:21:55.253 --> 00:21:59.770
<v Virin Vedder>Where we're getting verbs come in,
ultimately getting up to that animal</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4985-1
00:21:59.770 --> 00:22:04.099
<v Virin Vedder>classification in fifth grade.
But we can't start here if we haven't</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/4985-2
00:22:04.099 --> 00:22:08.742
<v Virin Vedder>built those foundational linguistic
skills before it to be able to become</v>

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00:22:08.742 --> 00:22:10.373
<v Virin Vedder>fluent in that vocabulary.</v>

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00:22:10.613 --> 00:22:13.670
<v Virin Vedder>All right,
this DLI students get the same exact</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5039-1
00:22:13.670 --> 00:22:18.893
<v Virin Vedder>experience as non DLI students when it
comes to assessments in our school system.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5039-2
00:22:18.893 --> 00:22:24.243
<v Virin Vedder>So our students take certain assessments
in English that are required by state law.</v>

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00:22:24.243 --> 00:22:29.465
<v Virin Vedder>And this is a graph that shows all of the
different kinds of assessments students</v>

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00:22:29.465 --> 00:22:30.293
<v Virin Vedder>in GCPS have.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5093-0
00:22:30.453 --> 00:22:34.351
<v Virin Vedder>Have experiences with.
The only difference in DLI is what's</v>

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00:22:34.351 --> 00:22:38.834
<v Virin Vedder>highlighted here in yellow.
Our students take a language proficiency</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5093-2
00:22:38.834 --> 00:22:42.017
<v Virin Vedder>test in French, Korean,
or Spanish in 4th grade,</v>

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00:22:42.017 --> 00:22:46.305
<v Virin Vedder>also in 6th and 8th grades,
and then you as parents get something</v>

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00:22:46.305 --> 00:22:49.813
<v Virin Vedder>called a communication report twice a
year that lets.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5141-0
00:22:49.893 --> 00:22:53.494
<v Virin Vedder>You know how your child's developing in
their listening, speaking,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5141-1
00:22:53.494 --> 00:22:57.633
<v Virin Vedder>reading and writing abilities as well.
But in terms of all the other things,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5141-2
00:22:57.633 --> 00:23:01.825
<v Virin Vedder>they are getting assessed in English,
which is why those two teachers have to</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5141-3
00:23:01.825 --> 00:23:06.071
<v Virin Vedder>really intentionally collaborate and plan
to ensure that there's some language</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5141-4
00:23:06.071 --> 00:23:08.973
<v Virin Vedder>transfer happening along with that
content knowledge.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5185-0
00:23:09.493 --> 00:23:12.125
<v Virin Vedder>OK,
DLI in elementary school for GCPS was</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5185-1
00:23:12.125 --> 00:23:16.700
<v Virin Vedder>designed as a self-contained program.
What this means is we try to avoid</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5185-2
00:23:16.700 --> 00:23:21.589
<v Virin Vedder>pulling students from DLI classrooms so
that we can maximize the time we have</v>

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00:23:21.589 --> 00:23:24.973
<v Virin Vedder>available for instruction in that
immersion language.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5242-0
00:23:25.413 --> 00:23:29.155
<v Virin Vedder>Since our program teaches language and
content simultaneously,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5181-0
00:23:25.533 --> 00:23:26.093
<v Leannie Zuniga>Which?</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5242-1
00:23:29.155 --> 00:23:33.848
<v Virin Vedder>any time spent outside the immersion
setting is time and opportunity lost when</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5242-2
00:23:33.848 --> 00:23:36.817
<v Virin Vedder>it comes to making gains in language
proficiency.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5242-3
00:23:36.817 --> 00:23:41.510
<v Virin Vedder>So we have to take that information into
account if and when a student becomes</v>

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00:23:41.510 --> 00:23:45.133
<v Virin Vedder>eligible for additional supports or
programs offered in our.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5292-0
00:23:45.333 --> 00:23:49.273
<v Virin Vedder>DLI elementary school settings.
So we support students who become</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5292-1
00:23:49.273 --> 00:23:53.571
<v Virin Vedder>eligible for gifted services or English
to speakers of other languages.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5292-2
00:23:53.571 --> 00:23:57.571
<v Virin Vedder>That's known as ESOL exclusively within
the DLI classroom setting.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5292-3
00:23:57.571 --> 00:24:01.213
<v Virin Vedder>That means our teachers have been trained,
our DLI teachers,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5292-4
00:24:01.213 --> 00:24:05.093
<v Virin Vedder>to differentiate their instruction for
those students who maybe.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5342-0
00:24:05.093 --> 00:24:08.447
<v Virin Vedder>Learn in a different way as a gifted,
identified learner,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5342-1
00:24:08.447 --> 00:24:13.245
<v Virin Vedder>or who might need some additional support
with still acquiring English proficiency</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5342-2
00:24:13.245 --> 00:24:16.136
<v Virin Vedder>skills.
If a child is in DLI and determined to be</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5342-3
00:24:16.136 --> 00:24:20.126
<v Virin Vedder>eligible and in need of something called
special education supports,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5342-4
00:24:20.126 --> 00:24:23.652
<v Virin Vedder>then working as a team,
which would include you as a parent,</v>

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00:24:23.652 --> 00:24:24.693
<v Virin Vedder>we would craft an.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5388-0
00:24:24.853 --> 00:24:29.255
<v Virin Vedder>An individualized education plan,
or an IEP that will best meet the needs</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5388-1
00:24:29.255 --> 00:24:32.349
<v Virin Vedder>of the student.
And I have to say here that if it's</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5388-2
00:24:32.349 --> 00:24:36.989
<v Virin Vedder>determined that the student's needs by
that individualized education plan are</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5388-3
00:24:36.989 --> 00:24:41.093
<v Virin Vedder>best met by the student receiving support
outside the DLI classroom.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5457-0
00:24:41.333 --> 00:24:45.483
<v Virin Vedder>And it has happening at such a frequency
or an intensity that it makes it hard for</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5457-1
00:24:45.483 --> 00:24:48.283
<v Virin Vedder>them to continue learning the language
and the content.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5457-2
00:24:48.283 --> 00:24:51.083
<v Virin Vedder>Then it will be necessary to remove a
student from DLI.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5457-3
00:24:51.083 --> 00:24:54.883
<v Virin Vedder>But all the rules that govern special
education services will be taken into</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5457-4
00:24:54.883 --> 00:24:58.083
<v Virin Vedder>consideration when we craft these IEPs.
And again, as a parent,</v>

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00:24:58.083 --> 00:25:00.933
<v Virin Vedder>you would be brought to the table for
this conversation.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5471-0
00:25:00.933 --> 00:25:05.683
<v Virin Vedder>Conversation Students who struggle in DLI
get support in DLI,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5471-1
00:25:05.683 --> 00:25:09.053
<v Virin Vedder>just like students who struggle in not
DLI.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5534-0
00:25:10.053 --> 00:25:14.714
<v Virin Vedder>We're here talking about elementary,
but we do want to just briefly show that</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5534-1
00:25:14.714 --> 00:25:19.256
<v Virin Vedder>after elementary comes middle school and
high school and in K through five,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5534-2
00:25:19.256 --> 00:25:24.096
<v Virin Vedder>that two teacher 5050 model is what we
follow. But when we get to middle school,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5534-3
00:25:24.096 --> 00:25:28.458
<v Virin Vedder>it shifts and we begin pivoting out of
math and science instruction in a</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5534-4
00:25:28.458 --> 00:25:29.653
<v Virin Vedder>language so that we.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5586-0
00:25:29.693 --> 00:25:34.284
<v Virin Vedder>Can become more precise in the immersion
language so we can better prepare</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5586-1
00:25:34.284 --> 00:25:37.284
<v Virin Vedder>students for that advanced level language
study.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5586-2
00:25:37.284 --> 00:25:42.181
<v Virin Vedder>So these three P's are what we kind of
define as our middle school continuation</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5586-3
00:25:42.181 --> 00:25:45.180
<v Virin Vedder>model.
How we do that is students no longer take</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5586-4
00:25:45.180 --> 00:25:48.853
<v Virin Vedder>math and science in the language,
but those are in English.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5642-0
00:25:49.093 --> 00:25:51.834
<v Virin Vedder>And instead,
during what is called a connections time</v>

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00:25:51.834 --> 00:25:54.982
<v Virin Vedder>of the day in middle school,
we have dual language immersion,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5642-2
00:25:54.982 --> 00:25:58.739
<v Virin Vedder>specialized programming that's still
happening in the immersion language.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5642-3
00:25:58.739 --> 00:26:01.683
<v Virin Vedder>So at that point,
a student can now have two of their six</v>

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00:26:01.683 --> 00:26:04.780
<v Virin Vedder>middle school classes still being in the
immersion language.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5642-5
00:26:04.780 --> 00:26:08.333
<v Virin Vedder>And these are the courses that we offer
in our middle school context.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5702-0
00:26:08.773 --> 00:26:11.281
<v Virin Vedder>And we can talk about this more,
of course,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5702-1
00:26:11.281 --> 00:26:15.669
<v Virin Vedder>once we get closer to middle school.
But a preview of this I will share in a</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5702-2
00:26:15.669 --> 00:26:19.773
<v Virin Vedder>moment is that our students leaving
middle school leave with three high</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5702-3
00:26:19.773 --> 00:26:23.991
<v Virin Vedder>school credits, our DLI students.
I should go back and say that is unique</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5702-4
00:26:23.991 --> 00:26:27.068
<v Virin Vedder>to only DLI.
No other content area in Gwinnett County</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5702-5
00:26:27.068 --> 00:26:28.493
<v Virin Vedder>Public Schools allows us.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5746-0
00:26:28.613 --> 00:26:33.039
<v Virin Vedder>Student to leave middle school program
with three high school credits already</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5746-1
00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:36.103
<v Virin Vedder>sort of under their belt.
When we get to high school,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5746-2
00:26:36.103 --> 00:26:40.018
<v Virin Vedder>we try to connect now whatever happens
after Gwinnett County School.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5746-3
00:26:40.018 --> 00:26:44.614
<v Virin Vedder>Maybe it's college, maybe it's careers,
but the language skills that they've got</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5746-4
00:26:44.614 --> 00:26:46.373
<v Virin Vedder>should take them into a higher.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5808-0
00:26:46.453 --> 00:26:49.348
<v Virin Vedder>Path regardless of what happens after
high school.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5808-1
00:26:49.348 --> 00:26:53.604
<v Virin Vedder>So I mentioned that our students leave
middle school with three credits of</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5808-2
00:26:53.604 --> 00:26:56.555
<v Virin Vedder>language.
So when they enter 9th grade as freshmen,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5808-3
00:26:56.555 --> 00:27:00.698
<v Virin Vedder>they enter Level 4 of the language.
And that means when they get to 10th</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5808-4
00:27:00.698 --> 00:27:03.479
<v Virin Vedder>grade,
we are already preparing our students for</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5808-5
00:27:03.479 --> 00:27:06.373
<v Virin Vedder>Advanced Placement coursework,
Advanced Placement.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5851-0
00:27:06.373 --> 00:27:06.773
<v Virin Vedder>Is.</v>

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00:27:06.853 --> 00:27:11.940
<v Virin Vedder>A course put on or actually sponsored by
an organization called the College Board,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5863-1
00:27:11.940 --> 00:27:16.966
<v Virin Vedder>and it's exactly what the name implies.
It's a college level course that students</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5863-2
00:27:16.966 --> 00:27:21.625
<v Virin Vedder>are taking while in high school and our
students in middle school have been</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5863-3
00:27:21.625 --> 00:27:26.160
<v Virin Vedder>exposed through our programming of these
specialized DLI classes that are</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5863-4
00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:26.773
<v Virin Vedder>equipping.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5925-0
00:27:26.853 --> 00:27:31.373
<v Virin Vedder>Them with the themes that happened during
Advanced Placement study in high school,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5925-1
00:27:31.373 --> 00:27:35.511
<v Virin Vedder>so they're getting prepared in middle
school for AP work as high schoolers.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5925-2
00:27:35.511 --> 00:27:38.234
<v Virin Vedder>Once they complete 10th grade Advanced
Placement,</v>

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00:27:38.234 --> 00:27:42.481
<v Virin Vedder>there are opportunities in Spanish for an
additional AP courses 11th graders,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5925-4
00:27:42.481 --> 00:27:46.293
<v Virin Vedder>but there are also options for either
taking on a new language or do.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5969-0
00:27:46.493 --> 00:27:50.031
<v Virin Vedder>Something called dual enrollment,
whereas a parent you pay no college</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5969-1
00:27:50.031 --> 00:27:52.660
<v Virin Vedder>tuition fees,
but your child gets to attend college</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5969-2
00:27:52.660 --> 00:27:55.895
<v Virin Vedder>while in high school.
They're sitting in a high school setting,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5969-3
00:27:55.895 --> 00:28:00.039
<v Virin Vedder>but they are earning college credit and
also high school credit at the same time,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/5969-4
00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:03.173
<v Virin Vedder>and you pay absolutely nothing for it as
it currently stands.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6019-0
00:28:03.573 --> 00:28:07.985
<v Virin Vedder>So we're working with some university
partners to create what we're calling</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6019-1
00:28:07.985 --> 00:28:12.223
<v Virin Vedder>bridge opportunities for our dual
immersion students to have potentially</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6019-2
00:28:12.223 --> 00:28:15.706
<v Virin Vedder>those dual enrollment options when they
get to high school.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6019-3
00:28:15.706 --> 00:28:19.596
<v Virin Vedder>So let's look at these additional
benefits from kids being in DLI.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6019-4
00:28:19.596 --> 00:28:23.253
<v Virin Vedder>All students perform in DLI differently,
of course, unique to.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6061-0
00:28:23.333 --> 00:28:27.941
<v Virin Vedder>Student and their educational journey.
But the general trend of students</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6061-1
00:28:27.941 --> 00:28:32.801
<v Virin Vedder>performing as well as their their model,
their peers who are learning in one</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6061-2
00:28:32.801 --> 00:28:37.536
<v Virin Vedder>language is true in our program and
across any well implemented program in</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6061-3
00:28:37.536 --> 00:28:38.293
<v Virin Vedder>our country.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6126-0
00:28:38.533 --> 00:28:41.348
<v Virin Vedder>We know that students in DLI are often
more engaged.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6126-1
00:28:41.348 --> 00:28:45.491
<v Virin Vedder>They have a self-esteem that comes about
because of their skills that they're</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6126-2
00:28:45.491 --> 00:28:47.828
<v Virin Vedder>building.
This is research showing that our</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6126-3
00:28:47.828 --> 00:28:52.131
<v Virin Vedder>students who are put in these programs
have a a level of maturity that's kind of</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6126-4
00:28:52.131 --> 00:28:55.795
<v Virin Vedder>unique. In our DLI programs,
many of these students will be together</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6126-5
00:28:55.795 --> 00:28:57.973
<v Virin Vedder>for six years, so they develop a sort of.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6184-0
00:28:58.053 --> 00:29:02.303
<v Virin Vedder>Like family identity because they've been
with these same students for so long and</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6184-1
00:29:02.303 --> 00:29:05.939
<v Virin Vedder>that's just a unique trait that comes
about with being in this kind of</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6184-2
00:29:05.939 --> 00:29:08.601
<v Virin Vedder>programming.
So one thing I teased up is that those</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6184-3
00:29:08.601 --> 00:29:11.878
<v Virin Vedder>students leaving 8th grade will have
three high school credits.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6184-4
00:29:11.878 --> 00:29:14.336
<v Virin Vedder>So I mentioned about this long term
commitment.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6184-5
00:29:14.336 --> 00:29:17.613
<v Virin Vedder>This is one of the carrots that we dangle
in front of students.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6229-0
00:29:17.813 --> 00:29:22.037
<v Virin Vedder>When they get into middle school to keep
moving forward with their language</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6229-1
00:29:22.037 --> 00:29:24.927
<v Virin Vedder>learning.
If they finish 8th grade with our special</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6229-2
00:29:24.927 --> 00:29:28.651
<v Virin Vedder>DLI programming courses,
they will leave an inner high school with</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6229-3
00:29:28.651 --> 00:29:31.874
<v Virin Vedder>those 3 credits.
So This is why you're here talking about</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6229-4
00:29:31.874 --> 00:29:34.653
<v Virin Vedder>how to participate.
So if you are falling asleep.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6277-0
00:29:34.813 --> 00:29:39.623
<v Virin Vedder>Throughout all of that stuff I just
shared, please wake up all right,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6277-1
00:29:39.623 --> 00:29:44.227
<v Virin Vedder>because this is what we really need you
to lean in and listen for.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6277-2
00:29:44.227 --> 00:29:49.106
<v Virin Vedder>DLI registration is a separate process
from kindergarten registration,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6277-3
00:29:49.106 --> 00:29:54.053
<v Virin Vedder>so all parents interested in DLI must
first register their student for.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6316-0
00:29:54.373 --> 00:29:59.397
<v Virin Vedder>Gardner at your home school.
That's the school that your address is</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6316-1
00:29:59.397 --> 00:30:03.681
<v Virin Vedder>zoned to attend,
meaning if the bus offers transportation</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6316-2
00:30:03.681 --> 00:30:08.927
<v Virin Vedder>to your house or your apartment,
that would be the school that is your</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6316-3
00:30:08.927 --> 00:30:09.813
<v Virin Vedder>home school.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6356-0
00:30:10.013 --> 00:30:14.910
<v Virin Vedder>And what you will do is access the web
page of your home school and there will</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6356-1
00:30:14.910 --> 00:30:19.560
<v Virin Vedder>be a link for the registration process to
begin kindergarten registration.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6356-2
00:30:19.560 --> 00:30:24.333
<v Virin Vedder>That process will open the exact same
time and date as the DLI registration.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6395-0
00:30:25.613 --> 00:30:29.404
<v Virin Vedder>Process.
So you'll see highlighted on the screen</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6395-1
00:30:29.404 --> 00:30:35.594
<v Virin Vedder>March 16th at 8:00 AM this year is when
both the online registration system for</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6395-2
00:30:35.594 --> 00:30:40.933
<v Virin Vedder>kindergarten opens and it's also when the
DLI application will open.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6433-0
00:30:40.973 --> 00:30:44.990
<v Virin Vedder>Our dual language immersion website
contains all this information and we'll</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6433-1
00:30:44.990 --> 00:30:49.007
<v Virin Vedder>show you how to get to that in a moment,
but that's where you can find more</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6433-2
00:30:49.007 --> 00:30:52.548
<v Virin Vedder>details about this program.
You can watch that video again and get</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6433-3
00:30:52.548 --> 00:30:55.613
<v Virin Vedder>more information if you haven't already
looked at it, so.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6494-0
00:30:57.053 --> 00:31:00.065
<v Virin Vedder>The way our system works is this.
Each school principal,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6494-1
00:31:00.065 --> 00:31:03.922
<v Virin Vedder>each elementary school principal
determines what the cohort size will be</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6494-2
00:31:03.922 --> 00:31:06.564
<v Virin Vedder>for DLI.
If you'll remember back in that example,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6494-3
00:31:06.564 --> 00:31:10.580
<v Virin Vedder>I kind of shared the idea of your child
might be in with 24 other students.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6494-4
00:31:10.580 --> 00:31:14.807
<v Virin Vedder>And so let's just say 25 students are in
each of those two teachers classrooms,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6494-5
00:31:14.807 --> 00:31:16.973
<v Virin Vedder>meaning 50 total students represents the.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6554-0
00:31:17.053 --> 00:31:20.603
<v Virin Vedder>Cohort for DLI.
The way this works is our registration</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6554-1
00:31:20.603 --> 00:31:24.734
<v Virin Vedder>closes on May 8th at 3:00.
This is not first come, first serve,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6554-2
00:31:24.734 --> 00:31:29.962
<v Virin Vedder>so you can set your alarm clock for 8:00
AM on March 16th if you want and put in</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6554-3
00:31:29.962 --> 00:31:33.705
<v Virin Vedder>your application.
But it doesn't matter if you do it then</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6554-4
00:31:33.705 --> 00:31:36.093
<v Virin Vedder>or if you wait until 2:00 on May 8th.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6593-0
00:31:36.653 --> 00:31:41.353
<v Virin Vedder>What happens is that when we close the
registration on May 8th at 3:00,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6593-1
00:31:41.353 --> 00:31:45.858
<v Virin Vedder>we look and see how many applications
were received for each school.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6593-2
00:31:45.858 --> 00:31:51.211
<v Virin Vedder>You can only select one DLI school if 50
is determined to be the magic number for</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6593-3
00:31:51.211 --> 00:31:52.973
<v Virin Vedder>the cohort for that school.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6658-0
00:31:53.973 --> 00:31:58.581
<v Virin Vedder>Then we will look to see if we have more
applications than that cohort number.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6658-1
00:31:58.581 --> 00:32:01.906
<v Virin Vedder>If we do have more applications,
even if it's just by 1,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6658-2
00:32:01.906 --> 00:32:06.514
<v Virin Vedder>all go into a lottery and that lottery
will be happening May 15th and you as a</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6658-3
00:32:06.514 --> 00:32:10.947
<v Virin Vedder>parent are going to get notified every
step of the way when you submit your</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6658-4
00:32:10.947 --> 00:32:12.813
<v Virin Vedder>application for DLI, you'll get.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6712-0
00:32:12.813 --> 00:32:16.095
<v Virin Vedder>Notification that it was received.
If we have a lottery,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6712-1
00:32:16.095 --> 00:32:20.011
<v Virin Vedder>you'll get notification of the results.
If we don't have a lottery,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6712-2
00:32:20.011 --> 00:32:24.272
<v Virin Vedder>you'll get notification that your child's
been accepted into the program.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6712-3
00:32:24.272 --> 00:32:27.439
<v Virin Vedder>I do need to say there's some special
qualifiers here.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6712-4
00:32:27.439 --> 00:32:31.930
<v Virin Vedder>We give priority to those students who
live in the attendance zone of the DLI</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6712-5
00:32:31.930 --> 00:32:32.333
<v Virin Vedder>school.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6776-0
00:32:32.653 --> 00:32:37.942
<v Virin Vedder>So if there are 50 spots in a cohort and
we have 51 interested participants from</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6776-1
00:32:37.942 --> 00:32:42.121
<v Virin Vedder>within that school's attendance zone,
all 51 go into a lottery.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6776-2
00:32:42.121 --> 00:32:47.215
<v Virin Vedder>The 1st 50 will get into the program.
Then that 51st will be the first one on</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6776-3
00:32:47.215 --> 00:32:50.741
<v Virin Vedder>the wait list.
The wait list is a good for the entire</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6776-4
00:32:50.741 --> 00:32:52.373
<v Virin Vedder>kindergarten school year.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6815-0
00:32:52.773 --> 00:32:56.772
<v Virin Vedder>If we have movement on the wait list,
the school will contact you to let you</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6815-1
00:32:56.772 --> 00:32:59.888
<v Virin Vedder>know of an opening.
And then you know if you desire at that</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6815-2
00:32:59.888 --> 00:33:03.523
<v Virin Vedder>point to participate, you can.
And that process continues, as I said,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6815-3
00:33:03.523 --> 00:33:07.833
<v Virin Vedder>for the entire kindergarten school year.
So first priority goes to those living in</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6815-4
00:33:07.833 --> 00:33:08.093
<v Virin Vedder>zone.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6874-0
00:33:08.173 --> 00:33:12.211
<v Virin Vedder>Some years we've had the ability to
accept participants from out of a school</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6874-1
00:33:12.211 --> 00:33:16.406
<v Virin Vedder>zone. Some years, depending on the school,
they have a lottery for just in zone</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6874-2
00:33:16.406 --> 00:33:20.234
<v Virin Vedder>folks. And then in that instance,
if a lottery has to be had for in zone</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6874-3
00:33:20.234 --> 00:33:22.804
<v Virin Vedder>folks,
anyone out of the zone goes also into the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6874-4
00:33:22.804 --> 00:33:26.842
<v Virin Vedder>lottery and they are added to the wait
list in the order that they're pulled</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6874-5
00:33:26.842 --> 00:33:27.733
<v Virin Vedder>from the lottery.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6927-0
00:33:28.213 --> 00:33:32.640
<v Virin Vedder>If you do not get into the school that
you want and you're on a wait list,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6927-1
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:36.359
<v Virin Vedder>when you get the notification of that,
which will be May 19th,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6927-2
00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:41.318
<v Virin Vedder>you will be given a list of those schools
that did not need a lottery and you might</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6927-3
00:33:41.318 --> 00:33:44.387
<v Virin Vedder>be able to then contact them to to get
into a spot.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6927-4
00:33:44.387 --> 00:33:47.693
<v Virin Vedder>We do need to share if you do get into a
school and it.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6977-0
00:33:47.693 --> 00:33:51.903
<v Virin Vedder>Is not your home school.
There will not be transportation provided</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6977-1
00:33:51.903 --> 00:33:56.616
<v Virin Vedder>and it will be on you as parents to
provide transportation to and from the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6977-2
00:33:56.616 --> 00:34:00.449
<v Virin Vedder>school every day. OK,
so that's something to kind of keep in</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6977-3
00:34:00.449 --> 00:34:05.477
<v Virin Vedder>mind and and and I will say that there's
a process by which you will have to do</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/6977-4
00:34:05.477 --> 00:34:07.613
<v Virin Vedder>this called a permissive transfer.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7021-0
00:34:08.013 --> 00:34:11.569
<v Virin Vedder>And one thing that can cancel a
permissive transfer is if a student's</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7021-1
00:34:11.569 --> 00:34:14.109
<v Virin Vedder>attendance,
including arriving to school on time,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7021-2
00:34:14.109 --> 00:34:17.462
<v Virin Vedder>are kind of compromised.
So because you're the parent and the one</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7021-3
00:34:17.462 --> 00:34:21.526
<v Virin Vedder>having to deal with the transportation,
just know that your actions kind of can</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7021-4
00:34:21.526 --> 00:34:23.253
<v Virin Vedder>impact your child if they are not.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7071-0
00:34:23.293 --> 00:34:28.233
<v Virin Vedder>Attending the school that is their home
school and and that transportation has to</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7071-1
00:34:28.233 --> 00:34:32.450
<v Virin Vedder>be provided by you and you you know are
are routinely late to school.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7071-2
00:34:32.450 --> 00:34:36.969
<v Virin Vedder>So keep that in mind. All right.
So I think what I want to do right now is</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7071-3
00:34:36.969 --> 00:34:41.547
<v Virin Vedder>just go out and show you where you can
find this information that is on the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7071-4
00:34:41.547 --> 00:34:43.053
<v Virin Vedder>website. So bear with me.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7093-0
00:34:43.133 --> 00:34:48.453
<v Virin Vedder>Second while I shift gears here and then
we're going to take the rest of the time</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7093-1
00:34:48.453 --> 00:34:52.995
<v Virin Vedder>for questions and for questions.
So I'm going out right now on to the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7093-2
00:34:52.995 --> 00:34:56.693
<v Virin Vedder>Gwinnett County Public Schools website
and then in here.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7150-0
00:35:01.133 --> 00:35:07.324
<v Virin Vedder>This pull down option is this programs
button and over here you'll notice DLI.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7150-1
00:35:07.324 --> 00:35:11.869
<v Virin Vedder>So right here is where if you have not
visited this site,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7150-2
00:35:11.869 --> 00:35:15.318
<v Virin Vedder>we'd like to encourage you to go and do
so.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7150-3
00:35:15.318 --> 00:35:20.333
<v Virin Vedder>This is where you're going to see the
link for the application.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7186-0
00:35:20.733 --> 00:35:23.586
<v Virin Vedder>When it opens,
it's going to be right here where this</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7186-1
00:35:23.586 --> 00:35:26.808
<v Virin Vedder>placeholder now says the application will
be available soon.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7186-2
00:35:26.808 --> 00:35:29.554
<v Virin Vedder>So on March 16th at 8:00,
the link will live there.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7186-3
00:35:29.554 --> 00:35:33.410
<v Virin Vedder>It will also live on the websites of the
individual DLI schools as well,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7186-4
00:35:33.410 --> 00:35:35.893
<v Virin Vedder>but this is where you will be able to
find it.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7227-0
00:35:36.133 --> 00:35:39.492
<v Virin Vedder>And this is, by the way,
where you might also want to go and</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7227-1
00:35:39.492 --> 00:35:42.411
<v Virin Vedder>download these parent guidelines and
understandings.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7227-2
00:35:42.411 --> 00:35:46.817
<v Virin Vedder>It has all the nitty-gritty details about
what I kind of just tried to describe</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7227-3
00:35:46.817 --> 00:35:50.672
<v Virin Vedder>quickly. As far as priority,
I will say this if you are a parent of a</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7227-4
00:35:50.672 --> 00:35:51.773
<v Virin Vedder>current DLI student.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7286-0
00:35:51.853 --> 00:35:55.471
<v Virin Vedder>Your rising kindergarten student
automatically gets into the program,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7286-1
00:35:55.471 --> 00:35:58.314
<v Virin Vedder>even if we need to go to a lottery.
That's so at home,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7286-2
00:35:58.314 --> 00:36:02.242
<v Virin Vedder>there can still be language conversations
happening with siblings. However,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7286-3
00:36:02.242 --> 00:36:04.723
<v Virin Vedder>if you are a parent of an existing DLI
student,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7286-4
00:36:04.723 --> 00:36:08.289
<v Virin Vedder>you must submit an application for your
rising kindergarten student,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7286-5
00:36:08.289 --> 00:36:11.493
<v Virin Vedder>because we don't know you have a rising
kindergarten student.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7321-0
00:36:11.973 --> 00:36:17.014
<v Virin Vedder>Will not automatically put them in the
program unless you submit that. OK,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7321-1
00:36:17.014 --> 00:36:22.391
<v Virin Vedder>so here's our website where you will I
think wanna go and navigate to find that</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7321-2
00:36:22.391 --> 00:36:27.163
<v Virin Vedder>application come March 16th.
Siblings that are multiples like you have</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7321-3
00:36:27.163 --> 00:36:28.373
<v Virin Vedder>twins or triplets.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7358-0
00:36:28.973 --> 00:36:34.170
<v Virin Vedder>Quadruplets, which we had one year,
you are still able to have you.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7358-1
00:36:34.170 --> 00:36:37.992
<v Virin Vedder>You have one entry if we have to go to a
lottery,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7358-2
00:36:37.992 --> 00:36:44.182
<v Virin Vedder>but if one of your child children get in,
all of the multiple siblings then also</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7358-3
00:36:44.182 --> 00:36:46.093
<v Virin Vedder>are admitted as well, OK.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7406-0
00:36:46.173 --> 00:36:50.053
<v Virin Vedder>And then the other special case is,
if you're a parent and you are a DLI</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7406-1
00:36:50.053 --> 00:36:52.444
<v Virin Vedder>teacher,
your child automatically gets in as</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7406-2
00:36:52.444 --> 00:36:56.217
<v Virin Vedder>well-being a teacher is tough.
Teaching DLI adds a layer of complexity</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7406-3
00:36:56.217 --> 00:36:58.874
<v Virin Vedder>to it.
So that's a perk we give our DLI teachers,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7406-4
00:36:58.874 --> 00:37:01.053
<v Virin Vedder>but they must also submit an application.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7446-0
00:37:01.453 --> 00:37:05.638
<v Virin Vedder>I think I've covered all of the things
and at this point what I want to do is I</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7446-1
00:37:05.638 --> 00:37:09.301
<v Virin Vedder>guess open it up for questions.
So if you've been thinking of things,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7446-2
00:37:09.301 --> 00:37:12.492
<v Virin Vedder>please put them in.
I know Miss Galindo's answering some and</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7446-3
00:37:12.492 --> 00:37:16.730
<v Virin Vedder>she's going to now answer more and then
we can also have people come off mic and</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7446-4
00:37:16.730 --> 00:37:19.293
<v Virin Vedder>and ask whatever might be brewing in
their head.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7496-0
00:37:23.453 --> 00:37:29.533
<v Diana Galindo>I just wanted to put out a question out
there regarding priority being given to</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7496-1
00:37:29.533 --> 00:37:33.485
<v Diana Galindo>GCPS staff.
The more general I guess answer to that</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7496-2
00:37:33.485 --> 00:37:38.957
<v Diana Galindo>is DLI teachers, as you stated,
Doctor Vetter do have priority and that</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7496-3
00:37:38.957 --> 00:37:43.213
<v Diana Galindo>their students are automatically enrolled
as a perk of.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7518-0
00:37:43.293 --> 00:37:46.947
<v Diana Galindo>Being a dual language immersion teacher,
however,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7518-1
00:37:46.947 --> 00:37:52.794
<v Diana Galindo>other GCPS staff are not necessarily do
not necessarily have that same quote UN</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7518-2
00:37:52.794 --> 00:37:56.813
<v Diana Galindo>quote perk.
It would be a regular application process.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7517-0
00:37:57.853 --> 00:37:58.133
<v Virin Vedder>Thank you.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7549-0
00:38:06.493 --> 00:38:11.057
<v Diana Galindo>There are other questions, Dr. Vetter,
being asked. So, for example,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7549-1
00:38:11.057 --> 00:38:16.613
<v Diana Galindo>if students eventually test into gifted,
how are they supported in the DLI setting?</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7606-0
00:38:16.493 --> 00:38:19.988
<v Virin Vedder>That's a great question.
And so remember I mentioned it's a</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7606-1
00:38:19.988 --> 00:38:23.541
<v Virin Vedder>self-contained model.
And so if a child becomes eligible for</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7606-2
00:38:23.541 --> 00:38:27.968
<v Virin Vedder>gifted services and the earliest that
happens in Gwinnett County Schools is</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7606-3
00:38:27.968 --> 00:38:31.404
<v Virin Vedder>generally first grade,
then your child will receive gifted</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7606-4
00:38:31.404 --> 00:38:36.180
<v Virin Vedder>education supports in the DLI classrooms,
both the immersion language teacher and</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7606-5
00:38:36.180 --> 00:38:36.413
<v Virin Vedder>the.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7653-0
00:38:36.493 --> 00:38:40.414
<v Virin Vedder>English side teacher have to go through
gifted endorsement course work and</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7653-1
00:38:40.414 --> 00:38:42.819
<v Virin Vedder>training,
which is a year long graduate level</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7653-2
00:38:42.819 --> 00:38:46.950
<v Virin Vedder>course of study and that's where they're
getting trained and equipped with the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7653-3
00:38:46.950 --> 00:38:50.610
<v Virin Vedder>strategies and skills to kind of
differentiate the learning for those</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7653-4
00:38:50.610 --> 00:38:52.962
<v Virin Vedder>students who have been identified as
gifted.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7653-5
00:38:52.962 --> 00:38:56.413
<v Virin Vedder>So they will remain in the dual language
immersion classrooms to.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7655-0
00:38:56.533 --> 00:38:57.853
<v Virin Vedder>That support.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7680-0
00:39:01.733 --> 00:39:05.466
<v Diana Galindo>All right,
there are other questions regarding</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7680-1
00:39:05.466 --> 00:39:09.040
<v Diana Galindo>lotteries,
and this is very school specific,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7666-0
00:39:06.573 --> 00:39:07.093
<v Virin Vedder>Yes.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7680-2
00:39:09.040 --> 00:39:12.773
<v Diana Galindo>but please feel free to elaborate, Dr.
Better.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7701-0
00:39:15.653 --> 00:39:25.133
<v Virin Vedder>So we have traditionally needed to go to
lottery at Level Creek and at Ivy Creek.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7754-0
00:39:25.853 --> 00:39:29.554
<v Virin Vedder>We have gone to lottery at Trip
Elementary School for French.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7754-1
00:39:29.554 --> 00:39:33.196
<v Virin Vedder>We've come close to going to lottery for
Parsons for Korean.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7754-2
00:39:33.196 --> 00:39:37.255
<v Virin Vedder>I think actually in one year we may have
every year it's different.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7754-3
00:39:37.255 --> 00:39:41.791
<v Virin Vedder>So I can't obviously tell you with
certainty, but from historical purposes,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7754-4
00:39:41.791 --> 00:39:45.373
<v Virin Vedder>those are schools that I mentioned that
traditionally have.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7791-0
00:39:46.133 --> 00:39:51.214
<v Virin Vedder>Historically needed lotteries in the case
of, I'm sorry, Camp Creek as well.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7791-1
00:39:51.214 --> 00:39:56.625
<v Virin Vedder>I can tell you Camp Creek and Level Creek
Elementary's usually need a lottery for</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7791-2
00:39:56.625 --> 00:40:02.101
<v Virin Vedder>in zone participants and then anyone out
of the zone of those schools is generally</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7791-3
00:40:02.101 --> 00:40:02.893
<v Virin Vedder>wait listed.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7828-0
00:40:03.053 --> 00:40:07.990
<v Virin Vedder>The other schools might not need lottery,
and that may be because in some of our</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7828-1
00:40:07.990 --> 00:40:12.561
<v Virin Vedder>schools, in most of our schools,
only one pair of teachers per grade level</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7828-2
00:40:12.561 --> 00:40:15.852
<v Virin Vedder>is doing dual language immersion.
But at two schools,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7828-3
00:40:15.852 --> 00:40:18.533
<v Virin Vedder>Bethesda Elementary and Hopkins
Elementary.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7876-0
00:40:19.533 --> 00:40:23.535
<v Virin Vedder>Half of the school is doing DLI,
so there's four teachers at every grade</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7876-1
00:40:23.535 --> 00:40:27.975
<v Virin Vedder>level, so there's more spots available.
So that's part of the reason I think why</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7876-2
00:40:27.975 --> 00:40:30.990
<v Virin Vedder>we have, you know,
differences in terms of schools and</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7876-3
00:40:30.990 --> 00:40:33.786
<v Virin Vedder>lotteries,
but it's ultimately dependent on you as</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7876-4
00:40:33.786 --> 00:40:37.459
<v Virin Vedder>parents and and your interest in this
program at present for 2627,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7876-5
00:40:37.459 --> 00:40:39.213
<v Virin Vedder>there will be no new additional.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7878-0
00:40:39.293 --> 00:40:41.733
<v Virin Vedder>Schools coming on board with lottery.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7938-0
00:40:46.893 --> 00:40:51.811
<v Virin Vedder>So priorities given to in zone applicants
if there happens to be a lottery in that</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7938-1
00:40:51.811 --> 00:40:56.669
<v Virin Vedder>there's effectively 2 separate buckets.
All of the in zone applicants are treated</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7938-2
00:40:56.669 --> 00:41:01.587
<v Virin Vedder>in one bucket and then if if the school
needs to go to a lottery for just in zone,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7938-3
00:41:01.587 --> 00:41:04.253
<v Virin Vedder>that's one lottery and the results then
are.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7985-0
00:41:04.333 --> 00:41:07.080
<v Virin Vedder>You know,
determined by the lottery and there will</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7985-1
00:41:07.080 --> 00:41:11.389
<v Virin Vedder>be a wait list of just in zone folks.
But then if all out of zone folks are put</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7985-2
00:41:11.389 --> 00:41:15.645
<v Virin Vedder>into a separate lottery and the order in
which they're pulled in that lottery,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7985-3
00:41:15.645 --> 00:41:20.116
<v Virin Vedder>they just get added to the the wait list
of those already on the wait list from in</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/7985-4
00:41:20.116 --> 00:41:21.893
<v Virin Vedder>zone. I hope I'm explaining that.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8017-0
00:41:22.093 --> 00:41:25.889
<v Virin Vedder>I did put in the chat two things,
the presentation being one and then the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8017-1
00:41:25.889 --> 00:41:28.351
<v Virin Vedder>guidelines and understandings being the
second.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8017-2
00:41:28.351 --> 00:41:32.455
<v Virin Vedder>We would encourage you to review those
guidelines and understandings because it</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8017-3
00:41:32.455 --> 00:41:36.712
<v Virin Vedder>will talk a lot more about some of these
specifics with regards to the in zone out</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8017-4
00:41:36.712 --> 00:41:37.533
<v Virin Vedder>of zone process.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8080-0
00:41:41.573 --> 00:41:44.146
<v Virin Vedder>What's the likelihood of moving off the
wait list?</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8080-1
00:41:44.146 --> 00:41:47.375
<v Virin Vedder>I will say every year we have movement
from the wait list. Now,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8080-2
00:41:47.375 --> 00:41:51.108
<v Virin Vedder>if you're 3rd or 4th on the wait list,
there's a good likelihood maybe of</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8080-3
00:41:51.108 --> 00:41:53.378
<v Virin Vedder>getting in.
If you're 28th on the wait list,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8080-4
00:41:53.378 --> 00:41:55.749
<v Virin Vedder>maybe not.
But when you get the results of the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8080-5
00:41:55.749 --> 00:41:58.171
<v Virin Vedder>lottery,
if you're a school that has a lottery,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8080-6
00:41:58.171 --> 00:42:00.693
<v Virin Vedder>there will be the listing of schools that
didn't.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8131-0
00:42:00.773 --> 00:42:03.846
<v Virin Vedder>Go to lottery and if the school didn't go
to lottery,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8131-1
00:42:03.846 --> 00:42:08.113
<v Virin Vedder>that is a real good opportunity to maybe
investigate to see if it's within</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8131-2
00:42:08.113 --> 00:42:12.665
<v Virin Vedder>commutable distance for you as a backup,
because you can only pick one when you</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8131-3
00:42:12.665 --> 00:42:15.168
<v Virin Vedder>make your determination on the
application.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8131-4
00:42:15.168 --> 00:42:19.208
<v Virin Vedder>But all of our schools follow the same
programming and the same model,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8131-5
00:42:19.208 --> 00:42:20.573
<v Virin Vedder>and the results are all.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8161-0
00:42:20.573 --> 00:42:24.846
<v Virin Vedder>All the same in terms of at the in the
destination we're trying to reach in</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8161-1
00:42:24.846 --> 00:42:28.275
<v Virin Vedder>terms of that bilingualism,
biliteracy and multiculturalism.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8161-2
00:42:28.275 --> 00:42:31.199
<v Virin Vedder>So you know,
you really have a great opportunity if</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8161-3
00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:35.584
<v Virin Vedder>you don't get into the school that you
were thinking and there's a nearby one</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8161-4
00:42:35.584 --> 00:42:36.933
<v Virin Vedder>that might work as well.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8208-0
00:42:39.133 --> 00:42:42.835
<v Virin Vedder>The application process will ask you all
these questions about do you have a</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8208-1
00:42:42.835 --> 00:42:45.671
<v Virin Vedder>sibling in the program? If so,
what is that siblings name,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8208-2
00:42:45.671 --> 00:42:48.892
<v Virin Vedder>their student ID number?
And then behind the scenes we go back and</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8208-3
00:42:48.892 --> 00:42:52.064
<v Virin Vedder>verify all that information.
So when you get into the application</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8208-4
00:42:52.064 --> 00:42:54.372
<v Virin Vedder>process,
you'll be walked through the all these</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8208-5
00:42:54.372 --> 00:42:55.333
<v Virin Vedder>different scenarios.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8222-0
00:42:55.853 --> 00:43:00.716
<v Virin Vedder>About siblings or if you're a DLI teacher
and some of the special cases I mentioned</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8222-1
00:43:00.716 --> 00:43:02.453
<v Virin Vedder>if you have twins or triplets.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8251-0
00:43:12.733 --> 00:43:19.055
<v Virin Vedder>Historical information regarding Mulberry.
Mulberry has not needed a lottery.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8251-1
00:43:19.055 --> 00:43:21.973
<v Virin Vedder>It has come close though, I believe.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8316-0
00:43:23.213 --> 00:43:26.360
<v Virin Vedder>To needing a lottery,
especially I think last year. Again,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8316-1
00:43:26.360 --> 00:43:29.773
<v Virin Vedder>every year is different.
I'm just kind of speaking historically</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8316-2
00:43:29.773 --> 00:43:34.200
<v Virin Vedder>from the 10 years I know I've been doing
this in what typically I have seen in the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8316-3
00:43:34.200 --> 00:43:37.773
<v Virin Vedder>way of lottery versus not.
Would a child already proficient in the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8316-4
00:43:37.773 --> 00:43:42.146
<v Virin Vedder>immersion language be bored? No. In fact,
it's a great way. I love this question.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8316-5
00:43:42.146 --> 00:43:42.893
<v Virin Vedder>A student who.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8366-0
00:43:42.973 --> 00:43:47.788
<v Virin Vedder>Already has proficiency in Spanish or in
French or Korean is a great candidate for</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8366-1
00:43:47.788 --> 00:43:52.371
<v Virin Vedder>this program because it's going to help
them grow still that language in their</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8366-2
00:43:52.371 --> 00:43:56.490
<v Virin Vedder>literacy that's probably not being,
you know, developed daily at home.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8366-3
00:43:56.490 --> 00:44:01.247
<v Virin Vedder>But it's also a way of letting that child
have a shining star for their peers who</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8366-4
00:44:01.247 --> 00:44:02.813
<v Virin Vedder>are learning that language.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8397-0
00:44:02.893 --> 00:44:07.975
<v Virin Vedder>And so our students who already have some
level of language proficiency thrive in</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8397-1
00:44:07.975 --> 00:44:11.817
<v Virin Vedder>DLI and really get to tap into their
cultural identities too,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8397-2
00:44:11.817 --> 00:44:16.093
<v Virin Vedder>by learning about other cultures that
maybe speak the same language.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8431-0
00:44:16.893 --> 00:44:22.254
<v Virin Vedder>Our dual immersion teachers that teach in
English more than likely are not fluent</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8431-1
00:44:22.254 --> 00:44:27.026
<v Virin Vedder>in the other language. Some may be,
but the majority of our English side</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8431-2
00:44:27.026 --> 00:44:31.013
<v Virin Vedder>teachers are English dominant only and
they are monolingual.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8471-0
00:44:32.093 --> 00:44:35.069
<v Virin Vedder>Our our French,
Korean and Spanish side teachers are</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8471-1
00:44:35.069 --> 00:44:39.560
<v Virin Vedder>bilingual. They they do know English.
We don't like your students to think that</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8471-2
00:44:39.560 --> 00:44:43.715
<v Virin Vedder>cause they're in an immersion setting
where they are only hearing French,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8471-3
00:44:43.715 --> 00:44:46.859
<v Virin Vedder>Korean and Spanish,
but they do know English and can of</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8471-4
00:44:46.859 --> 00:44:50.733
<v Virin Vedder>course communicate with you in in English
if that's your preference.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8513-0
00:44:50.813 --> 00:44:53.737
<v Virin Vedder>Yes,
if a child is presently enrolled in the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8513-1
00:44:53.737 --> 00:44:56.985
<v Virin Vedder>DLI program,
the rising kindergarten sibling will</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8513-2
00:44:56.985 --> 00:45:01.273
<v Virin Vedder>automatically be given entry,
even if there's a required lottery.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8513-3
00:45:01.273 --> 00:45:06.535
<v Virin Vedder>That's what a spot that's automatically
kind of taken off the the option and off</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8513-4
00:45:06.535 --> 00:45:09.848
<v Virin Vedder>the table,
but you must put in the application for</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8513-5
00:45:09.848 --> 00:45:10.173
<v Virin Vedder>that.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8515-0
00:45:10.573 --> 00:45:12.253
<v Virin Vedder>Kindergarten student.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8554-0
00:45:14.453 --> 00:45:18.893
<v Virin Vedder>What percentage of native to non-native
speakers are in the program?</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8554-1
00:45:18.893 --> 00:45:23.783
<v Virin Vedder>So there's no entrance screening test.
It depends on the the school and the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8554-2
00:45:23.783 --> 00:45:28.158
<v Virin Vedder>neighborhood of the school.
So I mentioned that one way and two way</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8554-3
00:45:28.158 --> 00:45:29.573
<v Virin Vedder>immersion programming.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8604-0
00:45:29.813 --> 00:45:33.287
<v Virin Vedder>In some of our schools,
about half of the students might already</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8604-1
00:45:33.287 --> 00:45:36.547
<v Virin Vedder>have language proficiency in Spanish or
Korean, for example.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8604-2
00:45:36.547 --> 00:45:40.074
<v Virin Vedder>Those are two examples.
Our Korean program is an example of a two</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8604-3
00:45:40.074 --> 00:45:43.387
<v Virin Vedder>way immersion program.
A lot of students in the program there</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8604-4
00:45:43.387 --> 00:45:46.594
<v Virin Vedder>are English dominant.
A lot of the students in that program</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8604-5
00:45:46.594 --> 00:45:49.693
<v Virin Vedder>have Korean proficiency,
so they're kind of helping each.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8642-0
00:45:49.773 --> 00:45:54.214
<v Virin Vedder>Each other go to the the new language.
We have several schools in our Spanish</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8642-1
00:45:54.214 --> 00:45:57.117
<v Virin Vedder>DLI portfolio that are kind of reflective
of that.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8642-2
00:45:57.117 --> 00:46:01.785
<v Virin Vedder>So it really kind of just depends on the
school and honestly the the demographics</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8642-3
00:46:01.785 --> 00:46:04.688
<v Virin Vedder>of that community that the school is
built around,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8642-4
00:46:04.688 --> 00:46:06.453
<v Virin Vedder>but no entrance test to get in.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8694-0
00:46:06.893 --> 00:46:11.554
<v Virin Vedder>Social implications of the program.
I mentioned actually mostly positive ones</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8694-1
00:46:11.554 --> 00:46:14.542
<v Virin Vedder>come from it.
Because your students are cohorted,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8694-2
00:46:14.542 --> 00:46:17.948
<v Virin Vedder>they develop a bond with each other that
is very unique.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8694-3
00:46:17.948 --> 00:46:22.729
<v Virin Vedder>They have to resolve conflict way more
than their peers who only see that group</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8694-4
00:46:22.729 --> 00:46:26.613
<v Virin Vedder>of students for one year and then
probably get different groups.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8742-0
00:46:26.813 --> 00:46:29.816
<v Virin Vedder>Of students in subsequent grades.
In the DLI cohorts,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8742-1
00:46:29.816 --> 00:46:34.154
<v Virin Vedder>our students really start out like total
strangers, like every kindergartner,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8742-2
00:46:34.154 --> 00:46:38.047
<v Virin Vedder>but when they get to 5th grade,
they're more like brother and sister.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8742-3
00:46:38.047 --> 00:46:41.272
<v Virin Vedder>They might fight one moment and then make
up in the next,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8742-4
00:46:41.272 --> 00:46:45.221
<v Virin Vedder>but they are maybe fighting in a
different language, which is a bonus,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8742-5
00:46:45.221 --> 00:46:46.333
<v Virin Vedder>and they're able to.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8780-0
00:46:46.373 --> 00:46:50.975
<v Virin Vedder>Do that because they've kind of had to
work together for such a long period of</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8780-1
00:46:50.975 --> 00:46:53.596
<v Virin Vedder>time.
The the research kind of tells us that</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8780-2
00:46:53.596 --> 00:46:58.198
<v Virin Vedder>that builds a level of grit and a level
of perseverance and also an ability to</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8780-3
00:46:58.198 --> 00:47:01.110
<v Virin Vedder>negotiate.
That isn't typically the case for many</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8780-4
00:47:01.110 --> 00:47:05.013
<v Virin Vedder>students because they don't have to
develop that kind of level of.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8784-0
00:47:05.133 --> 00:47:07.813
<v Virin Vedder>Of friendship with with someone.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8834-0
00:47:08.893 --> 00:47:12.312
<v Diana Galindo>And Dr. Vedder,
there's questions that are kind of</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8834-1
00:47:12.312 --> 00:47:16.937
<v Diana Galindo>related to the same topic that we wanted
to ask you. So for example,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8834-2
00:47:16.937 --> 00:47:20.892
<v Diana Galindo>if a student does not initially make it
into kindergarten,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8834-3
00:47:20.892 --> 00:47:26.053
<v Diana Galindo>are they able to join later on? And if so,
what does that process look like?</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8887-0
00:47:26.413 --> 00:47:29.459
<v Virin Vedder>If a student does not get in in
kindergarten,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8887-1
00:47:29.459 --> 00:47:34.293
<v Virin Vedder>the latest and they and they do not
already have language proficiency in</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8887-2
00:47:34.293 --> 00:47:38.862
<v Virin Vedder>French, Korean or Spanish.
It may be possible to be added as a first</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8887-3
00:47:38.862 --> 00:47:42.173
<v Virin Vedder>grader.
I say may because if there has not been a</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8887-4
00:47:42.173 --> 00:47:46.013
<v Virin Vedder>student who drops out of the cohort from
kindergarten to.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8938-0
00:47:46.013 --> 00:47:50.463
<v Virin Vedder>First grade. There isn't that option.
There's a finite number of spots in this</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8938-1
00:47:50.463 --> 00:47:54.124
<v Virin Vedder>program that's set each year,
and if there is not any attrition,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8938-2
00:47:54.124 --> 00:47:58.743
<v Virin Vedder>then a school can't entertain the idea.
If there has been some attrition and it's</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8938-3
00:47:58.743 --> 00:48:02.292
<v Virin Vedder>going into first grade,
a student can enter as a first grader.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8938-4
00:48:02.292 --> 00:48:05.333
<v Virin Vedder>Having not ever had it in kindergarten,
they will be.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8986-0
00:48:05.733 --> 00:48:09.724
<v Virin Vedder>Obviously behind in language development,
but they can catch up.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8986-1
00:48:09.724 --> 00:48:14.391
<v Virin Vedder>They can essentially still obtain that
language and content simultaneously.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8986-2
00:48:14.391 --> 00:48:19.304
<v Virin Vedder>But there's gonna be a lot of additional
support needed at home to kind of help</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8986-3
00:48:19.304 --> 00:48:24.093
<v Virin Vedder>build that bridge that was not have been
there because they didn't get in as.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/8988-0
00:48:24.173 --> 00:48:25.493
<v Virin Vedder>A kindergartner.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9031-0
00:48:27.533 --> 00:48:31.298
<v Diana Galindo>And Dr. Vedder,
there's also multiple questions related</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9031-1
00:48:31.298 --> 00:48:35.936
<v Diana Galindo>to the lottery system. So, for example,
once those spots are filled,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9031-2
00:48:35.936 --> 00:48:40.709
<v Diana Galindo>how does the lottery look like?
Is it based on the first people on the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9031-3
00:48:40.709 --> 00:48:45.213
<v Diana Galindo>lottery or those that applied before the
people on the lower half?</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9063-0
00:48:45.373 --> 00:48:49.709
<v Diana Galindo>Additionally, once those,
once the kindergarten application has</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9030-0
00:48:45.413 --> 00:48:46.773
<v Virin Vedder>Great question.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9063-1
00:48:49.709 --> 00:48:55.196
<v Diana Galindo>passed, are are those names still there?
Or if they don't make it to one school,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9063-2
00:48:55.196 --> 00:48:57.973
<v Diana Galindo>are they able to apply to another school?</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9112-0
00:48:58.413 --> 00:49:02.003
<v Virin Vedder>Great question.
So the answer is it's not first come,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9112-1
00:49:02.003 --> 00:49:05.660
<v Virin Vedder>first serve.
As long as you get that application in by</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9112-2
00:49:05.660 --> 00:49:08.718
<v Virin Vedder>May 8th at 3:00,
you're entered into the mix.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9112-3
00:49:08.718 --> 00:49:13.705
<v Virin Vedder>If we have to go to a lottery when you
submitted your application does not</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9112-4
00:49:13.705 --> 00:49:17.029
<v Virin Vedder>matter.
I will say that if you do submit multiple</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9112-5
00:49:17.029 --> 00:49:17.893
<v Virin Vedder>applications.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9173-0
00:49:18.533 --> 00:49:23.199
<v Virin Vedder>We are going to find that out on our end
when we do data verification and the most</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9173-1
00:49:23.199 --> 00:49:26.291
<v Virin Vedder>recently submitted application will be
the one we use.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9173-2
00:49:26.291 --> 00:49:30.788
<v Virin Vedder>So it's the I know you don't get to see
what this application system looks like</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9173-3
00:49:30.788 --> 00:49:33.936
<v Virin Vedder>cuz it's not live,
but it is fairly user friendly and I</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9173-4
00:49:33.936 --> 00:49:37.253
<v Virin Vedder>think it will be one that you will not
have a lot of pain.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9266-0
00:49:37.293 --> 00:49:40.959
<v Virin Vedder>Have a lot of pain in navigating,
but should you make a mistake,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9266-1
00:49:40.959 --> 00:49:45.358
<v Virin Vedder>you can go and resubmit a new one and
that new one will be what we look at in</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9266-2
00:49:45.358 --> 00:49:48.008
<v Virin Vedder>terms of the information you supply.
But yeah,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9266-3
00:49:48.008 --> 00:49:51.505
<v Virin Vedder>the lottery is not based on when you
submit your application,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9266-4
00:49:51.505 --> 00:49:54.212
<v Virin Vedder>it's based on the total number of
applications.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9266-5
00:49:54.212 --> 00:49:56.693
<v Virin Vedder>It's based on if we have to admit
students.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9318-0
00:49:56.973 --> 00:50:01.203
<v Virin Vedder>Automatically because they're siblings of
students currently enrolled in the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9318-1
00:50:01.203 --> 00:50:03.949
<v Virin Vedder>program,
or if they're children of a DLI teacher,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9318-2
00:50:03.949 --> 00:50:08.399
<v Virin Vedder>we have to go in and kind of take all of
those things out in the mix to find out</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9318-3
00:50:08.399 --> 00:50:12.354
<v Virin Vedder>how many available spots there are still
for new kindergarten students.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9318-4
00:50:12.354 --> 00:50:16.693
<v Virin Vedder>And then from there we either have a
lottery or we don't. You will be getting.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9362-0
00:50:16.893 --> 00:50:21.250
<v Virin Vedder>Notification via the e-mail you provide
in the application along the way at every</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9362-1
00:50:21.250 --> 00:50:25.128
<v Virin Vedder>step to know like what the status is for
your child. And as I mentioned,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9362-2
00:50:25.128 --> 00:50:29.219
<v Virin Vedder>if we go to lottery and you don't get in,
then you will be given the list of</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9362-3
00:50:29.219 --> 00:50:33.204
<v Virin Vedder>schools where there wasn't a lottery
needed and then you can contact those</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9362-4
00:50:33.204 --> 00:50:34.373
<v Virin Vedder>schools to get a spot.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9420-0
00:50:34.653 --> 00:50:39.142
<v Virin Vedder>If if you know that's your desire,
do you have to register for kindergarten</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9420-1
00:50:39.142 --> 00:50:42.627
<v Virin Vedder>first or do the application for DLI first?
Great question.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9420-2
00:50:42.627 --> 00:50:46.821
<v Virin Vedder>They open at the exact same time.
You can complete the DLI application</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9420-3
00:50:46.821 --> 00:50:50.719
<v Virin Vedder>first if you'd like the the online
registration for kindergarten.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9420-4
00:50:50.719 --> 00:50:53.613
<v Virin Vedder>Remember you're going to do at your home
school.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9484-0
00:50:53.613 --> 00:50:56.776
<v Virin Vedder>It's online,
but you will have to actually produce</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9484-1
00:50:56.776 --> 00:51:01.552
<v Virin Vedder>some documents to your home school that
you provide kind of like the initial</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9484-2
00:51:01.552 --> 00:51:05.025
<v Virin Vedder>parts for online,
but you'll actually go into your home</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9484-3
00:51:05.025 --> 00:51:07.878
<v Virin Vedder>school to provide some information
basically,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9484-4
00:51:07.878 --> 00:51:12.653
<v Virin Vedder>and that can be done before you do the
DLI application or it can be done in.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9502-0
00:51:13.213 --> 00:51:16.573
<v Virin Vedder>With it,
the key is that the online registration</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9502-1
00:51:16.573 --> 00:51:19.659
<v Virin Vedder>for kindergarten will extend beyond May
8th.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9502-2
00:51:19.659 --> 00:51:23.773
<v Virin Vedder>The application for DLI is a firm close
at 3:00 on May 8th.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9563-0
00:51:31.293 --> 00:51:33.879
<v Virin Vedder>Gene Ray,
the current student in DLI and the</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9563-1
00:51:33.879 --> 00:51:37.958
<v Virin Vedder>difference between natives and not
natives opportunities for different</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9563-2
00:51:37.958 --> 00:51:41.119
<v Virin Vedder>levels of experience or expertise to
intermingle. Yes,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9563-3
00:51:41.119 --> 00:51:45.256
<v Virin Vedder>we are working on things and also
extracurricular opportunities through</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9563-4
00:51:45.256 --> 00:51:48.933
<v Virin Vedder>things like the Public Library to help
provide extracurricular.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9617-0
00:51:49.053 --> 00:51:52.133
<v Virin Vedder>Opportunities for students to practice
with the language.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9617-1
00:51:52.133 --> 00:51:56.328
<v Virin Vedder>If your child doesn't already have a
strong fluency in the immersion language,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9617-2
00:51:56.328 --> 00:52:00.470
<v Virin Vedder>I go back to that statement of please
just continue encouraging your child to</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9617-3
00:52:00.470 --> 00:52:04.825
<v Virin Vedder>persevere and to continue in the language.
The longer they stay in this language,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9617-4
00:52:04.825 --> 00:52:07.533
<v Virin Vedder>the the better their skills are going to
be in it.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9628-0
00:52:07.693 --> 00:52:13.173
<v Virin Vedder>So kind of time is what's really needed
to grow in that language skill.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9687-0
00:52:15.053 --> 00:52:18.827
<v Virin Vedder>How do I apply my first grader?
If they've already been in a DLI program</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9687-1
00:52:18.827 --> 00:52:22.343
<v Virin Vedder>somewhere else, that would be.
You would want to contact the school</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9687-2
00:52:22.343 --> 00:52:25.083
<v Virin Vedder>directly.
That is a DLI school you're interested in.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9687-3
00:52:25.083 --> 00:52:28.237
<v Virin Vedder>They will be able to advise if there's a
spot in the cohort,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9687-4
00:52:28.237 --> 00:52:32.373
<v Virin Vedder>and then we do have a process by which we
can screen students to see what their</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9687-5
00:52:32.373 --> 00:52:34.493
<v Virin Vedder>language skills are and if they would be.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9695-0
00:52:34.573 --> 00:52:37.127
<v Virin Vedder>You know,
suitable for coming in late later into</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9695-1
00:52:37.127 --> 00:52:39.733
<v Virin Vedder>the program,
and we do have students who do that.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9757-0
00:52:50.813 --> 00:52:54.363
<v Virin Vedder>Resources for parents. Yes,
you don't have to know the language, OK?</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9757-1
00:52:54.363 --> 00:52:58.427
<v Virin Vedder>Your child's teacher is going to give you
information that you will be able to</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9757-2
00:52:58.427 --> 00:53:00.639
<v Virin Vedder>digest.
Now we are hoping that you will be</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9757-3
00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:04.549
<v Virin Vedder>learning this language because your
child's going to be coming home excited</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9757-4
00:53:04.549 --> 00:53:08.561
<v Virin Vedder>to kind of share some of the things
happening, obviously in in the classroom,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9757-5
00:53:08.561 --> 00:53:10.413
<v Virin Vedder>but you don't have to have language.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9799-0
00:53:10.413 --> 00:53:13.012
<v Virin Vedder>Expertise to to support your child in
this program.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9799-1
00:53:13.012 --> 00:53:16.560
<v Virin Vedder>That's an excellent question.
If you're not zoned for a DLI school and</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9799-2
00:53:16.560 --> 00:53:19.209
<v Virin Vedder>you get in,
the question about a permissive transfer</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9799-3
00:53:19.209 --> 00:53:22.257
<v Virin Vedder>was brought up. Yes,
you will have to apply for a permissive</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9799-4
00:53:22.257 --> 00:53:26.405
<v Virin Vedder>transfer and the the e-mail notification
that you'll get regarding your DLI status</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9799-5
00:53:26.405 --> 00:53:30.053
<v Virin Vedder>will walk you through all the steps that
you'll have to take to do that.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9818-0
00:53:41.453 --> 00:53:44.622
<v Virin Vedder>Miss Moon, for your two children,
you would apply for the child that will</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9818-1
00:53:44.622 --> 00:53:45.693
<v Virin Vedder>be entering kindergarten.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9851-0
00:53:52.533 --> 00:53:57.326
<v Diana Galindo>Doctor Vedder,
I've seen quite a few messages regarding</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9851-1
00:53:57.326 --> 00:54:03.915
<v Diana Galindo>students who enroll a bit later past
kindergarten and what are their chances</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9851-2
00:54:03.915 --> 00:54:07.253
<v Diana Galindo>of becoming accepted into the programs.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9899-0
00:54:08.133 --> 00:54:12.902
<v Virin Vedder>But child knows has language proficiency
in French, Korean or Spanish,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9899-1
00:54:12.902 --> 00:54:16.328
<v Virin Vedder>and we're talking 3rd grade, 4th grade,
5th grade.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9899-2
00:54:16.328 --> 00:54:21.499
<v Virin Vedder>It's absolutely possible to enter into
the program if there's a spot in that</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9899-3
00:54:21.499 --> 00:54:24.455
<v Virin Vedder>cohort.
So the first thing then would be to</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9899-4
00:54:24.455 --> 00:54:27.813
<v Virin Vedder>contact the DLI school you're interested
in. Ask.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9933-0
00:54:28.093 --> 00:54:32.417
<v Virin Vedder>If there are spots in whatever grade
cohort you you know is relevant for your</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9933-1
00:54:32.417 --> 00:54:35.188
<v Virin Vedder>situation,
and then ask what the process might be</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9933-2
00:54:35.188 --> 00:54:38.237
<v Virin Vedder>for your child to be considered for
admission into it.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9933-3
00:54:38.237 --> 00:54:42.782
<v Virin Vedder>There will be a language screening that
will take place and the school could help</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9933-4
00:54:42.782 --> 00:54:43.613
<v Virin Vedder>you coordinate.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9935-0
00:54:43.773 --> 00:54:45.533
<v Virin Vedder>The logistics of that.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9989-0
00:54:48.813 --> 00:54:52.924
<v Diana Galindo>And Doctor Vedder,
I think it is now time just to be</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9989-1
00:54:52.924 --> 00:54:56.570
<v Diana Galindo>respectful of of everybody's evening.
However,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9989-2
00:54:56.570 --> 00:55:00.061
<v Diana Galindo>if any individuals still have any
questions,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/9989-3
00:55:00.061 --> 00:55:05.413
<v Diana Galindo>I will be dropping my e-mail in the chat
as well as Doctor Vedder's.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/10001-0
00:55:06.573 --> 00:55:10.297
<v Diana Galindo>So if you still have any pertinent
questions that you would like answered,</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/10001-1
00:55:10.297 --> 00:55:13.573
<v Diana Galindo>feel free to send us an e-mail and we're
happy to respond to you.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/10049-0
00:55:17.293 --> 00:55:21.867
<v Virin Vedder>Thank you once again for considering this
option for your child or children.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/10049-1
00:55:21.867 --> 00:55:25.490
<v Virin Vedder>We certainly appreciate your interest and
your time tonight.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/10049-2
00:55:25.490 --> 00:55:30.361
<v Virin Vedder>Wishing you a wonderful journey wherever
it may be. And again, thank you so much.</v>

8680d073-d973-452c-be62-d62c35e4c84f/10049-3
00:55:30.361 --> 00:55:31.133
<v Virin Vedder>Good evening.</v>