Give your child the GIFT of two languages!
Vision
Empowering and inspiring our multilingual community to be the change by embracing bilingualism and biculturalism, promoting high levels of academic achievement and celebrating social, cultural and linguistic diversity.
Mission
Our students, educators, families and community work together to ensure educational equity for language learners by providing culturally responsive instruction designed to meet the cognitive, linguistic, and affective needs of all learners. Through these collective efforts, we will cultivate productive and responsible citizens prepared to lead in a culturally diverse world.
Two-Way Dual Language Program
Dual language education is a bilingual/biliteracy program model in which students identified as English learners are integrated with students proficient in English and are served in both English and another language and are prepared to meet reclassification criteria and academic achievement in both languages.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Program
It serves students identified as Limited English Proficiency in a regular monolingual classroom, with instruction in English only, by providing support from a certified ESL teacher. This program integrates English as a Second Language instruction with subject matter instruction (mathematics, science, social studies, etc.). Students learn subject matter content through specific strategies for second language learners. Exiting the program will occur between two to five years of enrollment.
We need more ESL certified Teachers! Interested in obtaining an ESL certification? Visit the TEA ESL Certification Training site!
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Non-Discrimination Act
In accordance with Title VI, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX, Education Amendment of 1972, Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1992, the Harlandale Independent School District does not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, religion, military status, color, national origin, age, sex, disability or any other basis prohibited by law.