What kind of Dual Language Program is your emergent bilingual in?

Dual Language Immersion Program Models:

1. Dual Language Immersion One Way. Emergent bilinguals served in English are prepared to be successful in English-only instruction.

2. Dual Language Immersion Two Way. Emergent bilinguals served in English are integrated with students proficient in English to prepare to be successful in English-only instruction.

Transitional Bilangual Program Models:

Transitional Early Exit. Emergent bilinguals served in English are prepared to be successful in English-only instructions not earlier than two or later than five years after the student enrolls in school.

Transitional Late Exit. Emergent bilinguals served in English are prepared for English-only instruction not earlier than six or later than seven years after the student enrolls in school.

English as a Second Language Program Models:

ESL Content Based. Emergent bilinguals are given instruction in English for each core subject by a teacher appropriately certified in ESL.

ESL Pull Out. Emergent bilinguals are provided instruction in English through language arts and reading by an appropriately certified ESL teacher.

For more information on Texas's bilangual programs use this link.

Future Ready: As we continue to design pathways to ensure our students are future ready, Howell Public Schools is excited to launch a dual language immersion program. Beginning in kindergarten, students will be immersed in an environment of biliteracy and cross-cultural awareness. Over time, this environment will build their fluency in a second language as well as their awareness and appreciation of various cultures around the world alongside their native speaking peers. Imagine your child finishing elementary school and being fluent in another language and more aware of the world around them…future ready.

Gretchen: I think the best-known example of do you do the source language versus the target language in terms of plural in English is a certain little creature with eight legs. Lauren: The octopus. Gretchen: The octopus. Lauren: Which I just avoid talking about in the plural at all to save myself a grammatical crisis. Gretchen: I admit that I have also done this. If you were gonna pluralise “octopus” as if it’s English, it would just be “octopuses.” It’s very easy. But there’s a fairly long-standing tradition in English of when a word is borrowed from Latin to make the plural the actual Latin thing. Because, historically, many English speakers did learn Latin, and so you want to show off your education by using the Latin form even though it’s in English. So, if you’re going to pretend that “octopus” is Latin, then you wanna say, “octopi.” However, there is yet a third complication, which is that “octopus,” in fact, is actually Greek – “octo” meaning “eight” and “pus” meaning “feet. So, Greek does not make these plural by adding I to it. In that case, there has recently become popular a yet even more obscure and yet even more pretentious, to be honest, plural. Lauren: Is there where you say, “octopodes”? Gretchen: Well, this is where I used to say, “octopodes.” But I have recently learned that, apparently, it is, for maximum pretentiousness, /aktaˈpodiz/. Lauren: You’ve out-pretentioused my out-pretentiousness.

Excerpt from Lingthusiasm episode ‘Many ways to talk about many things - Plurals, duals and more’

Listen to the episode, read the full transcript, or check out more links about morphology, syntax, and words. 

Consider-Simon Blackquill, after being in prison for seven years is woefully, woefully touch-starved. He yearns to be held, to get a hug, to feel any form of affection.

Consider also-Hes so full of anger, self-hatred, and resignation that he denies himself any chance of such a thing.

Consider-even more then that, he's scared. He's been beat up, electrocuted, chained, pushed around for so long that....he won't risk it. Someone reaching out can only hurt him. (Also emotional weakness but whatever)

Consider, Fulbright would sometimes offer positive touch, not even aware of it. Helping steady Simon when he's about to fall, helping him in and out of the squad car, little things. Things that slowly build trust.

Consider-the Phantom is aware. He uses it to play with Simons emotions. Simon is already in a bad state, and does not handle it well, raising all his walls back up.

Now consider, finally, finally getting a hug, his little sister/niece holding him while they both cry their eyes out. Patches' enthusiastic greeting involving a huge hug. Clasping hands with an old friend, the warmth from a bowl of udon noodles made with love.

Just....no sudden reaching for him, and maybe....

Just maybe..

He can heal.

for all the None people who follow me and care about Trace Memory/Another Code (spoiler free I promise): if you're interested in the remaster, I recommend you only get it if you're getting it for the sequel that was never released in America. they changed a lot in Trace Memory (Another Code 1) and this isn't a "new is bad" thing (usually I prefer remasters), this is a "they cut puzzles, 'streamlined' the game, and reworked/removed the best scene in the entire game" kind of thing. the game undoubtedly looks better, but it's also missing some of the hand-drawn art that really added to its story. there are some improvements (the new voice acting is cool to have, especially having it be optional, and the way they implemented the autoplay feature for that is clever. there are some improved scenes they could rework with the benefit of 3D graphics and voice acting), but I don't think it should be your first Trace Memory experience.

if you can't get your hands on the DS line and an emulator isn't working for the puzzles (something I can see - some of them did actually need to be cut just for being janky or more difficult than they needed to be) and this is the only way you can ever experience the first game, I recommend it over not playing the game, I'm just saying it's not the original. from what I can tell they normed the style of the first game with the second, so it's brighter and all the dialogue and non-flashback cutscenes are rendered in game, which loses some of the impact of the stylistic comic panels. I never thought I'd prefer flat art to rendered cut scenes but in a game like this the hand-drawn, kinda gritty art did a LOT and the brightly-rendered 3D models just don't lend themselves to the mystery of all these people's deaths. I am excited to play the second game since, changes or not, this is the only way to experience it in America (like I said, I still recommend Another Code: Recollection if it's the only way you can experience Trace Memory), but I would say the remaster is mostly worth buying for the sequel if you like the original game.

just had the thought "after i exhaust the french fiction, poetry, and textbooks i own, i could read the french dictionary cover to cover" and got, like, GENUINELY excited about it.

Hello~! I love your writing style! I wanted to send you a request from your post with the settings prompt list. <3

Can I request 30: the base of a large waterfall featuring Sebek? Maybe he's on his way to go fishing and he starts thinking about family stuff?

setting prompts ! | (30. at the base of a large waterfall)

briar valley is known for its mountains, fangs that stretch and yawn as they pierce the soft underbelly of the sky. it's an unforgiving terrain, equally suited for an unforgiving people— change is not welcome here in a land where the winters are harsh and the memories that haunt the frozen shadows harsher still. and yet, there are some that persist: the salmon, for one—

you can see them from where you sit at the base of a frigid waterfall, leaping, graceful forms that duck and weave through the crystal-clear water with single-minded determination as they swim against the current, against the natural order of things

— and your parents, too.

you are old enough now that when the adults around you whisper quietly, you listen, your keen fae ears pricked to the tune of their thorny, poisonous words. you are old enough to understand that your mother chose a difficult life for herself— one of inevitable struggles and pain from both outside and in. you are old enough to understand that your mother will be cursed to see hundreds of sunrises without your father, your siblings, or even yourself by her side.

you are not old enough to understand that she accepts this as a blessing.

you wonder if she thought like the salmon do, of what must lie beyond the top of the waterfall— was she too driven by the promise of the unknown, of something better than the relentless crush of an insular environment that threatened to choke and freeze the life out of any vibrant thing that dared to stand in its path?

you wonder if she found it.

you wonder if you will ever be as strong as her; you are frightened that the water might drown you first. you can already feel its numb grip deep in your heart and in your bones, and you wonder how much of you is already at the bottom of the waterfall, claimed forever by the valley.

the salmon reach the top of the mountain, and you return home empty-handed, belly aching with a hunger that will not be satisfied.

(you are not yet a salmon; but one day—

"if you do not call the strength that you have lilia's love, then what else do you call it! do not make fun of our mentor again, silver!"

— you will be.)

Chuang Tzu, section 17, Autumn Floods

Borges, trans. Stephen Kessler (Spanish under the cut)

I wanna thank you for your post about being nice to customer service people as someone who works in a customer service call/text center 🫡 people who say please and thank you to us are so rare! I was so shocked, I thought Americans just didn’t use please and thank you as a cultural thing or something, it really breaks our morale when people are rude for no reason 😣 not only that but also being xenophobic and generally mean. We’re already being exploited by the companies lol we don’t need more mistreatment. Thank you and everyone who is kind ❤️

It is not a cultural thing in the SLIGHTEST to not say please/thank you. You are experiencing inexcusable rudeness and you shouldn't be expected to "get used to it"!

Almost ALL of my IT assistance comes from India and I've worked in tandem with Indian medical coders several times over the years. It's insane to think even my colleagues were griping and moaning about working with ""offshore employees" " 🙄 in my personal and professional life, these employees have been incredibly helpful and kind to me and it's just basic decency to thank them!

Just today I had to call our offshore IT for some convoluted/botched IT update, and it took 5 minutes of polite conversation + trouble shooting to correct everything. IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN ME WEEKS ON MY OWN!! I don't understand how people are so shitty to people that actively fix their most frustrating problems. Like it's already insane to be so rude to strangers, but strangers that are bending over backwards to fix YOUR annoying problem? Go to jail 10,000 years.

I hope you have polite and courteous customers this week, anon! You deserve conversations that make you smile.

entering my german literature era

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i did it… i finally finished the english->arabic course

only took me three years give or take 😅

Y'all, reading the Three Musketeers for the first time is WILD

d'Artagnan Sr really said, here's a jalopy, $300 bucks, and fight anyone who gives you side eye

This whole time I thought bby d'Artagnan was just a dumbass teen - no he was a dumbass teen given *explicit* instructions

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku, Iida Tenya/Uraraka Ochako, Toga Himiko/Uraraka Ochako, Ashido Mina/Kirishima Eijirou, Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto, Sero Hanta/Todoroki Shouto, Ashido Mina & Bakugou Katsuki & Kaminari Denki & Kirishima Eijirou & Sero Hanta Characters: Bakugou Katsuki, Bakugou Mitsuki, Bakugou Masaru, Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Inko, Midoriya Izuku's Family, Uraraka Ochako, Ashido Mina, Kirishima Eijirou, Kaminari Denki, Shinsou Hitoshi, Shinsou Hitoshi's Brother, Shinsou Hitoshi's Family, Iida Tenya, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead Additional Tags: Spy Midoriya Izuku, Spy Bakugou Katsuki, Alternate Universe - Spies & Secret Agents, Genius Midoriya Izuku, Genius Bakugou Katsuki, Bakugou Katsuki is Bad at Feelings, Developing Friendships, Bakugou Katsuki Swears A Lot, Dramedy, Aged-Up Character(s), Spy Uraraka Ochako, Slow To Update, Kirishima Eijirou is a Good Friend, Ashido Mina is a Good Friend, Everyone Needs A Hug, Sick Character, Tags Contain Spoilers, Suspected Traitor Midoriya Izuku, Dysfunctional Family, Good Parent Bakugou Mitsuki, Midoriya Inko's Bad Parenting, Adopted Shinsou Hitoshi, There are a lot of explosions, BAMF Midoriya Izuku, BAMF Bakugou Katsuki, Midoriya Izuku is a Ray of Sunshine, Midoriya Izuku-centric, Bakugou Katsuki-centric Series: Part 2 of Daydreaming: Izu-verse and the Izu variants Summary:

Dynamight is the greatest spy of his generation; graduated early from the academy with a stellar record, acing every subject and going to field training at just fourteen years old.

He is the golden spy.

And now he's stuck with that annoying newbie.

But he can get used to it. _______________________________________________________

After being scolded and threatened by his bosses, Agent A2 Dynamight has his career in the hands of a rookie he has to train. He works better alone, he's better by himself, can't people get that? Being a spy means you can't trust anyone. Even if they have the trophy of most trustworthy face.

or

Bakugou and Midoriya are spies and are forced to work together. There are bad jokes, sexual tension and a lot of explosions.