“The mission of the St. Vrain Valley School District English

as the second language program is to meet the needs of

limited-English proficient students in understanding, speaking

reading and writing the English Language. While students

are in the ESL program, they will continue to develop proficiency

in challenging academic subject matter, and will become

integrated in the school and the wider community as they

work towards completion of their education”

Students need skillful and knowledgeable teachers to open for them the door to diversity beyond which is found a rich and complex global people bonded by similar experiences, feelings, fears and love. As teachers or me as a teacher who works with second language students, we must know the importance of bilingual and ESL education. Unfortunately, many people in our same career and of course, those not involved with education don’t realize why having these programs is so crucial and important. After doing some research on the subject the results surprised me. As of the year 2000-2001, Spanish speaking students ranked as the biggest minority in the United States representing 79% of Limited English Proficienc

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