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La Serna, Jillian J. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
This paper draws from a broader research project and reports on a qualitative case study that investigated instructional practices in grades 3-5 Two-Way Immersion (TWI) classrooms where the partner language is Spanish. Using Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP) as the theoretical framework, the purpose of this study was to examine the degree to…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Immersion Programs, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Doyle, Daniela; Kim, Juli; Hernandez-Cruz, Ismael – Public Impact, 2019
This is the third and last paper in a series published by the National Alliance in partnership with Public Impact, highlighting the experiences of school leaders in charter schools across the country. While the impact school leaders have on student performance has been well documented, there has been little attention to how leaders' experiences…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Administration, Minority Groups, African Americans
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Redmond, Mary Lynn; Wiethaus, Ulrike – Learning Languages, 2009
The Atse Kituwah Academy (New Kituwah Academy) houses the new Cherokee immersion school in Cherokee, North Carolina. Cherokee is located on the Qualla Boundary in the mountains of the western part of the state, the contemporary homeland of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI). In 2005, a comprehensive study of the health of the Cherokee…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Immersion Programs, Second Language Instruction, Program Effectiveness
Terry, Robert M., Ed. – 1992
Papers from the 1991 joint Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT)/ Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC) conference are presented. Because the state of North Carolina is in the forefront of state-mandated foreign language education in the elementary schools (FLES), 4 of the 10 articles in this volume address FLES…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Culture, Basic Writing, Competency Based Education