Our mission is to enhance and accelerate students' language acquisition to ensure bilingualism and biliteracy. We will maximize students' cognitive and affective development through culturally responsive teaching. As a result, our emergent bilinguals will acquire essential skills for lifelong learning, ensuring they become productive, responsible global citizens.
Main Contact
Erika Del Rio M.ED
District Bilingual/ESL/LOTE Coordinator
936-890-1488 edelrio@willisisd.org
Dual language immersion/One-way is a bilingual/biliteracy program model in which students identified as English learners are served in both English and another language and are prepared to meet reclassification criteria in order to be successful in English-only instruction not earlier than six or later than seven years after the student enrolls in school. Instruction provided in a language other than English in this program model is delivered by a teacher appropriately certified in bilingual education under TEC, §29.061. Instruction provided in English in this program model may be delivered either by a teacher appropriately certified in bilingual education or by a different teacher certified in ESL in accordance with TEC, §29.061. The goal of one-way dual language immersion is for program participants to attain full proficiency in another language as well as English.
This model provides ongoing instruction in literacy and academic content in the students' primary language as well as English, with at least half of the instruction delivered in the students' primary language for the duration of the program.
An ESL/pull-out program model is an English acquisition program that serves students identified as English learners through English instruction provided by an appropriately certified ESL teacher under the TEC, §29.061(c), through English language arts and reading. The goal of ESL pull-out is for English learners to attain full proficiency in English in order to participate equitable in school. This model targets English language development through academic content instruction that is linguistically and culturally responsive in English language arts and reading. Instruction shall be provided by ESL teacher in a pull-out or inclusionary delivery model.
The WISD Bilingual Instructional Coach will provide in-class support to bilingual teachers at Roark Early Education Center, CC Hardy Elementary, and Cannan Elementary.
After School Professional Development
Teachers will receive 1.5 hours of Professional Development for each session.
