Heritage Language Academy: a model for Culturally Relevant

Pedagogy

Donna Lee Loflin ELementaryAsheboro City Schools

Por la ignorancia se desciende a la servidumbre, por la educación se

asciende a la libertad.

Through ignorance one goes down to servitude, through education one ascends

to freedom.

Diego Luís Córdoba (1907-1964) Abogado y político colombiano.

History

• Joint collaboration Between UNCG’s TESOL for ALL program and ACS

• Second year of the HLA @ Donna Lee Loflin• Eight Saturdays from 9.30 to 11.30am• Parent Tech Academy component added this year• Child Care provided this year

Mission of the Heritage Language Academy

The HLA’s goal is to provide students with a deeper understanding of the transferability Hypothesis: How improving academic vocabulary in the native language ( Spanish) can have a positive effect in accessing academic English and vise-versa.

Missions of the Heritage Language Academy

To provide HLA parents with the computer skills/ tools that would increase parent communication with school and enhance greater student/parent communication through online educational tools.

Principal Candace Call has been a key supporter in the

development of the Heritage Language

Academy, along with District Superintendent Dr. Dianne Frost and Assistant

Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction,

Dr. Dot Harper.

Dubraska Stines (ESL teacher), Heather Carr (5th grade teacher )and Josie Roman (Instructional Assistant ) were the master minds behind all the success in the program. They had a Philosophy of “ Less is more”

Where the emphasis was on in depth of understanding of carefully selected essential and transferable skills

for both parents and students.

Mrs. Carr, using Smartboard lessons to engage students in learning non-fiction elements

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Daisy ‘drags’ the key word

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Mrs. Stines, uses Youtube videos and interactive reading materials to engage students in transferring

elements of non-fiction in Spanish

Can we identify persuasion?

Mrs. Roman is guiding parents on how to open an email account and how to effectively search

information on the Web using Google

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Researching topics on third grade Science

Opening an email account

With the assistance of High School and 5th grade volunteers, preschool children were able

to have quality phisical activity while parents and older siblings were in class

The HLA successfully concluded with a ‘comelona’ (pot luck) and a diploma

presentation

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Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the

great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the

social machinery.

Horace Mann