The question was relatively simple, but the responses were powerful, inspiring, organic, real, and from the heart. Welcome to Edgewood School - and as one staff member coined it - “The Little School with a HUGE Heart.”
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¡Hola a todos! Younger students in immersion programs naturally begin to play with, manipulate, and repeat words and phrases in the target language. This is one of the many reasons it is easier for younger children to pick up languages than adults. Younger students think and believe their teacher only speaks Spanish, and “this is simply what school is like.” However, it is common, as immersion students enter upper elementary grades, their cognitive abilities begin to surpass their levels of language proficiency. To be quite frank, it requires more work and energy to think and speak in a second language!
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Richie KucinskiPublic education is an extremely complex system. When unpacked, powerful and unique possibilities for our students to influence and change society are discovered. Join me in my learning journey to better understand, frame, and clearly articulate the systems of modern day public education. Archives
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