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Clover Park updates bilingual instruction, launches new dual‑language classrooms and heritage courses
Summary
District teaching-and-learning staff reported on the Transitional Bilingual Instructional Program (TBIP), newcomer supports and new dual‑language immersion and heritage‑language courses funded partly by DoDEA grants; board members asked about program continuity if federal funding changes.
Superintendent Banner and Director Susie Contos updated the Clover Park School District Board of Directors on the district’s Transitional Bilingual Instructional Program (TBIP), newcomer programming and the rollout of new dual‑language and heritage‑language courses funded in part by DoDEA grants.
Contos said multilingual learners (MLs) are students whose primary language at home is not English and that the district identifies students for services via the state’s home language survey and the WIDA English language proficiency placement test. “Students who do not meet the English proficiency threshold qualify for support through TBIP,” Contos said, adding that students continue to receive services until they demonstrate proficiency and then are monitored for two years after exiting the program. Contos said the district provided 120 to 150 minutes per week of dedicated language support for each student who qualifies for MLL services.
Contos told the board that in school…
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