Roseville Area Schools outlines multilingual services and marks first DLSI capstone cohort

Multilingual program staff for Roseville Area Schools presented an overview of the district's English language development and Dual Language Spanish Immersion (DLSI) work at the April 8 school board meeting, reporting that the district currently provides ELD services to roughly 1,351 students who speak 92 different languages.

The presentation, led by Multilingual Program Administrator Lully Flores Hanson, described the district's layered approach to serving multilingual learners, the growth in newcomer students at the middle and high school levels, and a first graduating capstone cohort from the district's DLSI pathway.

Flores Hanson said the district's top languages are Spanish, Hmong, Karen, Somali and Nepali and described a team that includes cultural liaisons representing seven communities. "We have a team of amazing cultural liaisons ... day in and day out, working with the different students and different families, advocating for them," Flores Hanson said.

District staff described three…