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Opening ceremony for SAISD-Mexican Consulate collaboration to launch educational initiative for parents
05/07/2021
May 7, 2021 

What: Opening ceremony for SAISD-Mexican Consulate collaboration to launch educational initiative for parents

Who: Olivia Almanza-Pena, Principal of Irving Dual Language Academy

When: May 10 (Mon) – 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Where: Irving Dual Language Academy, 1300 Delgado St., 78207

Adult education enhances parents’ support of their children’s learning in school. It also improves parents’ marketability in the workforce. These are two beliefs that are at the foundation of a new collaboration between San Antonio ISD and the Mexican Consulate, involving the District’s Dual Language, ESL and Migrant Department and its Adult and Community Education Department. 

The result is an offering of Spanish literacy classes for Spanish speakers through the Plazas Comunitaras program. The courses are free, and participants do not have to have a child in SAISD to participate.

“The Plazas Comunitarias are part of our department's effort to ensure our schools serve as community learning centers and feel like an extension of the home for our bilingual families," said Esmeralda Alday executive director of SAISD’s Dual Language, ESL and Migrant Department. 
 
The Plazas Comunitaras program promotes education to Spanish-speaking people living in the United States and is sponsored by the Mexican government. Participants ages 15 and older take literacy classes in Spanish, and those who complete primary and secondary levels of the program receive the certificate of studies from the Secretary of Public Education of the Government of Mexico, valid in Mexico and the United States. The first Plaza Comunitaria was established in 2001, and today, more than 21,777 students have benefited from the program across the nation. 
 
SAISD is providing classroom space for the program at both Irving Dual Language Academy, 1300 Delgado St., and Dorie Miller Elementary School, 207 Lincolnshire Drive. Plazas Comunitaras will begin at Irving on May 10, 2021, and at Dorie Miller on May 12, 2021. Classes are self-paced and will continue into the summer. Both morning and evening options are offered.  
 
Interested individuals can contact SAISD’s International Welcome Center at (210) 554-2592; SAISD’s Dual Language, ESL and Migrant Department at (210) 554-2590; or SAISD’s Adult and Community Education Department at (210) 554-2450. 

The new program adds to the growing list of offerings though SAISD’s Adult & Community Education Department. Other free courses include ESL, GED in Spanish or English, U.S. Citizenship, Financial Literacy, Digital Literacy and more than 40 certification classes. Course registration is available online at www.saisd.net/ace
 

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