MISSION

To empower students with 21^st century skills as they develop linguistic proficiency and cultural literacy in multiple languages.

VISION

To prepare students to actively and effectively participate and succeed in a global society.

SAISD WORLD LANGUAGES COURSE OPTIONS

• American Sign Language
• Chinese
• French
• German
• Japanese
• Latin
• Spanish

GOALS

• Offer a sequence of courses from level 1 to level 5+ in order to qualify students for highly tiered universities and make them more marketable for college admissions, military careers and the workforce
• Strengthen the proficiency and communicative model to develop student's proficiency in the target language via meaningful interaction and authentic contexts
• Refine and redesign the curriculum and instruction for languages other than English and Spanish (LOTES)
• Create curriculum for languages for a specific course for health and law careers
• Increase AP Spanish course participation by 20% and performance by 5%