[EDLING:393] Dual-language school lauded as national model

[Francis M. Hult]

Dual-language school lauded as national model

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By Sanjay Bhatt
Seattle Times staff reporter

When Principal Karen Kodama enters a kindergarten classroom in Seattle's John
Stanford International School, the students pause from learning numerals,
greet her in Japanese and enthusiastically bow to her as a "sensei," or
teacher.
And on Friday, the school's newest kids on the block — Bantu refugees from
Somalia — joyfully sang a poem in their native Maay tongue. They weren't in
harmony, but they were a hit.

The Latona neighborhood school, now in its fifth year, requires students to
learn math and science in Spanish or Japanese as well as study reading,
writing and social studies in English — an approach called "dual-language
immersion."

Today the public school is being recognized by the nonprofit Asia Society and
the Goldman Sachs Foundation in a national report, "Schools for the Global
Age: Promising Practices in International Education." The two groups hope to
inspire others to replicate the school's model.

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