“As a dual language graduate student, I feel prepared to use both languages in my career without feeling different. And as a person prepared to enter the medical field, I will not allow a language barrier to threaten someone’s life,' said Zercovia White.
Brackenridge High School dual language seniors Emily Hernandez, Arnold Salazar, Camila Rios, Sofia Bocanegra, Kereni Alvarez and Arturo Velasquez are part of the first graduating SAISD students in the program that launched when they were freshmen.For Brackenridge High School senior Karla Castillo, participating in the dual language program helped her feel seen not only as a Mexican American but as a young woman.
The students either already spoke Spanish at home or had participated in the district’s elementary dual language program at Bonham Academy, making them perfect candidates for SAISD’s first high school cohort of emergent bilingual students, said Esmeralda Alday, executive director of the district’s dual language, ESL and migrant program.
In 2018, a group of SAISD principals visited Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD in the Rio Grande Valley to observe its high school dual language program, returning with the hopes of replicating the model here, Alday said. But the district didn’t have a pipeline of students coming from feeder schools with dual language programs. Students may have been in the elementary program or spoke Spanish at home, but they weren’t using the language in school.
“It was an awakening point for me realizing I don’t know what I thought I did,” she said. “As a dual language graduate student, I feel prepared to use both languages in my career without feeling different. And as a person prepared to enter the medical field, I will not allow a language barrier to threaten someone’s life.”At Bonham, White took biology in both languages, but at Brackenridge, the teacher taught the class mostly in Spanish, which was a shock to her at first.
But the program didn’t just help students. The teachers SAISD recruited taught in Spanish “under the radar” but weren’t certified as bilingual educators, Alday said.
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