Dual Language Offerings in Illinois
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Click HERE to view the map of Illinois School Districts. Information about each district’s program offerings are visible in the description, otherwise in the table below.
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| District | Program Type | Grades Offered | Language | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barrington CUSD 2020 | Dual Language Program | K-5 | Spanish | Two-way immersion program, 90/10 --> 50/50, goal to extend into middle/high school | Becky Wiegel Director of District Programs rwiegel@barrington220.org 847-842-3522 |
| TBE/OWI | K-12 | Spanish | To incorporate ELLs into English classrooms, but also calls itself OWI... Elementary school is whole time, grades 6-12 are part time | ||
| Chinese Immersion Program | K-5 (?) | Chinese | 50/50 model, unclear what grade program ends, plans to continue to grade 12 | ||
| Belviedere CUSD 100 | One-Way Immersion | K-5 | Spanish | At 2 elementary schools for students identified as ELLs, 50/50 program | Rene Mandujano, Director of Language & Culture (815) 547-7637 |
| Two-Way Immersion | K-5 | Spanish | At 2 elementary schools, 22 NES/22 NSS in each class, 50/50 program | ||
| Berwyn North SD 98 | Two-Way Immersion | K-1 | Spanish | 50/50 program for NES and NSS, plans to continue to grade 12 | |
| Berwyn South SD 100 | unspecified | K-8 | Spanish | No real description of programs, just the vision statement: "Students in the department of language acquisition will become bilingual, bi-literate, bicultural, and be high academic achievers by the time they graduate from 8th grade." | Beatriz Maldonado - 708-795-2300 ext. 4014 Director of Language Acquisition/Directora de Adquisición de Lenguaje |
| Cary CCSD 26 | Two-Way Immersion | K-5 | Spanish | Two-way immersion program, 50/50 model (division of materials in each lang unequal) | 224.357.5450 |
| CCSD 93 | Two-Way Immersion | K-5 (?) | Spanish | Two-way immersion program, day mostly in Spanish with bit in English in afternoon | 630.539.3138 |
| Champaign CUSD 4 | Two-Way Immersion | K-5 | Spanish | Two-way immersion program, 50/50 model | VIODELDA JUDKINS - Director of ESL & Bilingual Education 217-373-7357 |
| Two-Way Immersion | K-5 | French | Two-way immersion program, 50/50 model | ||
| Cincero SD 99 | One-Way Immersion | K-? | Spanish | Clearly has a program, but very little helpful info. Seems like a good DL program, but department is ELL -- conflicting ideas | Araceli Medina - Director Of English Language Learners amedina@cicd99.edu |
| Two-Way Immersion | K-? | Spanish | |||
| City of Chicago SD 299 | see CPS directory | ||||
| Comms Cons SD 59 | One-Way Immersion | K-8 | Spanish | These two programs are both 50/50 models, just the student's first langauges are different. Full program, talked about in the video | Griselda Pirtle Director of Multilingual Programs (847) 472-3775 pirtle.griselda@ccsd59.org |
| Two-Way Immersion | K-8 | Spanish | |||
| One-Way Immersion | Polish | I'm confused about this bc it is mentioned, but is never mentioned in the video about the programs. no real info about these two | |||
| Two-Way Immersion | Polish | ||||
| Cook County SD 130 | DL Program | K-5 | Spanish | 50/50 model, one/two way not specified. | Enid Alvarez - Director of Language, Culture and Learning ealvarez@district130.org |
| TBE | Spanish | Starts with full time model, then move to part time. Grades not specified. | |||
| Crystal Lake CCSD 47 | Two-Way Immersion | K-8 | Spanish | 80/20 --> 50/50 in 3rd grade. | Kari Keith, Director of Dual Language and English Learner programs, kkeith@d47.org or 815.788.5035. |
| CUSD 300 | Clearly has a program, but no real information about it on website. | Josh Perdomo Coordinator of Title I and EL Services 847-551-8324 Joshua.Perdomo@d300.org |
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| CUSD 308 | Two-Way Immersion | K-5 | Spanish | 80/20 --> 50/50, two way program | Department of English Learners 630.636.3684 |
| Diamond Lake SD 76 | "Two-Way Dual Language/Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE)" | K-5 | Spanish | "Push In/Pull Out 50/50" ≈ more like a TBE program but still uses Spanish. Unclear | |
| Transitional Program of Instruction (TPI) | K-5 | Spanish | Transitional program to teach Spanish speakers English, no use of Spanish in program | ||
| Evanston CCSD 65 | Two-Way Immersion | K-5 | Spanish | NES and NSS, about half day in each lang, plans to expand through 8th grade. Also offeres "Bilingual/ESL" and ESL courses | Amy Correa, Bilingual and ESL Program Director (847) 859-8104 correaa@district65.net |
| Glen Ellyn SD 41 | Two-Way Immersion | K-5 | Spanish | NES and NSS, 50/50 model, block by days (3SPN,2ENG or visa versa) | Katie McCluskey - ESL/Bilingual Director 630-534-7206 - kmccluskey@d41.org |
| Harvard CUSD 50 | Two-Way Immersion | K-5 | Spanish | NES and NSS, no model specified or any real information. Page is old and the one available is bad. Has a vid but just brags. Offers seal of biliteracy exam | Amber Bowgren - District Bilingual and Dual Language Coordinator 815-943-4022 Ext. 2118 - abowgren@cusd50.org |
| Hawthorn CCSD 73 | All DL/Bilingual links are broken. No info available. Last search result for 'bilingual' from 2016 | ||||
| Kankakee SD 111 | One-Way Immersion | K-6 | Spanish | Programs are the same, just at different schools with NSS and/or NES. Through 3rd grade at ES and middle school goes through 6th grade as of last year | Ana Kasal Director of Bilingual Program & Principal at Steuben 815-802-4600 or ana-kasal@ksd111.org |
| Two-Way Immersion | K-6 | Spanish | |||
| TBE | K-5, 6-8, 9-12 | ? | Transitional program when there are 20 or more students who speak same native language. all about learning english | ||
| TBI | K-5, 6-8, 9-12 | ? | ESL instruction, but seems to make a point to teach about home language, culture, country | ||
| Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89 | Two-Way Immersion (?) | preK-5 | Spanish | Little information, "balanced group of native English speakers and speakers of another language (Spanish), or speakers of the same language other than English (Spanish)" | Jacqueline Arevalo - Speech/Language Pathologist | Washington Dual Language Academy - jacqueline.arevalo@Maywood89.org |
| Moline-Coal Valley CUSD 40 | Two-Way Immersion | K-5 | Spanish | At Lincoln-Irving ES DL Academy. Two way program, good selection process to balance out makeup of classroom, model not specified | Stephanee Jordan - Director of ELL Programs (309) 743-8123 - sjordan@molineschools.org |
| Naperville CUSD 203 | Two-way Immersion | K-5 with options | Spanish | NES/NSS Balanced program, 80/20 --> 50/50. Seems to officially end in ES, but there are course options to continue language in middle (2-3/9 courses) and HS (4 course offerings) | Gabriela Velazquez - Dual Language Coordinator gvelazquez@naperville203.org - 630-579-7130 |
| North Shore SD 112 | Two-way Immersion | K-8 | Spanish | NES/NSS, conflicting K-5 or K-8 info. options in middle and HS - seal of biliteracy | |
| Rockford SD 205 | Two-way immersion | K-8 | Spanish | ONLY at Barbour school. Clearly has a good program, but not a lot of details. ALSO HAS: Developmental, TBE, TPI, Newcomer but no clear info about these programs. | Misael Nascimento - Executive Director of Bilingual and Multicultural Services Misael.nascimento@rps205.com |
| Schaumburg CCSD 54 | Two-way immersion | K-8 | Spanish | Native speakers of both languages, model not specified but has huge plan for proficiency and expectations | school: (847) 357-5075 or contact@sd54.org |
| Two-way immersion | K-8 | Japanese | |||
| One-Way Immersion | K-8 | Chinese | mostly for students w/o any experience with Chinese - NES | ||
| SD U-46 | Two-way immersion | K-6 | Spanish | 80/20 model, is only an elementary school program, but offers courses in middle and high school to continue student's language learning | Programa para Estudiantes que Aprenden Inglés Teléfono: (847) 888-5000 ext. 5331 o 5332 |
| One-Way Immersion | K-6 | Spanish | |||
| Urbana SD 116 | Two-Way Immersion | preK-1 | French | 50/50 model, 1st graded added this year and will continue to expand | |
| Two-Way Immersion | preK-5 | Spanish | 90/10 model, NES and NSS, offered in 3 schools | ||
| West Chicago ESD 33 | One-Way Immersion | K-5 | Spanish | Offered district wide for all Spanish speakers, trans to this instead of TBE to keep Span | Rocio Fisher, Director for Second Language Learners at the district office (630) 293-6000 x207 |
| Two-Way Immersion | K-5 | Spanish | Never says "two-way" but that is what it is. Offered at one of the ES. Not many clear details about the program, continues to middle school 6-8 grade | ||
| Wheeling CCSD 21 | Two-Way Immersion | K-2 | Spanish | Plans to continue, few details about actual program, lists FLES and ESL under bilingual education | Marcela Rodriguez, Instructional Specialist: Bilingual & ESL marcela.rodriguez@ccsd21.org |
| Woodland CCSD 50 | Two-Way Immersion | K-5 | Spanish | 50/50 model, NES and NSS ≈ equal, two teacher model. plans to continue to 8th grade. Lots of changes and improvement going on at these schools | Ms. Szepesi - Coordinator of Dual Language & Bilingual Education eszepesi@dist50.net - 847-596-5623 |
| Coodstock CUSK 200 | Two-Way Immersion | K-? | Spanish | uses 50/50 and 90/10 model --> unclear when and why. Plans to continue through 12th | Department of Language & Cultural Education Phone: 815-334-3406 - Fax: 815-338-2005 |
| Yorkville CUSD 115 | Two-Way Immersion | K-6 | Spanish | 90/10 --> 50/50 model for NES and NSS, option to take seal of biliteracy exam | Jill Zapata -- Coordinator for Bilingual and English Learner Services (630)-553-4048 or jzapata@y115.org |