CPS World Languages

@CRLStweets ASL students are spending today visiting the @Northeastern ASL program. A perfect fall day to make new friends in Boston’s ASL community. @cambridge_cpsd

So excited to begin the new school year! @CRLStweets @cambridge_cpsd

Congratulations to 95 Seal of Biliteracy recipients graduating from @CRLStweets today. We awarded Seals in 16 languages! One stdt achieved four Seals; one stdt qualified for three Seals, and ten stdts got two Seals. This represents 19% of our senior class! @cambridge_cpsd

Thanks to @thecoolidge for hosting @CRLStweets Chinese students today for a viewing and discussion of the film en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farew… @cambridge_cpsd Watch us on @wbz news tonight!

Lots of excitement today during PAUS Annual Market Stand @cambridge_cpsd

Congratulations to CRLS Chinese students Rehaan Anjaria, Evan Wei, and Kyle Benesch-Lee who won prizes in the prestigious annual CLASS Chinese Essay Contest! @CRLStweets @cambridge_cpsd

PAUS French teacher Olf Mouyaka is founder FLO International flointernational.org/about, a service-based nonprofit that empowers youth and communities through the power of soccer. @cambridge_cpsd

Very excited for today’s data analysis training workshop with our WL team. @CRLStweets @cambridge_cpsd

Harvard School of Education @hgse graduate students served as exceptional docents today guiding @CRLStweets French students (in French!) through the incredible @harvartmuseums collection. We are so lucky to have this resource just a few steps from our campus. @cambridge_cpsd

CRLS Chinese students had a private tour of the Yin Yu Tang house pem.org/yin-yu-tang-a-… at PEM in Salem. Our @CRLStweets students were able to recognize many details they have been studying in our Qing dynasty unit. @cambridge_cpsd

Celebrating Day of The Dead with our annual VLUS trip to Harvard’s Peabody Museum. Grateful to have such an amazing community partner. @cambridge_cpsd

The CPS JK-12 World Language Department spent our District Colloquium Day developing an action plan to implement @DataWiseHarvard this year. We are so excited for the year ahead! @cambridge_cpsd @CRLStweets

17% of the @CRLStweets Class of 2024 achieved the Seal of Biliteracy in fifteen languages. @CPSWorldLang are analyzing results this week and planning for next year @hgse @DataWiseHarvard @cambridge_cpsd @BiliteracySeal

Students in todays' 7th Gr. Chinese Immersion at PAUS are writing incredible document based question essays about Mansa Musa's 1324 CE Hajj (pilgrimmage) from Niani, the old capital of Mali, to Mecca. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Mus…. @cambridge_cpsd

Redesigning our Seal of Biliteracy display on the first floor of CRLS today. Check it out! @CRLStweets

Today students in our new Post-AP Advanced Chinese elective are learning about Wu Zetian, the ruthless, first and only female emperor in Chinese history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Zetian @cambridge_cpsd @CRLStweets

What started as a grassroots campaign in 2008 to empower English learners in California to view their bilingualism as an asset rather than a barrier to academic success has grown into more of a nationwide effort. ow.ly/IBZg50P2NVb

Congratulations to CRLS senior Winta Gebretensae who received an Honorable Mention Award in the Chinese National Poster Award National contest! The theme of the poster (left) is "Harmony in Our Community”. CRLS students Farai Sundai & Lucia Mindell (middle) received... 1/2

If you zoom in, you will see that the World Language Department includes teachers from all over the world! Without looking at the map key, can you recognize the home country where each teacher developed their language proficiency? @cambridge_cpsd @CRLStweets

Luna-Nefeli Valayannopoulos-Akrivou and Nicolas Valayannopoulos-Akrivou were awarded the MA Seal of Biliteracy in Greek, Spanish and French. Luna-Nefeli and Nicolas are now studying Chinese at CRLS, their fifth language! This year 12% of CRLS grads achieved the Seal.@crlstweets