{"id":18893,"date":"2022-05-06T09:48:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T13:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=18893"},"modified":"2022-05-06T15:34:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T19:34:32","slug":"acps-and-ptac-to-host-forum-for-families-of-english-learners-on-may-10-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=18893","title":{"rendered":"ACPS and PTAC to Host Forum for Families of English Learners on May 10, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/cms\/lib\/VA01918616\/Centricity\/Domain\/4\/ACPS-Express-20220506-spanish.pdf\">en espa\u00f1ol (PDF)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/cms\/lib\/VA01918616\/Centricity\/Domain\/4\/ACPS-Express-20220506-amharic.pdf\">\u12a0\u121b\u122d\u129b (PDF)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/cms\/lib\/VA01918616\/Centricity\/Domain\/4\/ACPS-Express-20220506-arabic.pdf\">\u0628\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) during a <a href=\"https:\/\/acps.cc\/ELzoom\">Zoom webinar for parents of English Learners<\/a> on Tues., May 10, 7-8 p.m. This is an opportunity for families to learn the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How is a student identified as an English Learner (EL)?<\/li>\n<li>How is EL instruction provided during the school day?<\/li>\n<li>What are the benefits of English language development?<\/li>\n<li>What is the Dual Language Program?<\/li>\n<li>What equity initiatives and opportunities support the success of EL students at ACPS?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The forum will be moderated by Alexandria Council of PTAs (PTAC) Co-Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Mariam Fikre and will include the following speakers from ACPS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Bethany Nickerson, executive director of English learner services.<\/li>\n<li>Michelle Suchenski, EL instructional specialist.<\/li>\n<li>Kennetra Wood, executive director of equity and alternative programs.<\/li>\n<li>Jodie Peters, AVID\/College readiness coordinator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interpretation will be provided in Spanish, Amharic, Arabic and Dari. Families who have questions that you would like addressed during the meeting should send them in advance by email to <a href=\"mailto:face@acps.k12.va.us\">face@acps.k12.va.us<\/a> or by voicemail at 571-601-4166.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Alexandria City Public Schools during a Zoom webinar for parents of English Learners on Tues., May 10, 7-8 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-23 01:44:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18916,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893\/revisions\/18916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}