The Summer Was A Busy Time for Many in Princeton School District
World Language, ESL, and Bilingual Supervisor Priscilla Russel, described the goal of LEAP (Learning English Across Programs), a literacy-based program for English Language Learners from entering K to grade 12, as “helping English language learners keep their language skills sharp during the summer by meeting daily for four weeks in the morning at Community Park Elementary School. We especially welcome English Language Learners who will enter the Princeton schools in September. LEAP participants meet from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and then a cohort of 8th through 12th graders stay for lunch and Math LEAP, which meets three days a week until 3 p.m.”
The District also offered a federally-funded Chinese Immersion program under STARTALK, the newest component of the National Security Language Initiative (NSLI), which seeks to expand and improve the teaching and learning of strategically important world languages that are not now widely taught in the U.S.
