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ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
The North Allegheny School District provides a program for each student whose dominant language is not English for the purpose of facilitating the student's achievement of English proficiency and all academic standards. The family of each student who enrolls in the District is asked to complete a home language survey. If a student's home language is not English, an English proficiency assessment is given. Students who do not demonstrate English proficiency are scheduled for appropriate English Language Development (ELD) instruction. Questions regarding the ELD program may be referred to the student's assigned school building or the Curriculum and Assessment Department.
The North Allegheny School District has implemented a magnet school model for Multilingual Learner (ML) students. Students will be assigned to a specific school so that services are delivered more effectively. At the elementary level, Franklin Elementary, Marshall Elementary, and McKnight Elementary will be the magnet schools for the elementary ELD Program. In this model, ML students are reassigned to these buildings for all instruction, eliminating shuttle transportation between buildings and loss of instructional time for students. At the middle level, Marshall Middle School will be the magnet school for the middle school ELD Program. ML students from North Allegheny Senior High School will travel to North Allegheny Intermediate School for ELD instruction. When students are exited from the ELD Program and monitored, the student will return to the home school attendance building..
IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFORMATION
ELEMENTARY ELD PROGRAM INFORMATION
- English
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- Russian
- Spanish
WELCOME MESSAGE & INFORMATION—PRESENTED IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
ELD TEACHERS & DISTRICT CONTACTS
DISTRICT
- Katherine Krivak, Supervisor of English Language Development
- Mary Folmer, Administrative Assistant, Student Services
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- Elspeth Cunningham, Franklin Elementary
- Jackie Gaus, Franklin Elementary
- Emily Otteni, Franklin Elementary
- Amy DeGregorio, Marshall Elementary
- Sangeetha Ramakrishna, Marshall Elementary
- Nicole Carroll, McKnight Elementary
- Melissa Zarra, McKnight Elementary
- Sara Rebmann, Peebles Elementary
MIDDLE SCHOOL
- Allison Baran, Marshall Middle School
- Aliceann Boyle, Marshall Middle School
HIGH SCHOOL
- Allison Baran, North Allegheny Intermediate and North Allegheny Senior High School
- Marcy Marshall, North Allegheny Intermediate and North Allegheny Senior High School