The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) Multilingual Education Department awarded a first-time Heritage Language Grant in 2021 to Wenatchee Public Schools in Wenatchee, WA, to offer a two-year remote-learning program for Heritage Language speakers of Romanian, Russian, Spanish, or Ukrainian. The project supports students to develop their language proficiency and literacy in their Heritage Language while also preparing a portfolio for the Global Competence Certificate in the Heritage Language and English through the World Affairs Council in Seattle. Students may complete World Language Competency-Based Credit testing to earn high school credits in their language and qualify for the Washington State Seal of Biliteracy. They may also earn the Global Seal of Biliteracy https://theglobalseal.com/.
Heritage Language Grant Team 2021-2022
- Dr. Michele Anciaux Aoki, Grant Project Manager
- intledwa@gmail.com
- Dr. Otilia Baraboi, Romanian Program Instructor
- otilia.baraboi@arcsproject.org
- Dr. Ileana Marin, Romanian Program Instructor
- ileana.marin@arcsproject.org
- Alexey Kuznetsov, Russian Program Instructor
- kuzaa9@gmail.com
- Larisa Shuvalova, Russian Program Instructor
- larashuvalova@gmail.com
- Mr. Pedro Lopez, Chaves, Spanish Program Instructor
- pedroeuropais@gmail.com
- Brandon Severance, Spanish Program Instructor
- bsevera@tacoma.k12.wa.us
- Inna Shynshyn, Ukrainian Program Instructor
- shynshyn.inna@gmail.com
- Iryna Novachuk, Ukrainian Program Instructor
- Novachukiryna@gmail.com
- Ryan Hauck, Education Director, World Affairs Council
- rhauck@world-affairs.org
Partners on the Grant 2021-2022
Wenatchee Public Schools partnered with a number of community-based organizations, including the American Romanian Cultural Society, Ethnic Heritage Council, Slavic East European Teachers Association of Washington, Washington Association for Language Teaching, Washington State Coalition for International Education, and the World Affairs Council Global Classroom.
Presentations about this grant program in 2021-2022
- WABE DL Inst 2022 Global Competence Certificate for HL Speakers Intro
- Award Ceremony and Student Presentations 6/28/2022
Student Work
You can view student work at Heritage Language Voices, including Global Competence Certificate portfolio websites:
- https://heritagelanguagevoices.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/what-russian-language-means-to-me-maksim/
- https://heritagelanguagevoices.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/what-russian-language-means-to-me-yunes/
- https://heritagelanguagevoices.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/what-russian-language-means-to-me-nikolas/
- https://heritagelanguagevoices.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/what-russian-language-means-to-me-anastasiia/
- https://heritagelanguagevoices.wordpress.com/2022/06/11/alexandra-b-gcc/
- https://heritagelanguagevoices.wordpress.com/2021/10/24/evelyn-alfaros-gcc/
- https://heritagelanguagevoices.wordpress.com/2021/10/05/alex-iliescus-gcc/
- https://heritagelanguagevoices.wordpress.com/2021/09/28/adriana-schmieders-gcc/
- https://heritagelanguagevoices.wordpress.com/2021/09/27/alexa-figueroa-gcc/