Fairmount views all members of the community as teachers and learners, offering many programs supporting learning for families as well as students. Parents may select Fairmount’s English-Spanish Two-Way Immersion Program, which develops fluency in both languages for English Language Learners and English-proficient students. Support for families includes family literacy workshops, Spanish and English classes for adults, and cultural celebrations. Fairmount emphasizes literacy and mathematics, incorporating activities that apply students’...
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The Two-Way Bilingual Program at Fairmount is designed to serve native-English and native-Spanish-speaking students within the same classroom. Language is acquired by meaningful communication through content instruction. The two language populations are purposely grouped in the same classroom to create opportunities to speak and learn in a cross-cultural setting. All teachers are certified as bilingual. Students who require extra support will be provided with primary language literacy through after-school tutorials...more »
