Community - Class News

Richmond

Mt. Tabor / Taborsan

Taborsan Times newsletter, advisor parent and Tabor volunteer coordinator Melanie Scheuermann

Grant

High School Redesign, PPS

• High School Redesign Web site, PPS
• Joint letter from ONK, Shu Ren, The Lincoln Cluster Spanish Immersion Advocacy Group, and the Atkinson, Hosford and Cleveland Spanish Immersion Advocacy Group - December 18, 2009 (pdf)
• Letter from ONK Board to Superintendent Carole Smith - December 16, 2009(pdf)

• Sapporo Institute Information Meeting - May 19, 2010 (PowerPoint)
• Road Map to Superior Proficiency: Making Secondary Immersion Work - April 7, 2010 (PowerPoint)

Community Based Language Learning (CBLL)

• CBLL Basic Statement of Understanding [pdf] [doc]
• CBLL Activity Approval form [pdf] [doc]
• CBLL Oral Presentation Documentation [pdf] [doc]
• CBLL Activity Documentation [pdf] [doc]

Current CBLL Activity Opportunities

Tutoring at Richmond

Can you commit to one afternoon per week helping tutor JMP students at Richmond? This is an opportunity to earn Japanese language CBLL credit and to nurture a young JMP student and to give something back to the program. Please send an email to Liz Evans at runyan@easystreet.com if you are interested. We will try to get some sort of carpooling transportation going to help Grant students get to Richmond. This would be a great way to get regularly scheduled CBLL credit.

Seitokai- Grant's Japanese Immersion Student Government- by Nick Budak
JIP students from all grades at Grant High School have been meeting in their Japanese classroom on Wednesdays at lunch. Building on the idea of the Oya No Kai, they've created the Seitokai, or council of students - a group dedicated to getting involved in the JIP community from a student perspective at Grant High. Covering a wide variety of JMP experience from freshmen to seniors, the group has representatives from each separate JIP class at Grant, with about a dozen total members. Founded by Grant senior Sean Riley, an active community member, the group's mission is to unite the JIP in high school and promote extracurricular activities that enhance the Japanese language learning process. Recently, they've appeared at Mt. Tabor middle school to encourage students to follow the JIP to Grant, and also at Beverly Clearly school Fernwood campus to teach 3rd graders about Japanese culture. Within the JIP, they organized an effort to make 1000 cranes and take pictures of their classmates holding a "get well soon" banner for a 5-year-old named Kai who recently underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor. In the future, the group is aiming to make themselves heard by the Oya No Kai and Grant administration, in order to offer their opinion on JIP decisions that affect the Grant portion of the JIP. You can contact the members of Grant Seitokai at grantseitokai@gmail.com.

Kids and intern links

Japanese Jobs

Jobba.net

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