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The launch of the Beacon Hill International School was announced on Jan. 17, 2007 by Superintendant
Maria Goodloe-Johnson. Beacon Hill will be the second international elementary school, joining the
John Stanford International School. The program will integrate global perspectives into curriculum,
stressing multicultural literature, world economics, global health as well as arts, music, dance and
drama from around the world.
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The school will offer three key programs starting in Fall 2008: Spanish/English Dual Language Immersion, Chinese Mandarin/English
Partial Immersion and an English Language International Program with incoming Kindergarten students spending half the school day studying
and working in a new language taught by native speakers while also simultaneously advancing their academic skills in core curriculum
of reading, writing, math and science. The school's current federally-funded Chinese Mandarin classes, taught a half hour each day,
will continue for those students attending Grades 1- 5 next year. Further information is available at:
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