In Northside, we enrich the linguistic, academic and affective learning experiences for students. Every student and family grows as part of an educational community that empowers all to excel while celebrating multiculturalism. Our goal is to provide learning experiences that inspire students' confidence, curiosity, and capability.
Dual Language Immersion Two-way Bilingual Program
The NISD Dual Language Bilingual Program model in Northside is research-based. The dual language model seeks to create bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural students by developing their academic proficiency in English and Spanish.
Goal: Emergent Bilingual students attain bilingualism, biliteracy, and sociocultural competence to reach high levels of literacy and academic achievement in the partner language and English.
Instruction: Emergent Bilingual students receive instruction in literacy and academic content in their partner language as well as English from teachers certified in bilingual/ESL education. At least 50% of the instruction is delivered in the students’ primary language for the duration of the program.
Transitional Bilingual Academic Program
Northside’s Transitional Bilingual/Early exit is a bilingual program model in which students identified as Emergent Bilingual students are served in both English and the students' primary language and are prepared to meet reclassification criteria to be successful in English instruction with no second language acquisition supports not earlier than two or later than five years after the student enrolls in school.
Goal: Emergent Bilingual students utilize their primary language as a resource while acquiring full proficiency in English to participate equitably in school.
Instruction: Emergent Bilingual students receive instruction in literacy and academic content in their primary language as well as English from teachers certified in bilingual education. As the child acquires English, the amount of instruction provided in the primary language decreases until full proficiency in English is attained.
Dual Language Application Process (English/Español)
This is a general timeline. Some of these dates are subject to change based on District recommendations and individual campus resources.
Este es un calendario general. Algunas fechas están sujetas a cambios según las recomendaciones del Distrito y los recursos individuales de cada escuela.
January 31 (ongoing)
- Applications for participation in the program will be accepted on the NISD Dual Language website. https://duallang.nisd.net
March 21
- The Dual Language Lottery will take place.
- Applications will continue to be accepted. Placement will be considered based on space availability in individual campuses.
April - May
- Dual Language campuses will use the lottery results to create their class lists.
- Schools will begin communicating to families acceptance or waitlist status. They will also send official notifications through email.
May - June
- Campuses will continue to work to finalize their dual language class rosters.
- Applications will continue to be accepted and placement will be considered based on space availability in individual campuses.
31 de enero (continuo)
- Comienza el proceso de solicitud al programa de doble sendero en la página web de NISD. https://duallang.nisd.net
21 de marzo
- Se realiza la lotería del programa de doble sendero.
- El proceso de solicitud continuará abierto. Admisión al programa dependerá de los espacios disponibles en cada escuela.
abril - mayo
- Las escuelas de doble senderon utilizan los resultados de la lotería para crear sus listas de clases.
- Las escuelas comienzan a comunicar a las familias información sobre admisión o estatus de lista de espera. También enviarán comunicaciones oficiales por email.
mayo - junio
- Las escuelas finalizan las listas de las clases de doble sendero.
- El proceso de solicitud continuará abierto. Admisión al programa dependerá de los espacios disponibles en cada escuela
PK-8 Trajectory Framework
NISD Dual Language Trajectory - A strong foundation in Spanish is required for overall success in secondary classes, which at the middle school level include Pre-AP & AP Spanish, as well as Social Studies in Spanish.