November 5, 2022
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Panther Native Language Academy Session (Season) 2 classes will get underway on November 7, with largely the same schedule as before except for a few tweaks. Questions always welcome! PantherNativeLanguageAcademy@isb.ac.th
Young students prepare to write ひらがな with brushes and water, and older students read aloud in ES Japanese. Teacher: Ayaka Kobayashi
September 2, 2022
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Registration has closed and classes have opened for Session (Season) 1 in the Panther Native Language Academy! If you have questions about your child’s schedule, please feel free to email: PantherNativeLanguageAcademy@isb.ac.th
Smiles in an ES Hebrew class, September 2022. Teacher: Oren Rubin
August 11, 2022
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Welcome to the 2022-23 school year! Registration is now open for after-school programs, including Panther Native Language Academy!
Panther Native Language Academy teachers (top) with Anthony Giles, Director of Arts and Activities
Schedules for PNLA classes will be tailored to fit the participants’ availability.
If you have questions about Panther Native Language Academy, please come to our booth in MPB 1-3 between 9 a.m. and 12 noon on Saturday, August 20, during the Panther Activities & Sports Fair. The MPB is at the top of the Zigzag.
Please note: Our after-school native language classes best suit students who are (a) unable to take a native language class during school, or (b) students who need extra support as determined by the teacher of the native language class in school. A native/near native language is generally described as a language that is used on a daily basis with at least one parent. Further details are here.
Please feel free to email questions anytime! PantherNativeLanguageAcademy@isb.ac.th
Here’s to a language-rich school year!
June 17, 2022
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As the 2021-22 school year concludes today, we share a video created by a G5 Panther Native Language Academy student to thank our teachers and raise money for Bumble Bee Free Library. Gratitude to all!
June 16, 2022
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The vacation between school years is an opportunity to practice languages . . . by visiting home countries, reading books for pleasure, speaking with loved ones, and more. How will your family “tug on” languages during ISB’s upcoming vacation?
줄다리기 at an ES Korean party for the International Day of Multilingualism, March 2022. Teacher: Young Ae Jung
Touwtrekken at an ES/MS/HS Dutch celebration of Koningsdag, April 2022. Teacher (not pictured): Kees Meinders
April 18, 2022
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On Tuesday morning, March 29, 2022, ISB welcomed Dr. Laura Ascenzi-Moreno and Dr. Cecilia M. Espinosa, authors of the book Rooted in Strength, to join us remotely for a Parent Education session about translanguaging. They explored the questions What is translanguaging? and What does it mean for my family? They also responded to questions from ISB parents.
Their one-hour session is now available as a video! Here are details about the session and the speakers. What questions do you have about translanguaging?
March 14, 2022
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What languages might you hear on ISB’s campus these days? Here is a snapshot based on student data for Semester 2, 2021-22 (click image to enlarge).
Note: This graph shows the number of students for whom each language is listed as Student Language in PowerSchool. The data is incomplete, as multilingual students could report only one Student Language, and some families did not report a language.
Below is one more snapshot, of how many ISB households are likely to be multilingual. The green portion, just less than 20 percent, represents families for whom English is listed as Student Language, Parent 1 Language, and Parent 2 Language in PowerSchool. The blue portion represents all families for whom that is not the case.
Since English is a common language at school, it may come as a surprise that most ISB households are not monolingual, English-speaking households. This graph makes that reality visible.
To check on your family’s language data in PowerSchool, contact us anytime:
nativelanguage@isb.ac.th
March 2, 2022
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Thanks to all who signed up for Panther Native Language Academy (PNLA) Semester 2! The Panther Activities payment window is now open.
Below: PK2 Thai class, taught by Dr. Pimolpun (Jib) Burapharat (far below) with assistant Khun Viyada (Tuu) Kunakorn.
December 17, 2021
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Happy Holidays to you and yours from Panther Native Language Academy!
See if you can spot virtual Dutch and Hebrew classes, taught by Kees Meinders and Oren Rubin, in the video here. A photo from an in-person Mandarin class, taught by Zhouying Wang since mid-November, is above.
Sign-up for Semester 2 PNLA classes will open in January. Most classes will start on January 24, two weeks into the semester, when an update to COVID-19 safety measures is expected. [Update, 14 January: most PNLA classes will now start on January 31.]
Here’s to a language-rich Winter Holiday!
October 25, 2021
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Today, ISB faculty took a “translanguaging field trip” to schools around the world with Tonya Gilchrist of Erin Kent Consulting, as part of a Professional Development Day.
Did you know that translanguaging means leveraging all of students’ languages for learning? Here is an article by Gilchrist that says more—and involves cake! 🍰
Here are more posts on this blog about translanguaging at ISB.