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Birdville ISD is going multilingual. With more than 60 different dialects spoken in Birdville ISD, the district has added Google Translator to its website to give visitors the ability to translate the website to a variety of languages. From English to Spanish, Vietnamese, or even Russian, Google Translator converts text “on the fly” allowing Birdville ISD to offer multilingual communications to website visitors at no cost to the users or the district. Google Translator may not always translate each word or thought as written in English, however, Birdville ISD hopes our users find it to be a beneficial resource.

 

Traducciones de sitios web

Birdville ISD va multilingüe. Con más de 60 diferentes dialectos que se hablan en Birdville ISD, el distrito ha añadido Traductor de Google para dar a los visitantes la posibilidad de traducir el sitio web a una variedad de idiomas. Del Inglés al español, vietnamita, ruso o, incluso, Google Translator convierte el texto “sobre la marcha”, que permite Birdville ISD para ofrecer comunicaciones multilingües para los visitantes del sitio sin costo alguno para los usuarios o el distrito. Google Translator no siempre se puede traducir cada palabra o pensamiento como está escrito en Inglés, sin embargo, Birdville ISD espera que los usuarios encuentran que es un recurso beneficioso.

 

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Birdville ISD là đa ngôn ngữ. Với hơn 60 phương ngữ khác nhau trong Birdville ISD, huyện đã được thêm Google Translator để cung cấp cho du khách khả năng để dịch các trang web vào một loạt các ngôn ngữ. Từ tiếng Anh sang tiếng Tây Ban Nha, tiếng Việt, hoặc tiếng Nga, Google Translator cho phép Birdville ISD để cung cấp các tin liên lạc đa ngôn ngữ cho khách truy cập trang web không có chi phí cho người sử dụng. Google Translator có thể không phải luôn luôn dịch mỗi từ hoặc nghĩ rằng nó được viết bằng tiếng Anh, tuy nhiên, chúng tôi hy vọng nguồn tài nguyên này là hữu ích.

 

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Birdville ISD Jazzfest

Birdville ISD’s Jazzfest featuring Wycliffe Gordon and the BISD All-Star Jazz Band is Feb. 7 at Richland High School.
Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and the concert at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 for dinner and the show. Tickets for only the show are $8 for adults and $5 for students (first-12th grade). For information, visit schools.birdvilleschools.net/jazzfest.

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2011 Public Reporting of Progress in Meeting Highly Qualified Teacher Requirements

NCLBThe No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires that all core academic subject area teachers should have met the highly qualified (HQ) teacher requirements by the end of the 2006-07 school year. The core academic subjects are: English, reading/language arts, math, science, civics and government, economics, history, geography, foreign languages and fine arts (music, art, dance and theater).

NCLB requires each local education agency to publicly report progress toward meeting the HQ teacher requirements as defined by the State’s measurable highly qualified teacher objectives.

Birdville ISD is in compliance with the NCLB requirement and has reported that 100 percent of all core academic subject area teachers are highly qualified for 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years.

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The 2011 Texas School Ready! Certification Awards were announced recently by UTH Children’s Learning Institute.

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Texas School Ready!™ is a program that certifies preschool education classrooms that effectively prepared their students for kindergarten. BISD teachers participated in this certification application through the Prekindergarten Early Start Grant during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years.

 

Birdville ISD  2011 Texas School Ready! Certification awarded to:

Birdville Elementary
Mick Sandoval, Principal
Laura Tippett and Yesmin Mejia, Teachers

W.T. Francisco Elementary
Janelle Rayfield, Principal
Priscila Lunsford and Rene Grimes, Teachers

Major Cheney Elementary at South Birdville
Han Arthurs, Principal
Judy Peresh and Vicki Miller, Teachers

Academy at West Birdville
Lindi Andrews, Principal
Margaret Estrada, Valarie King and Celestina Olguin, Teachers

Holiday Heights Elementary
Patrick Guy, Principal
Diana Gauthier and Maeghan Johnson

Watauga Elementary
Jennifer Salyards, Principal (Sharon Heier, Principal 2009-10)
Gloria Montemayor, Teacher

The Sunshine House
Angie Barton, Principal
Julie McElroy, Teacher

Carson Head Start
Monika Koenig, Principal
Rana Greathouse, Laura Guinn and Emily White

Prekindergarten teachers in Texas will be rewarded this week for their dedication to preparing students for kindergarten when their classrooms receive School Readiness Certification for the state of Texas.

For prekindergarten classrooms assessed from the 2009-2010 school year, 3,152 classrooms are receiving 2011-2012 certification through a legislatively-funded evaluation system operated by the Children’s Learning Institute at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). More than 65 percent of eligible classrooms were certified.

“Texas School Readiness Certification demonstrates the dedication of local prekindergarten educators to ensure that all children are prepared to enter school,” said Susan Landry, Ph.D., Children’s Learning Institute Director and Albert and Margaret Alkek Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Education. “This certification program continues to make a difference in children’s lives because of the support of parents, teachers and community and state leaders.”

To achieve certification, teachers at preschools and other early childhood education and development centers provide information about their classroom instructional practices. The results are then studied along with information provided by Texas public school districts to assess students’ early reading and social development skills after they advance to kindergarten. The annual certification shows that children who graduated from these prekindergarten classrooms went to public kindergarten with the fundamental early literacy skills in place to be successful. Licensed childcare providers, Head Start and public prekindergarten classrooms are included in the program.

The Prekindergarten Early Start Grant allowed our district to participate in the Texas School Ready! Certification system which was designed to increase school readiness for at-risk preschool-aged children. The PKES staff provided support throughout the certification process including extensive professional development, classroom mentoring for teachers and ongoing progress monitoring tools to help guide instruction.

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Students Partner with the Northeast Richland Lions Club and Walmart

Birdville ISD students have partnered with the Northeast Richland Lions Club and Walmart on Rufe Snow and 820 to take up used eye glasses throughout the school district.  During the month of October, students collected 648 pairs of glasses for those in need. Walmart will send the glasses to the Texas Lions Eyeglasses Recycling Center in Midland. The recycling center organizes optical training teams composed of Lions, doctors and opticians to work with Lions throughout Texas and in developing countries to redistribute the donated eyeglasses to those who need them.

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