Multilingual Program Description

Mission Statement

The Berkeley High School Multilingual Program prepares students from around the world for academic success and to meaningfully engage in and contribute to the BHS community.

Our staff includes ELD teachers, SDAIE content instructors, academic counselors, bilingual tutors, bilingual men- tors and a Bilingual Home School Liaison. We all work to advocate for, and empower our students to reach their full potential as scholars and community members.

Our teachers seek to create classroom environments where students can build their academic English skills through interactive structured student talk, differentiated and sheltered instruction (SDAIE), and predictable classroom routines.

Our Bilingual Home School Liaison, tutors, mentors, and academic counselor, facilitate communication and engagement with our students’ families so that they can successfully navigate the educational system and access available resources at BHS.

Our students, in turn, utilize the tools given to them by their support providers to progressively develop their English Language proficiency, while strengthening their content knowledge. They will simultaneously build their leadership skills in order to become active members of the BHS community and beyond.

9TH GRADE LONG-TERM ENGLISH LEARNERS, who have been in the USA for 6+ years, have access to academic language learning in an Expository Writing class.