Multilingual Learner Program

SC Department of Education Title III Multilingual Learner and Immigrant Children and Youth Program Guiding Principles

Multilingual Learner Program (MLP)

Greenville County MLP Goals and Objectives

The goal of Greenville County School District’s MLP is to provide equitable educational opportunities to culturally and linguistically diverse students who have a primary or first language other than English. The primary focus is to provide an English-rich environment with a variety of opportunities to reach English language proficiency as soon as possible. Greenville County Schools is working to create a learning environment that encourages pride in cultural heritage and supporting Multilingual Learners (MLs) towards graduation plus.

The Multilingual Learner Program strives to achieve the following learning objectives:

To identify and assess all students whose first or primary language is one other than English as indicated on the South Carolina Enrollment Survey
To provide MLP services for MLs in all English language domains: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
To assess and monitor the academic progress of MLs with an on-going evaluation process.
To create a learning environment that provides for the affective and cognitive needs of MLs.
To communicate instructional goals and expectations to parents and encourage them to support their children’s progress.
To provide MLP personnel with professional development in appropriate instructional, assessment and culturally responsive teaching strategies needed to support MLs.
To hire and maintain staff to provide MLs with an equitable educational opportunity.
To monitor students who have exited the program to assure continued language and academic success
To provide professional development for content area teachers to equip them with the tools that they need to educate MLs in their classroom.

MLP Office and Staff

MT. Anderson Support Center

100 Blassingame Road, Greenville, SC 29605

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Tanya Franca, Director of MLP Services

tfranca@greenville.k12.sc.us |864-355-2984

Janene Jackson, MLP Office Secretary

jajackso@greenville.k12.sc.us | 864-355-2978

Miriam Rios, MLP Family Specialist

mlrios@greenville.k12.sc.us | 864-355-2985

Kerry Culpepper, MLP Lead Teacher

kculpepp@greenville.k12.sc.us | 864-355-2970

Joni Bown, Title I MLP Specialist (K12/Transformation Schools)

jbown@greenville.k12.sc.us | 864-355-1023

Latoi Gibson, MLP Instructional Coach (Elementary)

lagibson@greenville.k12.sc.us | 864-355-1023