Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Mary Jo Montenegro was our third guest speaker. She is a bilingual social worker at the Welcome Center for Cincinnati Public Schools. Mary Jo was very, very informed regarding the facts, stats and circumstances regarding the huge influx of ELL and LEP students to CPS, especially in the last 5 years. Mrs. Montenegro enlightened the class with the demographic changes and the challenges they present to school teachers and administrators. Although she had a depth of data to support her presentation, she had many interesting and compelling personal stories and antidotes regarding real families from various parts of the world that are trying to find success for their children in a Cincinnati Public Schools. A very, very good speaker that allowed for class participation as well.
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I found a lot of parallels between the experience in Cincinnati Public Schools and what we are facing in terms of changing demographics at Princeton. As may challenges as we face, it seems that CPS faces even more in terms of available resources. I was astonished to learn that while CPS uses the SIOP approach, their students are not truly "sheltered" (the "S" in SIOP).
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