我們的運動委員會正在努力地為雙語認可計畫而發表他們的聲音. 請讀一下來自Encinal High School, Winnie Vien(最左邊)寫的文章. 她寫了關於我們從oakland和alameda加起來有30多個ELD學生的焦點小組呢! 好厲害哦! ~Melanie

四月16日, 我們跟Oakland High和Encinal High做了焦點小組調查. 在焦點小組裏面我們可以跟ELD學生會面同時學習他們作為ELD學生的經歷和感受. 除了簡單的問答外,我們還討論了一些話題. 每組有7個人,這樣分開小組來問我們就可以得到關於他們對學校,老師和學生等對ELD學生的不同的意見. 焦點小組使我們收集了很多可以幫助我們雙語認可的重要信息和資料. 因為我們可以跟ELD學生交流,所以我們都很明白雙語認可對ELD學生來說是如何重要的. 透過帶領焦點小組,這種方法來收集信息使我覺得這次的經驗是新鮮的因為比以往的方法有點不一樣. 能夠如此接近的跟ELD學生交流,我可以感覺到我們的運動是非常接近成功了,我們的努力是沒有白費的!

Our Campaign Committee has been working hard to raise student voice for our Seal of Biliteracy campaign! Read this post by Winnie Vien (far left), a 10th grader from Encinal High School. She wrote about our awesome focus groups, which brought in about 30 ELD students from Oakland and Alameda! WOOT! ~Melanie

On April 16, we had our focus groups with ELD students from both Oakland High and Encinal High. In our focus groups we were able to meet up with the students and learn more about their feelings as ELD students. Besides merely asking questions and then getting an answer, we were also able to have a discussion. With around 7 people in each group, we could see how there were different opinions on school and how each person had his/her own ideas on how other students and teachers saw ELD students. During our focus groups, we gathered a lot of information that would help us on our campaign for the Seal of Biliteracy. Since we were able to interact with the ELD students, we also better understood how the Seal of Biliteracy would affect the students’ experiences in ELD. Holding these focus groups, and being able to gather information this way, I felt that this was a different kind of research than what we usually would do. Having the ability to actually talk to the students who would be affected by our campaign, it made me feel like our campaign would really succeed and become a reality. Once we held our focus groups, I think our hard work really paid off!