LANGUAGE NEEDS IN PAJARO VALLEY SCHOOLS

Ariel Benson is an alumna of the department who graduated with a degree in Language Studies in 1986. She now works as the Language Assessment Program Specialist for the Pajaro Valley Unified School District. Ariel contacted the department to see if we could help in putting her in contact with people who might be interested in working with her office to provide language tutoring in core academic areas for some of the newly arrived students. The school district is currently looking for a tutor to work with one of their students in Mandarin. Ariel further writes:

Throughout the year we sometimes need tutors in other languages, and for this reason I was hoping to establish contact with your department for future inquiries as well. I would greatly appreciate hearing back from anyone able to assist me in immediately locating potential language tutors in Mandarin, or from anyone willing to receive requests for assistance in the future. PVUSD has a steady population of newcomers who represent a great variety of linguistic needs. Most recently I have had a request from a school site in Aptos for a language tutor in Kinyarwanda for a little first grader whose family has recently come to the area. On an ongoing basis we need assistance for students who speak only Mixteco.

If you would like to help with this important work, you can contact Ariel here.