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- 1. Seal of Biliteracy UPDATE – FEEDBACK
- 2. RCW 28A.300.575 “The Washington state seal of biliteracy is established to recognize public high school graduates who have attained a high level of proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in one or more world languages in addition to English”
- 8. Who?
- 12. SAT Score 100+ points Biliterate Students
- 16. Key words from law School districts are encouraged…. Participating School districts…
Editor's Notes
- What is the Seal of Biliteracy?
- Honors Students Home Language Recognizes the Skill the Biliterate students have outside of classroom settings Rewards Students for gaining Functional Proficiency – Intermediate High Encourage students to increase their marketability to the 40% of Washington Jobs are tied to International Trade
- 85% of Boeing Planes built in WA shipped to Foreign Customers 6 Kaplan, Sam and Schinfeld, Eric (2012). Trade Secret: That old saw about one-third of Washington jobs being linked to import/export business is outdated, Retrieved from: http://www.seattlebusinessmag.com/article/tradesecret
- http://wcit.org/strategy/
- Foreign students studying in Washington State contribute $463 million to the state’s economy Kaplan, Sam and Schinfeld, Eric (2012). Trade Secret: That old saw about one-third of Washington jobs being linked to import/export business is outdated, Retrieved from: http://www.seattlebusinessmag.com/article/tradesecret
- Nearly $13 billion in food and agricultural products were exported through Washington ports in 2010, the third largest total in the U.S. Washington State Department of Agriculture (2012). Agriculture: A Cornerstone of Washington’s Economy. Referenced from: http://agr.wa.gov/AgInWa/
- http://www.sbe.wa.gov/graduation.php#.VI9J6CvF_To E2SSB 6552 passed in Legislative Session 2014
- Students who study a world language for just one year score an average of 38 points higher on the SATs. (Even cooler: Students who took four years of a world language showed scores that were more than a hu http://castle.eiu.edu/~eiucaa/2007-08CAA/Spring2008/04-24-08/Minutes/ResearchConc.pdfndred points higher on average.)
- MIT study http://www.phil.frb.org/research-and-data/publications/working-papers/2002/wp02-16.pdf
- The year that researchers at the University of Cambridge discovered that people who know two languages are nicer. According to the research, bilingual folks are better able to tolerate differences and find solutions to conflict.