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Teachers, students, administrators, parents and renowned poets
and translators are excited by PIO...
“ Not only has this program given
students access to the exciting Spanish language cultural heritage
of which they are a part, it has also
reinforced my core instruction of skills and concepts. I am enthusiastic
about participating in the program in future years.”
— Karen Zapata, Teacher, Fairmount Elementary
School
San Francisco, CA, 2000-2001
“ My students genuinely enjoyed
their poetry sessions; I feel they greatly benefited from the
PIO program. It allowed students to express themselves through
poetry and learn about their own personal styles. I believe it
is an experience they will never forget.”
—
Teresa Rodríguez, Teacher, Sanchez Elementary School
San
Francisco, CA, 2000-2001
“ Poetry Inside Out offers bilingual
students an exciting revelation: translation is not only an indispensable
resource in the daily life of their families, but a rich form
of artistic expression, an entertaining puzzle of words that
they are uniquely suited to crack.”
— Letica Duarte-Trattner, 5th grade teacher,
Bryant Elementary School
San Francisco Unified, 2001-2002
“
I actually don't want this to end, and I suppose that I could find
my own material to continue this process. It has been one of the
best and most coherent elementary Spanish ‘programs’ I
have been able to teach.”
— Glenn Kenyon, 4th/5th grade teacher
at Buena Vista Elementary
San Francisco Unified, PIO Mentor
Residency, 2002-2003
“ They were very excited to read
their own poems [in print]. The translations were different for
the same poem and this lead to some good discussion of grammar
and language use. They really liked seeing their poems printed
out... If you could have seen the way their faces lit up when
students chose their poem [to translate to English], it was magical.
They really got into it and were happy to do the translating.
They are starting to realize that being bilingual is a beautiful
thing, not a social curse.”
—Alejandro Lofaso, 5th grade,
teacher, College View Elementary
Denver City Schools, PIO Mentor
Residency, 2002-2003
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