Rocklin Unified School District

The mission of the Rocklin Unified School District’s Dual Language (DL) Education is to ensure all students have equitable access to educational excellence. The Spanish Dual Language program at Quarry Trail Elementary provides rigorous, relevant, and culturally competent dual-language instruction in Spanish and English to ensure students reach high levels of academic achievement, bilingualism, biliteracy, and sociocultural competence. The Dual Language program is committed to the integration of rich opportunities for our students, families, staff, and community to experience and honor multilingualism and culture. 

Spanish Dual Language is carefully designed to support students’ learning academic standards in two languages. Language instruction is carefully integrated into all subject areas so that students are learning not only new concepts but also deepening their grasp of both English and Spanish. Spanish-speaking and English-speaking children serve as language models for each other. At Quarry Trail, the 50/50 model means that all students spend half the day learning in Spanish from a Spanish-speaking teacher and half the day learning in English from an English-speaking teacher.

 

 

The curriculum and instruction are both carefully designed to support students’ reaching high levels of academic and linguistic achievement. Students are divided between languages so that they will learn standards in their first and second languages while transferring learned skills and concepts from one language to another.

 

Dual language education provides students a host of academic, cognitive, social and emotional benefits. People who are bilingual tend to have better task planning, more flexible thinking, longer attention spans, and the ability to multitask than people who are monolingual. Being bilingual also provides the ability to see the world from more than one perspective, which is an ongoing boon in today’s globalized world.

Click here for more information on the process to enroll in the Spanish Dual Language Program at Quarry Trail Elementary.