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CASLS is excited to announce an upcoming partnership with Portland Public Schools to analyze, describe, and share the details of the high-quality K-16 language program at PPS, though an ethnographic study. The immersion program at PPS is one of the best in the nation, and is visited by districts from all over the country who hope to learn from it. This study will be a qualitative ethnography that will include classroom observations; interviews with students, teachers, parents, and other stakeholders; and documentation of student work, with two purposes. The first is to document PPS practices to help sustain the program and the related UO Chinese Flagship model, and the second is to create a guide for other programs based on the PPS model.

The research team will be comprised of CASLS director Dr. Julie Sykes as Principal Investigator, CASLS Director of Research Dr. Linda Forrest, and Graduate Teaching Fellow Kathryn Carpenter. CASLS plans on publishing the results of the study in fall 2016.

We received funding for this study from the Institute of International Education (IIE) as a sub-award from the National Security Education Program (NSEP) as part of their National Flagship Language Initiative.