Tamil and Telugu Language School Partnership Proposal

December 3, 2020 Rockwood School District Our Proposed would like to enter into a Partnership partnership with two schools that offer students instruction in either the Telugu or Tamil language.

Both languages are used in India having approximately 70 million speakers in India and another 5 million around the world. Partnership As part of our partnership with Advantages for both schools, students will apply Rockwood to receive up to 2 credit hours Students on their transcript during their senior years, ideally in October.

Students will also apply in April of their senior year to earn a Missouri Seal of Biliteracy in either Tamil or Telugu as well. Rockwood families send their children to About the Telugu Saturday-school starting in kindergarten to not only learn their home languages and Tamil Schools but also about their home cultures. The schools are accredited and also serve as an opportunity for families to connect and maintain their traditions.

● The Telugu School, ManaBadi is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) ● The Missouri Tamil School has received accreditation from AdvancED. Rockwood’s ● All applications will be handled and processed by the World Language Proposed Process and ESOL Content Facilitator, for Transcripting currently Jeff Tamaroff.

Credits ● Mr. Tamaroff will collaborate with the Director of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment, Glenn Hancock, to develop data collection procedures, as well as the Coordinator of Information Systems, Sudha Natesan, to ensure students’ credits are properly transcripted in Infinite Campus.