Congratulations to our Tennessee Graduates! |
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SeSo, Inc. had the honor of providing over 12 hours of interpretation/translation skill-building sessions to these wonderful bilingual school professionals from Tennessee. Our participants developed glossaries of terms specific to parent-teacher conferences, disciplinary hearings and special education meetings. We worked through Code of Ethics dilemmas, practiced our consecutive and simultaneous interpretation skills, and shared sight translation, note-taking and memory-building strategies.
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An additional skill-building session offered guidelines and tips to translate documents efficiently and to use formatting tools effectively. We thank school districts who invest in the professional development of their school personnel and provide them with the learning tools to support bilingual/multilingual families and educators. Congratulations to these professionals!
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Expanding our Professional Interpreter in Education Network |
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These dedicated bilingual and multilingual professionals from twelve states will soon receive a Professional Interpreter in Education Certificate from the University of Georgia. During our 30 hours together, we celebrated professional and personal accomplishments, practiced our interpretation skills, built vocabulary banks, improved our note-taking strategies, and polished our consecutive and simultaneous interpretation skills. |
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Best of all, our course graduates will soon join a supportive network of over 800 interpreters from 25 states and speakers of 14 languages who have completed 30 hours of specialized training to better serve our emergent bilingual/multilingual families and schools. Thank you to the school districts that have made our courses mandatory for bilingual school personnel collaborating as interpreters! Save your spot in our next session of the Professional Interpreter in Education course starting July 11, 2022. Our Professional Interpreter in Special Education certificate course is now full.
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Arkansas Continues to Lead the Way! |
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Congratulations to a new cohort of graduates from the Arkansas Bilingual Interpreter Credential in Education (ABICE)! These bilingual and multilingual professionals will join over 150 Spanish, Marshallese and Karen speakers in Arkansas who have received 40 hours of standardized training as interpreters in education. Their credential is recognized by the Arkansas Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education and the Arkansas Department of Education Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). We are thrilled to see this initiative grow and expand throughout the state.
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Another semester almost done and it has certainly been the hardest one yet. Pre-dissertation studies are in the approval process and I cannot wait to start analyzing data and discover common threads and themes in the world of language access and language justice in education. This journey has allowed me to interview teachers, interpreters, translators, school administrators, superintendents, and bilingual/multilingual families as they collaborate to support student achievement. The support for standardized training and a national certification process is evident and I have no doubt that we are establishing a strong framework to get it done. Our families, interpreters, translators and schools deserve nothing less. |
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Highlighting our Multicultural Strengths |
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A Parent’s Guide to English Learner Assessments
Great resource from the Migration Policy Institute. This question-and-answer document aims to help parents and other community members understand why and how emergent bilingual students take standardized tests. The accompanying glossary of key terms defines words that are used frequently in conversations about K-12 education in the United States.
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A School to Support Unaccompanied Migrant Teens
Read about Las Sierras Academy, a school in Baton Rouge open to students who have been in the United States for two years or less. Most of the students have experienced stress and 20 percent qualify as having “interrupted formal education.” Students and their families receive support beyond academics.
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Strengthening Cultural and Linguistic Bridges
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Cultural Humility: Collaborating with Bilingual/Multilingual Families and Promoting Welcoming Schools
Our virtual sessions are designed to give Educators, Parent Instructional Coordinators, Parent Liaisons, School Counselors and School Administrators, an overview of evidence-based tools to collaborate effectively with English Learner families and foster family engagement. Through highly-interactive small group activities, we discover creative ways to strengthen cultural and linguistic bridges with multicultural school communities.
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Interpretation/Translation Services
Our team of Interpreters/Translators is specifically trained to support educators and bilingual/multilingual families in early childhood and K-12 settings. We provide services in Arabic, Burmese, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Ewe, Farsi, French, Gujarati, Haitian-Creole, Hindi, Japanese, Karen, Korean, Laotian, Marshallese, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Thai, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
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Language Services Provider Seeks to Expand |
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The partnership between a professional language services provider and school district is an essential component of every educational entity serving a multilingual community. Whether your community requires translation, on-site or video remote interpreting, engaging the right language experts is crucial. Together we can foster cross-cultural communication, and ensure compliance with State mandates. At NTC Language Services, our team of native language speaking translators and interpreters are expertly trained to assist educational professionals in connecting with students and families-as we all work together to find common ground. With 25 years of experience in education, NTC Language Services understands educational culture-from the first day, to parent teacher conferences, and throughout the rest of the year. Whether it is greeting new entrants and families, shifting bus routes, last-minute updates in class scheduling, administering assessments or designing individual student services, NTC has the language experts to support your educators, students and families.
As a service provider, we earn respect and trust from our clients through excellence. To offer great service we need a team of great people. We strive to work with linguists that share our vision, values, and drive. As part of our highly rigorous recruitment process, we select the most qualified for each assignment based on our clients’ requirements, so you will always work on projects that fit your profile. If you would be interested in learning more information and joining our team of language service providers please send a resume to hiring@ntclanguageservices.com.
Please visit our website for more information: www.ntclanguageservices.com
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Ana Soler, BSW, MPH - Ph.D. in Special Education Student
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