Anne Arundel County Public Schools, MD Plaza Educativa, 27 Feb 2020

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Joe habla con Taina Compagnet, Consejera Escolar, AACPS.

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Today, a contagious talk.

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Also then welcome today. Thank you.

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We would like to talk a little about your work. What does your work consist of and what is the benefit of your work? So it is for the family. So what do you do then? Now for the good.

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Accountant I am a school counselor for the welcome office for international students and.

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When families arrive from any other country, I work with the others in the office to welcome them so that they feel comfortable knowing how the school is like It is our system,. What do students need to be successful here at school,, so.

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What does the school say, for example, normally to a magazine,? How many and what do you want to do.

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Well? We do everything from kindergarten to the last year of the grade.

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But I specialize with high school students, so specifically, what I do with them is talk about the requirements. It 's important to have good grades, and it's what.

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Have to do in high school or specifically, a high school here in Maryland, it's snowing Caroní, so it all has to do with how much English they speak and how much math they know.

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We give them exams there in the office and looking at the records that they bring from their countries to know how best to have a transition to our system and.

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Normally then, the family then arrives at the other Elysian high.

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With this, due to stress in English also.

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Sometimes yes, sometimes we don't really have everything we have students who reach level 1, which is they don't know anything they can't even say.

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There are students who reach level 1, who don't need help because they have studied English in their countries.

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Really enter as.

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Americans right, if.

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Depends on that, but most if they need some support, then they enter the classes d and they did and when they enter the schools. I also make a support group depending on the schools if they have the need specifically for things like learning.

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I, don't know how to.

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Things, for example, emotionally it is difficult. There is a cultural shock entering countries.

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Time, We don't have support and support groups for girls for boys together in classes, so they better understand what it's like to.

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Live here it's different because high school already, then the boys are older.

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Right, 14 or 15 right to enter until 20 until what is feasible. If then,.

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Already a typical day for it, what does a lukewarm consist of see that in high school well,.

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They go to classes in high school or they have four classes a day so many times if they start with the class of did or sometimes at the beginning at end of the day. But it would be like two hours of learning and improving their English and then depending on what they need each year. They take the different math classes, your social everything else.

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But the important thing is that they feel part of the community that they feel like they deserve to be there and that if they can do what they want to achieve, their goals have dreams and achieve them not just go because they are saying you have to.

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I don't and many times when they get older. Sometimes they want to work too, but it's important to teach them the importance of having an education here in this political country, it 's a.

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Football, formal education.

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With a high school diploma thinking about it, because really now, that is the basics that are needed. We also do a lot of programs to help them think further about their future. They are for all year, students when cavani, but especially what I have to do, is work with those who are newcomers, so that see that if they have the opportunity to go to university, then depending on what they want to do, they can use use many different programs in animating with.

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To achieve that goal of going to university and in.

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Your dimensions, it is, and many things with different amounts.

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The first is constant, it will be. The first issue was the academic part, right. They write everything in school, right and second part of the social or cultural part. That here.

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Is necessary to get to school then, really without.

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Lead because in the society here in the usa, I imagine that they are going to.

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This is important and to have exact.

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Exact, or at least that they know for those who arrive, They are older,.

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If they don't finish Facebook,, at least, there is still a community college,.

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So it is also so important to make the transition between high school, then that school, system, and the university so.

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That they do not drop out just because Jalisco ends. 12th grade doesn't mean it's all over there. It's really a climb. You have to keep learning then So. That's what I like, because I see students from all countries in.

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Asia, Latin America and they all want to do something. Sometimes. They don't know exactly what they want to do,, but that's the good thing about being here in our schools that give you so many opportunities. with the cat centers.

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Centers and if a boy arrives, then a girl arrives in year 2. So.

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Is then you can do it that.

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Depends because if they already bring the.

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Records- and they already have credits from their country, we can apply for For, example, I tell them if you did a good job or if you passed the classes in your country,. We can apply that so that they do not arrive here at zero,. They can start where they left off and it ends.

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So sometimes they arrive almost halfway through the year. 12 and it depends,.

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The most difficult thing would be the classes, for example, many times in other countries. They don't teach history,.

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That's what other countries study us,, but that 's, what you have more than anything, it's.

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A requisite. or because of this it would.

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Be the most difficult and besides, if they do not arrive with a higher level of English, you have to learn English and.

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The course in Spanish or your city, the advanced level, so yes of.

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Course there are many, for example, there are classes called advanced placement.

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Is also advanced is that javi program at international vakili rad, these programs offer classes in Spanish that are at a higher level and.

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Is good for those students who arrive already know how to write and.

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Continue with that, and it also helps them with the chiquihuite point.

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Then already average. So what does she have? Then I understand that in Spanish from ipiari de lippi, something then one is a language. Another hundreds of literature and culture of exact.

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Can have that selection also, so they resort addressing family, for example, who come here which one? But he admits to me that he then makes them go to.

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11 or that he arrives with a date with juices and.

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Of course, a family that is, you are coming from the beginning. You can call our office to make the appointment. We will tell you all the documents you have to bring from the schools of the vaccinations of all that we do raised.

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In vaccinations too, yes and.

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The state of maryland requires certain.

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Different ages and.

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We can talk to them if they lack something. What do.

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Give them all the resources they need there when.

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Get to the office, then they also come until they have the appointment. We give them the exams. We look for them to see everything what they need at that moment in the appointment and then.

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Send them to the schools already being in the schools if it is a school where I go to my partner. There are also some of us who go to the schools to check to see what they need. Most then.

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Going From the office, then, to another school,.

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As sit in your chair, because you have to talk to the family,, it's a formal appointment,, it 's something not me,.

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Well, read in the office,: it 's With the families,, when your students are in the schools, I work with the students specifically, for example,, my partner, Mrs. Mónica López,. She also works,, but with the parents,. So depending.

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The school and what the needs of that school are. We, also work with the people who are in the schools,, the bilingual facilitators,, the counselors,, the teachers of any teacher that they ask us,. Ask us.

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Helps help us,, we can know if we do it and.

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By appointment,, then, with your office,, how much? time I need, then for the first appointments one hour, two hours.

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Depending on how many children you have- and this is a family that knows nothing of English- the exam will be faster, but still an English exam would be like half an hour. If you don't know anything, if they know more, English delay can take or delay like two hours. Of course, each student.

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For example, I have.

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I have to present to introduce myself then with each one of these, not.

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All of them come at the same time and we have people there. We will see how we do it, but we have as they are. We are 5,656.

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The office that we may be helping few.

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People but much need to order.

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There are some community resources in the 12th school and that can be offered to families.

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Well, different schools have airtrain programs.

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And then, how can the talent title help and for the family,.

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For example,, if there are after-school programs that can help with improve learning, to read a lot a lot of what really helps families and children is to feel part of the community. So just being able to be part of a sports team also helps but many times they don't have transportation. They can't stay after school school because they don't.

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Have a profession community so.

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There are different ways we can search. There are different programs, For, the parents, too, many many families, for example,. The parents came here first and it's been five ten fifteen years without seeing their children and they send them.

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Them and that way of ] trying to be a family again is difficult. So.

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You're talking about three different communities: the community of the family, the.

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Then of the school and the community, then of society, the exact.

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One then the many schools do they have many programs to help with that. We in the offices are the commandos. There are two of us who go.

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Not enough right.

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Many many students, sorry many teachers and other workers in the schools, have their own programs too, who want to help these families, so if they don't have, we can help them to start something. It's not that we will always be there, but we can help them start something that they can. There continuing is an.

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Important job with few people and- and there is one then there bu eno, then I made a boy in the ninth year.

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You have to be if the resources are still there, seats appeared from the.

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Family I, don't know if a boy arrives.

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In the ninth year.

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And until year two then grade 12 has the resources of the office of true.

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Yes, of course, if.

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The new arrivals, if not then for the procedure and.

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Also in the parents, for example, many parents come also want to learn. English we give them. There are different programs so that they also learn English in the community.

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They are possibly already taking classes, but they want to know where to look for medical insurance or different things. They need.

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We help them in any way. We can.

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If we can't, at that time at the appointment, we can at least notify those who are working with them in the schools so that they continue with that. They know that this family needs a little more than they.

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Were 60 and there are many resources today, thanks for having come and So now, then, if you don't finish the one right now, then thank you, I hope you come back soon.

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Thank you very much.

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Dad is, this is a list of the most important things I have to do today. Dad is on your list of important things.

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The highest priority for hall of the foundation for a better life.