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We’ve mentioned Dallas ISD’s very popular Two-Way Dual Language Spanish Immersion program before — it’s become quite the draw at many of the more than 60 schools that now offer it.

The program places native English speakers and native Spanish speakers in the same class, and together, each student learns to read, write, and speak in both languages. The goal is for each student to become bi-literate and bilingual.

It’s a concept that has gained traction because it often yields high academic achievement as well — reading scores of students involved in immersive language programs designed like Dallas ISD’s are often substantially higher than their peers.

“Over the course of a day in a two-way dual language program, students that speak and students that are learning to speak English are taught together certain subjects (such as science) in Spanish and other subjects (such as math) in English,” a press release from Dallas ISD further explained. “The classrooms aim to have a fairly even split of students who speak English and are learning to speak English.”

“These students can think like a scientist in Spanish, then turn around and solve a complicated math problem in English: it just blows you out of the water to watch,” said Cloris Rangel, the Dallas ISD Director of Bilingual Programs. “Being bilingual and bi-literate gives these students a huge leg up not just in school, but in their lives well beyond graduation.”

Dallas ISD announced this year that it would offer the program in seven more schools, bringing the total schools to 68. The new campuses are: Montessori Academy at Onesimo Hernandez, John W. Carpenter Elementary, Trinity Heights School for the Talented and Gifted, Mark Twain School for the Talented and Gifted, Frederick Douglass Elementary, Sam Houston Elementary, and Bethune Elementary.

When H.S. Thompson Elementary reopens in January 2020, it will also offer the program.

Curious to see what you can find near each of these schools? We did a little recon for you.