Verona
Verona, a suburb of Madison, is known for having the only public Chinese immersion school in the state, as well as recently opening a new high school.
Spanish Two-Way Immersion
This program is offered at Glacier Edge and Sugar Creek Elementary Schools and Badger Ridge Middle School.
“Two-Way Immersion (TWI) is a model of bilingual education in which children spend half of their school day learning academic content in Spanish and the other half in English to develop academic skills, language proficiency in both languages, and cross-cultural competence. The linguistic make-up of TWI classrooms consists of approximately 50% students from Spanish-speaking homes and 50% students from English-speaking homes (including homes in which a language other than Spanish is spoken).”
TWI is interchangeable for DLI.
See the website (elementary, middle) for more.
Seal of Biliteracy
Verona is one of three districts in Wisconsin to offer this program. The requirements are the same as they are in MMSD.
Less-Commonly-Taught Languages Offered at VAHS
VAHS offers Chinese and ASL
Verona Area International School (VAIS)
“Verona Area International School (VAIS), founded in 2010, is a tuition-free K-5 Chinese immersion public school option in the Verona Area School District. We follow a 50-50 instructional model, where students learn half-days in Chinese-Mandarin and half-days in English.”
See the website for more.
Click here to learn more about VAIS and other Chinese language schools in the Madison area.