Newcomer Program

We welcome and value all our newcomer students and families and the assets they bring to Reynolds School District, and we want to ensure that they feel safe and supported. The challenge of integrating into their new home is compounded for newcomers who attend school, since they must learn not only how to navigate a new culture socially, but also how to function effectively in an education system and language that typically differs from their prior experience.

In K-Grade 5, specialists provide recently-arrived students with supplemental instruction that focuses more heavily on acculturation and social English in addition to ELD push-in services. Additional measures are also taken at registration to assure that recent arrivers are welcomed to the district and connected with appropriate community resources.

In Grades 9-12 we offer a four-year Newcomer program that is designed to shelter students the first two years so they can be with their peers who are also recent arrivers while still earning high school credits. After completion of their second year, students are mainstreamed with non-English learner peers and have one English language development class if they have not demonstrated English proficiency.

If interested in this program, please contact the Department of Multilingual Education Newcomer Liaisons.

Clarrisa Marin, Newcomer Liaison

503-661-7200 Ext 3427

Murielle Rodriguez, Newcomer Liaison

503-661-7200 Ext 3426