A Line from Needs to Deeds

To align tasks with needs and goals the illustration attached may be helpful. The Saturday School Program would begin the first year with three and four year olds at the pre-kindergarten level. The program would grow to pre-kindergarten and kindergarten the second year.

The kindergarten teacher would have been trained by the pre-kindergarten teachers the first year. The kindergarten teacher would be observed by and train the first grade teacher during the second year of the program. In the second year of the program there would be only two grades: pre-kindergarten and kindergarten. The third year of the program the first grade teacher would be observed by and train the second grade teacher. In the third year of the program there would be three grades: pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and first grade.

The Saturday School program would grow year by year in a similar fashion. As the original group of four year old children advance year by year, so will the program grow, year by year, one year at a time. By thirteen years time the original children from the first year of the program will be graduating from high school. The goal of the Saturday School program would be for these children at this time to be well enough prepared in Spanish to be able to enter a Latin American or Spanish University program, as well as one in the United States.