A Two-Way Street for Immigrants - washingtonpost.com: Maha Abdelkader, a teacher at Bryant Woods Elementary School, stood before the roughly 100 teachers, administrators and community members. She passed around a work sheet in Arabic and began delivering a short lecture, also in Arabic.
After a few minutes, she stopped and looked around the room. 'Got it?' she asked. The room was silent.
"That's how our ELLs feel during their first week of school," she said, referring to English language learners.
The focus of Monday night's seventh annual Korean Education Seminar was to help Korean students and their parents better understand the education system. But the event also was designed to help educators better understand them.
