•December 12, 2018•

By Ted Walk,
Supt. Sullivan CUSD #300

The majority of schools in Illinois offer Spanish as a foreign language course option.
For Sullivan schools, we are fortunate to have a Spanish program in which our students truly learn to speak and converse in Spanish.
Early in my teaching career I had the opportunity to travel to Costa Rica on a mission trip which a number of Sullivan students and recent Sullivan graduates also attended.
Having had Spanish in high school, I would interact with students at the orphanage we visited by going through some Spanish words for colors, numbers, and possibly body parts with varying degrees of accuracy.
Then I witnessed what our Sullivan students were doing. They were able to converse fluently. It was not snippets of vocabulary. It was not halting, broken Spanish.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.