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Carlos Rosario School Students Share Stories of Inspirational Women

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:03:56 +0000

Carlos Rosario School students really shined during the Adult Literacy Resource Center’s Women’s History Month Essay Contest! Seven local organizations, including Carlos Rosario School, participated in the contest, now in its 16th year. Our students from Sally McElroy’s ESL 6 and Chantal Ross’s ESL 5 wrote essays. Three Rosario students were chosen as finalists, [...]

Inspiring English Teachers Worldwide

admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:58:59 +0000

Over the past four years the Carlos Rosario School has been honored to welcome more than 150 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) educators, university faculty members, teacher supervisors, and Ministry of Education officials as part of the US Department of State’s EFL Educator’s Workshop. The program is sponsored by the Office of English Language [...]

Carlos Rosario School Celebrates Black History Month

admin — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:39:26 +0000

"The cultural festivals are important because they are a good way of building a sense of personal worth and community in the school."

Don Oliver
Data Administrator

ESL Conversation Volunteers: Lending English Language Skills and an Experienced Perspective

admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:03:09 +0000

Last week eight volunteers from the River Road Unitarian Church donated their time and English language skills to the Carlos Rosario School. This active congregation has volunteered in the School’s classroom in the past and has also contributed to the scholarship fund that helps Carlos Rosario graduates attend area colleges and universities. The volunteers joined the [...]

Education Beyond the Classroom

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:22:02 +0000

Carlos Rosario School’s mission is to empower students to become invested, productive members of society. With support from our IT Advisory Committee members, Computer Support Specialist (CSS) students and alumni are doing just that. IT Advisory Committee members helped establish an IT Internship Fund, which allows CSS students to apply their knowledge and skills in a [...]

Celebrating the Holiday Season at Carlos Rosario School

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:43:05 +0000

On December 21st students and staff of the Carlos Rosario School presented two holiday shows. After a warm welcome from the show’s coordinators, Assistant Principal, Dr. Jorge Delgado, and Creative Arts Coordinator, Tara Villanueva, Evening Coordinator, Sharon Pan led students singing Deck the Halls. Then classes of ESL students performed traditional holiday songs against [...]

National Education Experts Head to the Classrooms at Carlos Rosario

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:16:45 +0000

Carlos Rosario School was honored to welcome eight representatives from the national Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE), a division of the United States Department of Education, on Thursday, December 15th. These education professionals travel around the country visiting exemplary programs to learn about what is working in the classroom. After a welcome presentation outlining [...]

Essential Learning: Carlos Rosario School’s Plazas Communitarias Program Showcased by Latin American Dignitaries

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:04:53 +0000

At age 23 Maxima Krahling, a native of El Salvador, moved to the United States in search of greater opportunities. Having only finished the 2nd grade in El Salvador, Maxima started taking English classes at Carlos Rosario School in 2001. In 2010, after completing ESL level 6, she enrolled in Plazas Communitarias and GED in [...]

Opening Students’ Minds to Future Opportunities: Carlos Rosario Workforce Open House

admin — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:19:06 +0000

Imagine comforting an elderly patient lying in a hospital bed. See yourself giving technical advice on today’s cutting edge technology products. Taste the satisfaction of creating menu items to be served to hundreds of diners nightly. This kind of dreaming for the future is exactly what the Carlos Rosario Workforce Department asked students to do during a [...]

Help the Homeless Walkathon Offers Carlos Rosario School Students a Chance to Give Back

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:58:43 +0000

Shortly after morning classes finished on a Friday afternoon, the school auditorium began to fill with students and staff sporting white T-shirts with a child’s colorful drawing of a house. This is the official uniform of this year’s Fannie Mae’s Help the Homeless Walkathon and these are the supporters dedicated to raising money for the [...]