Albemarle County School District

School Board
Our Division
Our Mission

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student.
Our Schools
Our Mission

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student.
Our Departments
Our Mission

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student.
For Families
Our Mission

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student.
For Students
Our Mission

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student.
For Community
Our Mission

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student.
For Staff
Our Mission

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student.
- Staff Resources

World Languages

“If you can speak another language, you open a window to a beautiful world. Each culture has so many precious things that you don’t think about until you know that language.”An Albemarle County parent and visiting scholar from China

We believe that languages are at the heart of what makes us human: expressing thoughts and ideas, making new friends, and learning about the world. Learning other languages not only helps our students to meet new people and explore new places, but being multilingual improves attention, creativity, problem solving, self-control, and organization.

In Albemarle County Public Schools, we want our students to learn and use languages in order to:

Acquire communication skills with/across multiple languages
Expand cultural understanding and responsiveness
Connect with others/other disciplines
Develop a global perspective and become a contributing member of the global community

Students in Albemarle County have the opportunity to study French, German, Latin, and/or Spanish. For more specific information, see the Language Offerings and World Languages Curriculum sections of our website.

Lauren MacLean
Assistant Director of ESOL, World Languages & Home School
(434) 296-6517