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Global Leadership Project

The Global Leadership Project has been an important aspect of the District’s academic vision for the past six years. The
focus of the initiative is to increase the number of students who graduate globally-competent with the knowledge, skills,
and disposition to investigate the world, recognize perspectives, communicate ideas, and understand and act purposefully.
For FY23, the District partnered with Participate Learning, an educational group, to further expand the Global Leadership
Project in four schools: Jupiter ES, Jupiter MS, Roosevelt MS, and Melaleuca ES.

School staff engaged in professional learning centered on teaching school and District initiatives through the lens of
global leaders. Moreover, the staff focused their school activities during the course of FY23 on ensuring students and staff
understand the global competencies: critical thinking, valuing differences, understanding of global issues, global connection,
intercultural understanding, curiosity, communication, empathy, self-awareness, and flexibility. Though all four schools
worked with Participate Learning, each school leader and staff members charted their own course that met the needs of
their students.

The success of the FY23 Global Leadership Project has been remarkable. The schools are eager to continue the work in
the upcoming year, noting that students “feel connected locally and globally” and staff are excited to “engage with the
partnership and therefore pass that learning onto our students.” Two middle schools were invited to present their global
education work at the Magnet Schools of America (MSA) conference. For the upcoming year, the initiative will continue to
grow with project-based learning.

Multicultural Education

Supporting Graduation and Post-Graduation Success
The Department of Multicultural and Migrant Education partnered with 14 high schools to support at-risk English Language
Learners (ELL) in grade 12 to help these students meet their graduation requirements. This included Atlantic HS, Boca
Raton HS, Boynton Beach HS, Forest Hill HS, Glades Central HS, Jupiter HS, Lake Worth HS, Palm Beach Gardens HS, Palm
Beach Lakes HS, Pahokee Middle High, Royal Palm Beach HS, Santaluces HS, Seminole Ridge HS, and Spanish River HS.
Participating students received instruction for the SAT and ACT with the integration of language acquisition strategies.
Scholarships were provided for ELL students who had utilized all assessment fee waivers to increase their opportunities to
meet the Florida assessment requirements.

English Language Learners and Migrant students’ graduation rates are 69.3% and 84.4%, respectively. Migrant students’
graduation rate represents a 5% improvement when compared to the graduation rate from 2019.*

Language Development and Literacy Initiatives
As an innovative way to allow ELL and non-
ELL students to acquire a second language and The first kindergarten
class participates in
access accelerated instruction, dual-language the Haitian Creole Dual
programming has been expanded to 32 schools Language program at
this past year. Six other schools finished their Rolling Green ES, which
dual-language programming planning this year: offers kindergarten
students instruction
Indian Pines ES, Lake Park ES, Polo Park MS, in both English and
Jupiter MS, Tradewinds MS, and Dr. Joaquín Haitian Creole to achieve
García HS. Also, Rolling Green ES completed proficiency in two
its first year of implementation of the Haitian languages, attain high
Creole dual-language program. This marks the academic achievement,
and develop cross-cultural
first program of its kind in the District. Lastly, competence.
Palm Springs MS became the 6th International
Spanish Academy in the District as designated by the Ministry of Spain.

*Graduation rate is lagging data.
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