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Develop Strategies for Avoiding Translation Traps

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010


Among the myriad challenges facing the nation’s school districts is the mounting costs of their multilingual communications.
Yet with over 20% of the U.S. population speaking a language other than English, ensuring that your school’s information be made available in a language your students and parents understand is critical. The high amount of information, forms and permissions that schools distribute often present a challenge to these non-native English speakers. And unfamiliarity with the American K-12 system can equally impact the ability of LEP/ELL parents to fully participate in their child’s education.

So how can schools ensure effective communications that truly reach their growing LEP populations? What can be done to keep translation quality high while staying within budget? As part of our free webinar series at K12Translate, we are offering an installment that directly addresses these issues. Titled “Avoiding Eight Translation Traps: Planning Multilingual Communication for Your District,” the webinar will take place 11:30 a.m. (PT) on April 6th and will explore a range of strategies for responding to today’s changing K12 environment.

We hope you can join us for this webinar!

Click here to register

Keep Learning!
Leslie
K12Translate

Budgeting For Education Translation

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009


Thinking Ahead…


Do you ever stop to think about how many documents your school district produces for LEP parents and ELL students in a typical school year? Whether it’s information related to NCLB, student handbooks, swine flu informative pieces, community outreach, or even your Web site, there is a lot of content that gets published in one way or another. Now, think about how much of that material you need to translate into other languages for your community’s ESL population. All of those documents really add up over the year in terms of time and money.

Over the next few posts, I want to take some time to address easy ways your school district can get a handle on making the education translation budgeting process easier and planning ahead to look at your ongoing need for translation services from your Language Service Provider.

Keep Learning!
Maggie