Sometimes it can really help to pool your resources and documents within your district or sister-education organizations. If several schools within your larger district send out the same document and only the school name or phone numbers change, consider translating a document to use as a template throughout your district. Setting things like the date and the teacher’s name within square brackets and letting your LSP (Language Service Provider) know not to translate this material can be a simple way to distribute translated material throughout the system.

Education budgets are sometimes not based on the calendar year, so it can be helpful to plan your year so that some material is translated in the calendar year of 2009 and some in 2010, for example. That way you can focus your funds on the times of the year when the most documents need to be translated (for example towards the end of the school year and Fall registration of each year).

With frequently limited funds to school districts these days, any money saved or stretched is welcome! If you have any innovative ideas about how to serve the largest portion of your ELL community with efficiency, please send your ideas to me at mnickles@k12translate.com.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Keep Learning!
Maggie
K12Translate