• WELCOME TO BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    BILINGUAL & WORLD LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT


    45 Lyon Terrace  (Third Floor - ROOM 327)
    Bridgeport, CT 06604
    Phone: 203-275-1340  Fax: 203-337-0115



    Ana Sousa-Martins, Director

    Carmen Albaladejo, Program Assistant Secretary Director's Image - Ana Sousa-Martins

    Welcome to Bridgeport Public Schools Bilingual, ESL & World Language Department

    I am honored to represent the Bridgeport Public Schools as the Director of the Bilingual, ESL and World Languages Department. We are a diverse school district with approximately 3000 English Language Learners among our 20,000 students. We strive to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of all of our students. As a result, we offer a variety of Bilingual Education services and World Language courses.

    Our services include a Transitional Bilingual program, ESL classes, Dual Language programs, Native Language Tutoring and Immigrant After-School Tutoring. The World Languages offered are Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, and Mandarin Chinese.

    Our goal is to cultivate bilingual. bi-literate and bi-cultural students so thst they are career and college ready.

    We are a collaborative group of educators working to continually improve our craft.

    Sincerely,
    Ana Sousa-Martins  

     
     
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    OUR VISION

    It is to be a cohesive, systematic and powerful group of 21st Century educators
     

    OUR MISSION STATEMENT

     It is our mission to provide high quality education in an actively engaging environment so that all students thrive as bilingual, bi-literate and bi-cultural  productive 21st century citizens. 
     
     
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