Objective 1 To train at least 15 undergraduate students as properly certified elementary education teachers with bilingual/ESL approvals to teach in bilingual classrooms, as they persue a Bachelor's degree in education. Objective 2 To train at least 15 graduate students as properly certified elementary education teachers with bilingual/ESL approvals to teach in bilingual classrooms, as they persue a Bachelor's degree in education. Objective 3 To provide 10 experienced bilingual/ESL teachers with the opportunity to pursue a Masters' degree in Education with specialties in litearcy or curriculum design in order to support CPS's current literacy initiative and other reform initiatives, as they affect ELLs teaching and learning. Objective 4 To provide all students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate teacher training programs in Elementary Education, with a course in bilingualism and cross culutral issues in teaching and learning. To develop special activities and fieldwork experiences for studnets enrolled in this course. Objective 5 To provide the faculty who teach in the teacher training program opportunities to participate in colloquia on Second Language Acquisition and interact with well known reserachers in the field.

Update of Progress After Year 2 of Funding As we started Year 1 we already had 7 undergraduate students. We recruited 14 new students in Year 2, who are persuing elementary education certification and bilingual/ESL endorsements in the undergraduate program. All of these students have been doing clinical experiences in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) as part of their coursework. These students have taken an average of 16 semester hours during the spring semester of 1004 toward the degree. All students have progressed substantially toward their goal of becoming teachers. From the students that started Project SELLS in Year 1, 6 have graduated and of these students, all are working as teachers at CPS schools. Eight more graduated in May, 2004. At the graduate level, we recurited 6 more students in Year 2, besides the 2 that were in the program in Year 1. All of these students graduated by May 2004. Six of them will become teachers at CPS. One will be moning to Michigan where she is trying to find a teaching position, and the other one has joined the Peace Corps in Bolivia. In regards to practicing teachers in Objective 3, besides the 2 studetns from Year 1, we have recruited 4 more practicing teachers in CPS to pursue a Master's degrees in Literacy or Curriculum Design. One of the Year 1 teachers is graduating in May with a Master's degree in Educational Studies. Among the 5 non-graduating students in the program, three of them are in the Curriculum Self Designed program completing their bilingual/ESL endorsements. The other two are pursuing Master's Degrees in Literacy. All of these teachers have teken 4 - 8 credit hours per smemester and have shown substantial progress toward their degree and GRPA goals. During the 2004-05 school year, 2 courses will be offered in order to fulfill this Objective 4 - CIE 464 Bilingualism and Literacy in a Second Language - will be offered to graduate studetns in the Elementary Education program each semester, including summer. Undergraduate students in the Elementary Education program will be able to take ED 345 - Multiculturalism, Bilingualism and Diversity in Elementary Education - during the fall 2004 semester. In fulfillment of Objective 5, a colloquium on Bilingualism and Schooling has been organized which will take place on March 26, 2005 as part of a Spanish in the USA conference taking place in Chicago. Other speakers will also be invited to make presentations to faculty and students during the school year.