ESL Classes
“My Avance
experience impacted my life forever. ... Since childhood I had wanted to be a
teacher, but because I came from a large, poor family, this seemed impossible.
When I arrived in this country, my dream seemed even more distant because I
didn’t speak English—how wrong I was! Avance
opened the doors to resources that immigrants like me could depend on. It was
at Avance that I began my first ESL and GED lessons. ... Two years ago I accomplished my goal of obtaining a bachelor’s
degree. I am now a kindergarten teacher in a DISD elementary school, and I plan
to continue studying to obtain my master’s degree.”
~ Marielena, Avance-Dallas
graduate
Avance-Dallas provides ESL
(English as a Second Language) classes to parents who graduate from our
Parent-Child Education Program and want to further their education. Through our
ESL classes:
• Low-income Spanish-speaking parents advance in
English-speaking and writing skills
• Low-income Spanish-speaking parents learn
practical life and workplace English for improving their earning power
• Participants’ children engage in free, enriched
early child care while parents attend classes
• Low-income children receive a model of
achievement in their parents at home
In
Avance-Dallas ESL classes, parents
advance themselves and their children by mastering the English language and improving
their station in life.