Outreach: New program fosters English language development, career readiness in high school students
A new program for newly arrived multilingual learners in the Clarke County School District, with support from the Mary Frances Early College of Education, strengthens newcomer high school students’ English skills, content knowledge, and career readiness.
The Center for Readiness in English and Career Education started in fall 2024 and was created by David Forker, coordinator of English learner language programs (EL, ESOL, and Title III) in Clarke County School District (CCSD) and an alumnus of the Department of Language and Literacy Education.
The program serves newly arrived high school students who are developing their language and literacy knowledge and may have experienced limited or interrupted formal education before arriving in Clarke County. Known as CRECE (pronounced ‘creh-say’), the acronym is a form of the Spanish verb ‘crecer,’ which means ‘it grows.’