Board of Guadalupe Schools diverse group

This school board is doing many different and unusual things to meet the needs of their community. - - Donna Poisl

Education » Fundraising, oversight and filling needs are members' goals.

By Tom Harvey, The Salt Lake Tribune

Perhaps it's a bit unusual for a school board to learn Polish during one of its regular meetings. But that's what the members of the Guadalupe Schools did recently.

In fact, four members got up in front of the others in a classroom on the west side of Salt Lake City and held up various objects having to do with keeping warm in the winter as teacher Kate Diggins said the name in Polish.

The lesson served as a demonstration of how the schools can teach English to someone who has no prior experience with the language and served to help members identify with the people Guadalupe serves, said Executive Director Victoria Mori.
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