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Grande Park Elementary School’s diversity on display at diversity fair · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Grande Park Elementary School's diversity on display at diversity fair.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Eric Shelkoff. This article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by ever Litt. The
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  Speaker 1: diversity of DISC three O eight's Grande Park Elementary School
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  Speaker 1: and Plainfield is shown by the fact that about forty
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  Speaker 1: languages are spoken at the school. We have more languages
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  Speaker 1: spoken here at Grande Park Elementary than at any other
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  Speaker 1: school in the district. Grande Park Elementary School Principal Sean
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  Speaker 1: Smith said there are approximately forty different languages spoken in
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  Speaker 1: the homes. That diversity was on display on March fifth
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  Speaker 1: during the school's fourth annual Diversity Fair, part of its
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  Speaker 1: Diversity Spirit Week. It's incredible to see all the different
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  Speaker 1: backgrounds and where all of our kids and their families
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  Speaker 1: come from, he said. Smith has seen the schools diversity
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  Speaker 1: increase over the years. I've been an administrator here for
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  Speaker 1: fourteen years, and I've seen just a large shift in
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  Speaker 1: our student multi lingual population, he said. The fair is
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  Speaker 1: put on by a committee of about eight teachers partnering
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  Speaker 1: with the school's Parent Teacher Association. It's such a large
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  Speaker 1: event and requires a lot of planning and preparation. Smith
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  Speaker 1: said planning for the event starts in September. Along with booths,
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  Speaker 1: this year's fair featured performances from such student groups as
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  Speaker 1: the GPE Great Pretenders. The third grade group presented the
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  Speaker 1: play We Come From Everywhere to show the school's diversity.
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  Speaker 1: In addition, members of the Korean Performing Arts Institute of
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  Speaker 1: Chicago performed during the Diversity Fair alongside the Barraza Family,
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  Speaker 1: which performs songs from the movie Coco. Families are invited
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  Speaker 1: to participate in the Diversity Fair and highlight their culture.
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  Speaker 1: They can bring food to share with the community, or
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  Speaker 1: they can do some kind of performance. Smith said he
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  Speaker 1: is happy about the impact the school's Diversity Week is
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  Speaker 1: having on students. It's nice to see the smiles on
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  Speaker 1: our kids' faces. Smith said, they're just so happy and proud.
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  Speaker 1: They really enjoy sharing who they are.