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-{{hatnote|A predecessor of the [[Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School]] in St. Louis, Missouri, was also named the Smith Academy.}}
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-| name= Smith Academy of International Languages
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-| established = 1992
-| type = [[Public school (government funded)|Public]] [[magnet school]]
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-| principal = Ynez Olshausen
-| enrollment = 1083 students
-| address =  1600 Tyvola Road
-| city = [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]]
-| state = [[North Carolina]]
-| country = [[United States]]
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-| mascot = Ram
-| district = [[Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools]]
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-| website = http://schools.cms.k12.nc.us/smithMS/
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-'''Smith Academy of International Languages''' was the name of the former school which is now known as [[Waddell Language Academy]] is public K-8 [[magnet school]] (elementary and middle [[language immersion]] school combined) in [[Charlotte]], [[North Carolina]], [[United States]] and part of the [[Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools|Charlotte-Mecklenburg School (CMS)]] District. All tuition takes place in the medium of the second language.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CO&s_site=charlotte&p_multi=CO&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FFEEEA583B3443A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|work=The Charlotte Observer|title=Choice enrollment is no picnic|date=2004-01-04|accessdate=2008-01-20|last=Lyttle|first=Steve|page=4M}}</ref>    The school educates over 1,000 [[student]]s in grades K-8.<ref>[http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/nc/1291/ "Smith Language Academy"], Great Schools, ''accessed 20 January 2008</ref>
-== Languages ==
-Smith Academy offers students the unique opportunity to become fluent and literate in a second language through second language immersion instruction in Chinese, German, French, and Japanese. From the first days in Kindergarten, students are immersed in the new language. This produces students who are proficient in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in a second language. These intensive language programs are taught in the second language for all or part of the instructional day.
-Tracks using [[Chinese language|Chinese]], [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]], or [[Japanese language|Japanese]] as the [[medium of instruction]] cover kindergarten through eighth grade, while the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] immersion track covers grades six through eight. Chinese, which the school began to offer in 2006-07, was the most recently added language.<ref name="No barriers here">{{cite news|work=The Charlotte Observer|title=No barriers here; In many a language, Smith means success|last=Lyttle|first=Steve|date=2005-10-19|accessdate=2008-01-20|page=4M| url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CO&s_site=charlotte&p_multi=CO&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10D5D04877E52C70&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=The Charlotte Observer|title=Confucius Institutes spread Chinese language worldwide|date=2005-11-06|accessdate=2008-01-20|last=Johnson|first=Tim|coauthors=Alix Felsling|page=1P|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CO&s_site=charlotte&p_multi=CO&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10DBC2A012433390&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM}}</ref>  The program, in Mandarin, was taught in kindergarten and first grade and will grow a grade level each year.<ref>{{cite news|work=The Charlotte Observer|last=Coto|first=Danica|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-31692285_ITM|title=China's hot export: Its language: AS CHINA RISES, SO DOES INTEREST IN LEARNING MANDARIN AT CMS|date=2006-01-09|accessdate=2008-01-21}}</ref>
-Students recite the [[Pledge of Allegiance]] to the [[flag of the United States]] in both English and their language of instruction.<ref>{{cite news|work=The Charlotte Observer|last=Newsom|first=Mary|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-29497604_ITM|title=Was it the Spanish, or was it something else? Pledge in German or French unlikely to have raised such a ruckus|date=2007-02-03|accessdate=2008-01-20}}</ref> Immersion classes feature cultural lessons in addition to [[language education|language]] and subject teaching.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CO&s_site=charlotte&p_multi=CO&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=100191CA6FD35493&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|last=Breen-Bolling|first=Cristina|work=The Charlotte Observer|title=Foreign teachers at home in N.C.|date=2004-01-14|accessdate=2008-01-20|page=1B}}</ref>
-The school has effective relationships with universities in Germany and with the Visiting International Faculty program at the  [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]. This provides the faculty with development opportunities and resources. Overseas teachers also spend time at the school on secondment.<ref name="Goldman Sachs 2005"/>
-== Elementary School==
-From the first days in Kindergarten, students are immersed in the new language. This produces students who are proficient in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in a second language. These intensive language programs are taught in the second language for all or part of the instructional day.
-== Middle School==
-Middle School
-At the middle school level, Smith students continue to study their immersion language and can begin an accelerated course of study in a third language. Middle school students can also choose from a wide range of traditional elective courses as well as those that emphasize different languages and cultures. Middle school students also have the opportunity to participate in the same sports and extra-curricular activities available to all CMS middle school students.
-== Achievements ==
-percent of  fifth-graders scored at grade level, in 2005, on North Carolina's annual testing program despite being taught in a foreign language.<ref name="No barriers here"/> Also in 2005 the school was a runner-up in the [[Goldman Sachs]]  Foundation Prize for Excellence in International Education in the elementary and middle school category.<ref name="Goldman Sachs 2005">[http://www.internationaled.org/prizes/k8.htm "Elementary and Middle School Prize"], [[Goldman Sachs]], ''accessed 20 January 2008''</ref>
-== History ==
-The foreign language immersion programs in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system were initiated in the 1990s by then superintendent Dr. John Murphy as part of district-wide magnet school offerings. The first immersion program was opened in the summer of 1992 at Bruns Avenue Elementary School.<ref>O'Brien, Gary. School in July? Kids say, It's cool![http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_multi=CO|&p_product=CO&p_theme=realcities2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_site=charlotte&s_trackval=CO&s_dispstring=(Bruns%20Avenue%20School)%20AND%20date(07/17/1992%20to%2007/18/1992)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=07/17/1992%20to%2007/18/1992)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(Bruns%20Avenue%20School)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no] The Charlotte Observer 07-18-1992 retrieved 02-18-2008.</ref> It was an early total immersion program.<ref>Curtain, Helena & Pesola, Carol Ann (1994) Languages and children: Making the match. White Plains: Longman</ref> The language of instruction was German. The first students were admitted to Kindergarten and First Grade immersion classrooms; the program grew by one grade level per school year as these original students progressed to the next grade, so that by 1996 Bruns Avenue Elementary had a K-5 total immersion program in place, with a complementary late immersion component for students entering in 2nd and 3rd grade.
-After the initial success of the Bruns Avenue program, immersion programs were set up at other schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district. An early immersion program in French was started at Reid Park Elementary in 1994.<ref>Mara, Neil. French magnet principal named.[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_multi=CO|&p_product=CO&p_theme=realcities2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_site=charlotte&s_trackval=CO&s_dispstring=(French%20magnet%20principal%20named)%20AND%20date(02/22/1994%20to%2002/22/1994)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=02/22/1994%20to%2002/22/1994)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(French%20magnet%20principal%20named)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no] The Charlotte Observer 02-22-1994 retrieved 02-18-2008.</ref> Then in 1995 a two-way Spanish immersion program was established at Collinswood Elementary and in 1996 a partial immersion program in Japanese was introduced at Sedgefield Elementary. In 1997 rising sixth grade immersion students transitioned to a partial immersion program at Smith Middle School.<ref>Mara, Neil. Schools win US grant to aid magnet programs.[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_multi=CO|&p_product=CO&p_theme=realcities2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_site=charlotte&s_trackval=CO&s_dispstring=(Schools%20win%20US%20grant%20to%20aid%20magnet%20programs)%20AND%20date(01/01/1995%20to%2012/31/1995)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=01/01/1995%20to%2012/31/1995)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(Schools%20win%20US%20grant%20to%20aid%20magnet%20programs)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no] The Charlotte Observer 07-12-1995 retrieved 02-18-2008.</ref>
-By 2001 three of the early immersion programs had combined at one site. Bruns Avenue now housed the K-5 French, German, and Japanese Immersion programs.<ref>Staff. Correction to original story no: 0108040479.[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_multi=CO|&p_product=CO&p_theme=realcities2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_site=charlotte&s_trackval=CO&s_dispstring=(Correction%20to%20original%20article%20no.%200108040479)%20AND%20date(08/01/2001%20to%2008/31/2001)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=08/01/2001%20to%2008/31/2001)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(Correction%20to%20original%20article%20no.%200108040479)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no] The Charlotte Observer 08-12-2001, retrieved 02-18-2008.</ref> In 2003 these immersion programs moved to the site of Smith Middle School and combined with the existing 6-8 partial immersion programs to become the K-8 Academy of International Languages.<ref>Lyttle, Steve. Choice Enrollment is no picnic.[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_multi=CO|&p_product=CO&p_theme=realcities2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_site=charlotte&s_trackval=CO&s_dispstring=(Choice%20enrollment%20is%20no%20picnic)%20AND%20date(01/04/2004%20to%2001/04/2004)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=01/04/2004%20to%2001/04/2004)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(Choice%20enrollment%20is%20no%20picnic)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no] The Charlotte Observer 01-04-2004 retrieved 02-18-2008.</ref>
-== Future Location and Name ==
-At the end of the 2010-2011 school year Smith will relocate to the campus currently occupied by [[E.E. Waddell High School]]. Once relocated the Academy will be known as the E.E. Waddell Language Academy.
-== References ==
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-== External links ==
-* [http://pages.cms.k12.nc.us/smith/ Official site]
-* [http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/02/16/2054991/students-celebrate-chinese-new.html# 2011 Article in the Charlotte Observer about Chinese New Year]
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-[[Category:Schools in Charlotte, North Carolina]]
-[[Category:Elementary schools in North Carolina]]
-[[Category:Middle schools in North Carolina]]
-[[Category:Language schools]]
-[[Category:Magnet schools]]
-[[Category:Immersion schools]]