Who We Are
High expectations.
High achievement for all.
No excuses.
Welcome to Woodcrest Spanish Immersion School! We are a vibrant Spanish Immersion community serving Spring Lake Park Schools students in grades preK-4.
Spanish Immersion for Grades K-4
Woodcrest Spanish Immersion offers the district’s elementary programming for grades K-4.
Learning Spanish
Students learn to understand, speak, read and write in Spanish, increasing fluency levels each year they are in the program.
Immersion Programming Beyond Woodcrest
Immersion opportunities for Spring Lake Park students continue at Westwood Intermediate and Middle School, and Spring Lake Park High School.
Our Teachers
WCSI teachers and support staff are bilingual in Spanish and English. Each year, WCSI also hosts interns who are young educators from Spain or Latin America.
Innovative and Personalized Learning
Each student at Woodcrest Spanish Immersion is known by name, strength, interest and need, leading to personalized student work and learning experiences.
Panther Pride
Amazing things are happening every day at Woodcrest Spanish Immersion– learn more about our Woodcrest stories and voices.
Why I’m #SLPPantherProud
Hear from our staff, students and community about the amazing things that are happening at Woodcrest every day.
![teacher smiling and working with a student]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1551388786/springlakeparkschoolsorg/no42qotblo2ex83wrsni/Laura_Johnston.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1551388786/springlakeparkschoolsorg/no42qotblo2ex83wrsni/Laura_Johnston.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1551388786/springlakeparkschoolsorg/no42qotblo2ex83wrsni/Laura_Johnston.png","width":680}])
3rd grade Looping Spanish Immersion Teacher, Woodcrest
I am #SLPPantherProud because we are a learning community that is always striving to move forward, to innovate and to learn from today in order to create a better tomorrow.
![Mayela Ruiz]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1532445288/springlakeparkschoolsorg/afc38aot9u9otf80grzg/Mayela-Ruiz.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1532445288/springlakeparkschoolsorg/afc38aot9u9otf80grzg/Mayela-Ruiz.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1532445288/springlakeparkschoolsorg/afc38aot9u9otf80grzg/Mayela-Ruiz.jpg","width":600}])
Parent, Woodcrest
La niña no solamente esta aprenderá el idioma, sino que estoy segura de que va a crecer con la seguridad de que ya pueda la idioma.
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Kindergarten teacher, Woodcrest
I am #SLPPantherProud because the Spring Lake Park School community works extremely hard and is very committed to creating the best learning experience for all of our students.
![Elizabeth Linares laughing with a student]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1532443059/springlakeparkschoolsorg/s7zkyg44bgegjcxaye5t/Elizabeth-Linares.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1532443059/springlakeparkschoolsorg/s7zkyg44bgegjcxaye5t/Elizabeth-Linares.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1532443059/springlakeparkschoolsorg/s7zkyg44bgegjcxaye5t/Elizabeth-Linares.jpg","width":600}])
Principal, Woodcrest
We have really high expectations, and so our teachers are really good at creating the conditions so that learning in two languages during the same day becomes attainable.
![Angie Dorn]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1532443024/springlakeparkschoolsorg/aybpsaq20r89rlayjlpd/Angie-Dorn.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1532443024/springlakeparkschoolsorg/aybpsaq20r89rlayjlpd/Angie-Dorn.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1532443024/springlakeparkschoolsorg/aybpsaq20r89rlayjlpd/Angie-Dorn.jpg","width":600}])
Parent, Woodcrest
They’re really becoming world class citizens by being exposed to so many different accents and so many different cultures.
News
In Other News…
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Hunger Impact Partners, a non-profit organization with the Minnesota Department of Education that promotes free healthy summer meals for kids across the state, is encouraging students and families to download the Summer Eats Minnesota mobile app.
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Spring Lake Park Schools and the National Sports Center (NSC) will be installing artificial turf on the two soccer fields near Centerview, south of 105th and east of Davenport. This is a cooperative project with NSC that will benefit our entire district and community.
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Spring Lake Park Schools held its annual retirement reception on May 21 to honor and recognize the 11 staff members who retired during the 2018-2019 school year or are retiring at the end of the school year.
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Current grade four students and their families are invited to an Open House at Westwood Intermediate and Middle School on Tuesday, May 28 from 5-6 p.m.
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Panther student-athletes Anneka Clark, Jaxon Fenn, Mason Johnson, Makenna Leik, Natalie Nusbaum, Derek Sonmore and Lauren Woodford participated in Signing Day on Wednesday, May 15 and committed to play their sport at the collegiate level.
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Spring Lake Park Schools uses Infinite Campus Parent Portal to provide online access to secure and timely information about class schedules, attendance, report cards and transcripts. On Sunday, June 30, 2019 the Campus Portal app will be removed and replaced with two mobile apps: Campus Parent and Campus Student.
