To prepare our students for responsible citizenship, further learning, and productive employment in our nation’s modern economy CCSD offers secondary foreign languge students a four-year sequence of study. Spanish, French, German, and Japanese. Selected sites offer Chinese and Latin are offered based on student interest and staffing.

Clark County School District’s foreign language programs reflect the content standards of the Nevada Framework based on developing language proficiency through: Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities.

• Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
• Students understand and interpret written and spoken language in a variety of subjects.
• Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.

• Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied.
• Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the cultures studied.

• Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language.
• Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.