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ASLEI Students - Welcome to the School Interpreting Website template.

 

This template lays out the structure of the School Interpreting Website for the whole of INTR 430: Introduction to School Interpreting. You will be editing this template to personalize the content to your knowledge, skills, and attitudes as an interpreter in schools, whether you are employed directly by schools (i.e., a school interpreter) or placed in schools by community-based agencies.

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You will be editing the placeholder content found throughout this template. Placeholder text is indicated by square brackets starting with the word "add" - [Add...]. The icon of an exclamation mark between two curved arrows (        ) is used to draw attention to placeholder text and other elements that need to be updated by you. You will be adding artifacts from assignments and your original and reflective narrations about the artifacts and pages. 

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This first section of the Home page (with a pale orange background) serves as an introduction to the School Interpreting Website template. During the School Interpreting Website assignment (due Week 16), you will delete this section from the page, leaving the two intended sections of the Home page. The first intended section is your introduction, which you will edit. You may be tempted to go ahead and edit it right now...Wait! Who you are at the beginning of the semester is not who you will be at the end of the semester. The second is an introduction to the School Interpreting Website as a class assignment. This section does not need editing.

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END of template introduction; Delete this section from the page!.

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          START editing for School Interpreting Website assignment (continue until "STOP editing for School Interpreting Website")

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[Add a headshot of yourself. Add a short introduction of yourself as an interpreter in schools. Potential highlights for your introduction:

  • Professional goal, connection, or background to school interpreting

  • What you bring to your work (personal and/or professional)

  • Your commitment to school interpreting and DHH learners

  • Identify what visitors to your website will learn about you.

  • Etc.​

STOP editing for School Interpreting Website

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About this School Interpreting Website
 

The School Interpreting Website is a cumulative, integrative learning experience in which the creator demonstrates their achievement of the School Interpreting Series Competencies by showcasing themselves as a systems-thinking interpreter prepared to work in K–12 educational settings. This website serves as the capstone assignment in INTR 430: Introduction to School Interpreting, a course within the ASL–English Interpretation BA program at the University of Northern Colorado.

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From 2021–2025, the School Interpreting Website was maintained as part of the School Interpreting Series (INTR 430–435), under the Preparing School Interpreters (PSI) Project at the University of Northern Colorado. The PSI Project, funded by the Office of Special Education Programs [Grant H325K210024, 2021–2026], aimed to prepare highly qualified interpreters for school-based work.

The School Interpreting Series, a set of specialized courses, was designed to equip interpreters with the knowledge and skills needed to meet the unique demands of K–12 education. The School Interpreting Website, an integral part of this vision, supports future interpreters in becoming effective, collaborative, and student-centered professionals who help foster accessible, equitable learning environments for deaf and hard of hearing students through interdisciplinary and systems-thinking approaches.

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The School Interpreting Website serves multiple purposes:

  • A personal portfolio to document and showcase individualized growth and learning;

  • A resource hub offering curated tools, research, and best practices for school interpreting; and

  • A framework for reflection and skill-building aligned with the specialized demands of educational interpreting.

 

Through self-created artifacts, structured learning experiences, and real-time applications, this website contributes to the broader mission of the PSI Project: to improve outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing students by preparing interpreters who are knowledgeable, reflective, and responsive members of the educational team.

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