Getting It Right Reference Guides for Registering Students with Non-English Names, 2nd Edition

By Jason Greenberg Motamedi, Zafreen Jaffery, Allyson Hagen, and Sun Young Yoon

Getting a student’s name right is the first step in welcoming him or her to school. Staff members who work with student-level data also know the importance of accurately and consistently recording a student’s name in order to track student data over time, match files across data sets, and make meaning from the data. For students whose home language is not English, properly recording their information can be more difficult. School personnel who register students may not be familiar with different naming conventions in languages other than English…