Middle School
DL Department Meetings
Each building will be bringing your 6-8 DL team together once a month for district and building learning. One of the goals of the department meeting is to build stronger relationships and cohesion between the teams, a feeling that you really are in it together. The department meetings will features common learning around ENIL and the continuum of Spanish taxonomy development, as well as provide time for this team to engage in other professional learning related to the implementation of GRR and TDA at your sites through the lens of multilingual, and in specific Bilingual English Learners, and their needs. If you are interested in cofacilitating these conversations with the coach, please reach out to your coach. The facilitation will require some additional responsibilities and leadership opportunities to support your growth.
Curriculum Updates
6th Math welcomes Leslie Waltz, instructional coach and support for implementation of Zearn. Thank you so much for all of the learning and participation this Spring in Preparation.
S/ELA Curriculum Update, we will meet June 15th to determine whether we will choose to pilot Spanish literacy resources, reach out if you want to see what is going on. The ELA resources are very enticing. We can expect conversations around language allocation into the future as a result of the work this team does.
6-8 Social Studies, I have communicated that we will be teaching double blocks of content in 6th grade next year, and that Social Studies will for sure be moving to Spanish. We are very hopeful that the curricular resource will pass full board. There may be additional decisions to make around language allocation in 7th and 8th-more will come after the board meeting. Expect that you will not be using any of your current resources, slideshows or tools next year and instead will have amazing access to the critical materials you previous had to search for on your own.
6-8 Science, This summer a team will be lead by Erica Yoss to build a framework for teaching science in the double block to accomplish embedded paired biliteracy (reading, writing, language study). Science will be in English in 6th grade next year. Dates for collaboration are August 5 and 12, are are paid.
Language Allocation 6th grade (and 7th and 8th at Les Paul):
Approximately 280+ minutes of instruction scheduled within the 2 Bilingual Teacher house team
30% DL Literacy-min. 90 min. (Alternating language by unit)
30% DL Science or DLSocial Studies-90 min (Alternating by unit)
20% Math instruction-60 min
10% Homeroom/Advisory-20 min
There are 30 minutes to be flexibly allocated as determined by the house.
Approximation of 50:50 Language Allocation
Secondary Unit calendar for CLM and Paired Content Literacy is here: Link
* the whole team will be supported to be accountable for following the CLM scope and sequence
(Admin, coaches and teachers)
ENIL
IN 2022-23 there are two goals that we will be achieving as a district wide department. The first is that all of our students will have a High Leverage Power Goal by the end of unit 1. This is a very attainable goal and should already be institutionalized practice within this group-unless you are new.
The second goal we will be achieving this year is ensuring each and every one of our learners is provided a conferene around their HLPG every 14-21 day, which includes, by priority:
Listening to students read (books/tools) while taking observational notes and adding points to School Pace
Changing the HLPG
Blackboard Updates:
ENIL will be linked into Literacy Course Shells
8th grade DL Literacy course shell is being finalized
TDA
Buildings will update the team on the TDA process 2022-23. The process will include Spanish TDA assessment as well as methods of evaluating English writing for biliteracy. Our team will earn an additional 2 hours of collaboration with compensation this year to deepen our collaboration around writing. More details to come!
