English Language Development Department Meeting

2018-2019 Fourth Monday each Month!

Accept the dates please

This time will be used to develop ELD Instructional expertise based on data, 

and build camaraderie and  leadership.

Instructional High Leverage Practice Focus:

Content Driven Language Learning-Language Objectives

Teacher Agency: Co-teaching

Student Agency: Student Driven ILPs

ALL DL and DL Spec Ed Teachers Access Trained by August 22

Get a Jump Start this Summer!

ALL Dual Language Teachers including Special Educators will need to become certified to administer the 

ACCESS Test for 2018-2019.  

The training is online, on your own time, and will be compensated 3 hours!

Please look for an individual email with your login and password. 

The training window opens July 1st and the expectation is completion by August 22.  

More direction will come via email

Science Notebooks 5K-5th

Please prepare or request a composition book for Science/BUFS next year.

STAR Reports-WINDOW CLOSES MAY 25

STAR

To retrieve reports, follow the instructions below.  I have just learned that STAR can give us access to many more reports that are under construction-but are a preview of what will be offered to us 2019-2020.  I hope to gain access to these reports and with a small group, make a greater assessment of how we will use this assessment tool moving forward.  JUST SO YOU ARE AWARE: The GLE (Grade level Equivalent) is not actually a grade level equivalent. It is in fact the median grade level of the students who ALSO tested at the same level of the student you are looking at, rather than being a report on what grade level the student is at!  You should disable the grade level Equivalent function in your diagnostic reports so that we do not misinform parents.

1. Go to Reports at the Blue Reading Assessment tab.

2.Select your school and go to Performance-Student.

3.Select your class and Then hit View Report. The trend line is based on the scaled score. The attached conversion table shows the IRL or Instructional Reading Level  that corresponds with your scaled scores by Grade  Level.

It will look like this:​​

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2018-2019 ALL DL Teachers Training for ACCESS Testing

Get a Jump Start this Summer!

ALL Dual Language Teachers including Special Educators will need to become certified to administer the 

ACCESS Test for 2018-2019.  

The training is online, on your own time, and will be compensated 3 hours!

Please look for an individual email with your login and password. 

The training window opens July 1st and the expectation is completion by August 22.  

More direction will come via email

DL Assessment Meetings grades 2-6 Next Thursday

Dual Language Assessment Meeting

Thursday May 24th 4-5PM, room 213

The purpose of this meeting is to gather Dual Language teacher voice in grades 2-6 about the purpose and use of Biliteracy Assessment.  ALL are invited to this conversation centered around what we need to know about Biliteracy development in these grades.  I hope that this meeting will be a start of the formation of a subcommittee on Dual Language Assessment targeting these grades.

Dept of Multilingual Summer Curriculum Work

(Special Thanks to Lalo, Eliana, Omar, Jadia, Jamie D, Jamie M, Lisa L, Anne Marie, Leslie, Marisa, Geidy, Liz, rachel, Maria R, Erin, Carley, Seni, Maria M and Emily H, Natalia B and Alyssa for your leadership)

ELD Curriculum Work

Beginning ESL  and Advanced ESL will be redesigned for grades 6-12.  Standards aligned thematic units with aligned texts and assessment will be available for September 2019.  Updates on the curriculum development will be made by August.

VISION update the UBD to support shifts in practices around collaboration and coteaching.

Dual Language Summer 2018 Curriculum Work

CLM Middle School Units of study are being created this summer for the Spanish Units.  Each grade (6 and 7) will offer students units 1, 3 and 5 in Spanish consistent with the elementary grades.

Units will include completed Language Workshop Planners and may include the selection of LDG texts and some planners.

CLM English Unit Launches for Language Learners in grades 2-5 are being written to include Language Objectives, tiered scaffolds for entering through bridging learners.

Biliteracy Continuum (Word Study and Language Arts) for both BUFS and CLM units across languages will start it's review with the intention of aligning the skills in the continuum's to a framework/lesson design that supports instruction.

ELD/Dual Language 1st Grade will begin the work to align to the new science units with a coherent, skills based English Development Curriculum.  

Dual Language Geometry course will be adapted for delivery and assessment in Spanish.

AP Dual Language Seminar course will be written to include syllabus, learning objectives, resources, assessment.

Dual Language Professional Development Revamp

Teaching for Biliteracy is being re-written for each of the 5 sessions.  Sessions 1-2 will be held on August 22 as an Intro.  Session 3 will be run as a TDP in October with a focus on Oracy.  Session 4 will be run as a TDP in November with a focus on Meta-Linguistic Awareness.  Session 5 will be held in January with a Focus on Teaching for Biliteracy in the Math Classroom.

*See Summer Institute sessions for specific required and elective Dual Language Experiences

Summer Institute Pathways

Elementary Dual Language Summer Institute Pathway of Required Sessions Link

Search also for the elective courses:
Teaching Math in the Multilingual Classroom Session 1 and 7
How, what, why of language objectives Session 7
Science Overviews 5K, 2-5th are optional, 1st is required
LDGs 4th and 5th grade Dual Session 7

Secondary Dual Language, ELD and World Language Summer Institute Pathway of Required Sessions Link