ACCESS TESTING TIME for EL and DL

ACCESS STARTS DECEMBER 3rd!

See Shelley's email below..

Scheduling: EACH STAFF WILL INDEPENDENTLY SCHEDULE ASSESSMENT DATES!!!! (Yea!-we are finally at this place)

• Each School will get 2 Kits (Heyer and Horning will get 3 kits due to their population)
• Lynn and Molly will each have a kit for the non-Dual Schools

Reminders: All DL and ESL Teachers are trained-use your team to administer the test.

Best Practice Grades 2-12: Ratios15:1 for Listening and Speaking, 30:1 Reading and Writing

LYNN and MOLLY will do ALL Kindergarten (send them LOVE)

Principals and ESL teachers-

The ACCESS for ELLS is the annual mandatory testing of our ELL population only. The Testing Window opens Dec 3 and closes February 1. 

The attached Compliance Tool is designed to provide administrative support for those who will  administer the test. The availability of fully charged Chromebooks and dedicated space for students are both essential for successful testing. 

Principals: Please sign your name within the row for your school to indicate your awareness and intent to help organize the various requirements.   

 

Schools, working around their own conflicts, will have a little more flexibility in  scheduling their own testing this year. Our 2 itinerant ESL testers, Lynn and Molly, will assist in testing all Kinders at Dual Language Schools in the months of December and January. Headsets will be evenly distributed among schools based on testing numbers, with most schools getting 1 or 2 kits (10 per kit)  and a few with the highest testing numbers getting 3 kits. 

The website WIDA-AMS is now populated with students and accommodations can be entered.  If you have ELLS that need accommodations and need help with entering or understanding the accommodation choices, let's discuss. Materials for the lower grades (writing booklets) and Alternate ACCESS tests will be distributed at the end of November, as soon as we get them at Lindholm. Otherwise it is online, with very few exceptions. (Some paper tests are used at Alternate locations.)