Title III and ESL Instructional Leads Training

Stonewall Jackson Conference Center March 11, 2014Roanoke, WV

Agenda

• Overview • Developing a Foundation in the New ELP

Standards• Exploring the ELP Standards Correspondences

and Practices • Putting the Standards into Practice• Updates and Implementation PlanRealizing the Potential - Past, Present, Future

District ELP Standards Implementation Plan

• Capacity to Implement Standards• Resources• Organize to Implement• Implementation Action Timeline• Progress Monitoring

Commonly Used Acronyms

• ESL = English as a second language• ELL (or EL) = English language learner

(English Learner)• LEP = Limited English Proficient• ELP = English Language Proficiency

County LEP count County LEP count County LEP count County LEP count

Barbour 0 Hancock 5 Mineral 6 Roane 0

Berkeley 376 Hardy 60 Mingo 0 Summers 0

Boone 1 Harrison 91 Monongalia 312 Taylor 1

Braxton 0 Jackson 1 Monroe 0 Tucker 0

Brooke 1 Jefferson 287 Morgan 16 Tyler 0

Cabell 144 Kanawha 192 Nicholas 10 Upshur 4

Calhoun 2 Lewis 10 Ohio 12 Wayne 27

Clay 1 Lincoln 1 Pendleton 4 Webster 0

Doddridge 8 Logan 7 Pocahontas 0 Wetzel 8

Fayette 9 Marion 16 Preston 0 Wirt 0

Gilmer 0 Marshall 8 Putnam 40 Wood 63

Grant 1 Mason 19 Raleigh 45 Wyoming 0

Greenbrier 38 McDowell 0 Randolph 6 Total 1879Hampshire 5 Mercer 27 Ritchie 0

WV 2013-2014 ELL Population

WV ELL Population#1 ELL Population –Berkeley County 20%#2 ELL Population – Monongalia County 16%#3 ELL Population –Jefferson 15%#4 ELL Population – Kanawha 10%

Comparison with WEST VIRGINIA

• Nationwide Top Five

– Spanish: 79%

– Vietnamese: 2%– Chinese:

2%– Hmong:

2%– Arabic:

1%

• West Virginia Top Five

– Spanish: 42%

– Arabic: 8%– Chinese (Mandarin):

7%– Vietnamese:

4%– Chinese (Cantonese):

2%

2012-2013 LEP Student Population

by LEA

Useful Questions to Consider around ELLs:

1.How many ELLs are born in the U.S/ How many are immigrants?

• Nationally: ~2/3 born in U.S.

2.What percentage are Spanish-speakers? • Nationally: ~70-80%

3.Consistent with national trends, are more LEP students found in the elementary grades rather than middle and high school?

4.What percentage of LEP students are late-entry (arriving after elementary school)?

• Nationally: Most at K-38

Updates:• WESTELL TESTING

o 3/17-4/25 – 6 weeks o Overage Materialso ALL LEP students must take WESTELL test

• USDE Title III Monitoringo 3/24 – 3/27o Berkeley County, Jefferson County, Monongalia County, RESA 4 & 6,

WVDE• WV TESOL

o 4/5 in WVU, Morgantown• WVEIS

o Data Entry

Home Language Survey Responses

How many questions comprise your county Home Language Survey (HLS)?

Top 5 Home Language Survey Questions

• What Language(s) does your child speak at home?• What was the first language your child learned to speak? • Does the student speak a language other than English? • How many years has this student attended an English-

speaking School? • Please describe the language understood by the student

(check one).a. Understands only the home language and NO English. b. Understands most of the home language and some English. c. Understands the home language and English equally. D. Understands mostly English and some of the home language.

Do you conduct any additional or clarifying follow-up to the HLS questions in order to identify students for screening?

Of the HLS questions provided above, which question most often triggers a

language screening?

• Does the student speak a language other than English?

• Is the primary or native language of the student English? Yes or no

• What language did your child learn when he/she first began to speak?

• What language does your son/daughter use most frequently at home?

Which question has the least impact on the decision to administer a language screening?

• What languages? • How many years has the student attended an English-

Speaking school?• Has the student ever lived where another language was

spoken? • What is the student’s country of origin? • If available, in what language would you prefer to

receive information from the school?• Does either parent or guardian speak a language other

than English in the home? If yes, what is that language?

Range of Accuracy in HLS in initially identifying students for Services

Lowest: 15%Highest: 100% State Average: 65%

Range of “False Positive” reported

Lowest: 0%Highest: 67%

http://ccsso.org/Documents/2014/CCSSO%20Common%20EL%20Definition%20Reprising%20the%20Home%20Language%20Survey%2001242014.pdf

Tier 1 Questions

Which language(s) does your child currently . . . a. understand? [receptive language] b. speak? [productive language]

Tier 1 Questions

Which language does your child most often use . . . a. at home . . .

i. with you? ii. with siblings? iii. with extended family members?

b. in school/educational settings (i.e., preschool; child-care)?

c. outside of school (with friends, for recreational activities)?

Which language does your child most often hear . . . a. at home . . .

i. with you? ii. with siblings? iii. with extended family members?

b. in school/educational settings (i.e., preschool; child-care)?

c. outside of school (with friends, for recreational activities)?

District ELP Standards Implementation Plan

Questions?

Robert Crawford rcrawford@access.k12.wv.usMami Itamochi mitamochi@access.k12.wv.us