Annual Meeting for BilingualESL Education Program Administrators

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• Annual Meeting for Bilingual/ESL Education
  Program Administrators
• Radisson Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin
• September 23, 2008
• ONLINE APPLICATIONS
• Tolu Sanabria, Education Specialist
• Bilingual/ESL Education Program

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• Purposes of Bilingual-Bicultural Plan of Services
  and End of Year Report
• What should be included?
• What should NOT be included?
• Eligible and Non-Eligible Review
• When referring to bilingual teacher or teacher
  aide

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• Plan of Services issues from the survey
• How do you enter TBD when a position is vacant?
• Problems with entering budget items
• Issues with the Narrative one vs. various
  sections no changes?
• What can be claimed?
• Any way to speed up entry of staff data?

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• Tips
• If you have any questions, first read the Help
  screens!
• When entering dollar amounts in the budget (plan
  only), only use numeric characters
• Staff data can be imported if applications are
  done in the correct order EOY report to plan of
  following year to EOY report for that year, etc.

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• Once the EOY report has been completed, it might
  be helpful to share copies of the Student Count
  and Staff Summary with your business office as
  they prepare the final bilingual-bicultural claim
• Plan estimate while EOY Report actual
  absolute accuracy is important for the report,
  but not as important for the plan

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• The Plan Narrative
• ONLY CHANGES should be included until further
  notice but each section must include something.
  For sections with no changes, simply include
  NA or no changes
• B. Type of Program All programs must use L1 to
  support instruction. All programs serving
  Spanish speakers must be bilingual.

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• D. Parents and Parental Involvement Generally
  not understood Describe how parents are
  notified of their legal right to appeal the
  districts decision NOT to place their child in a
  bilingual-bicultural program under s.
  115.96(5)(b), Wis. Stats.

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• F. Length of School Day to be allotted for the
  Bilingual-Bicultural Program often not
  addressed Provide a description of student
  hours/periods in the program each day by
  language, ELP level, and grade grouping.

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• Bilingual/ESL Program Web Pages
• www.dpi.wi.gov/ell
• For online application/reports, click on
  Legislation and Funding, then scroll to bottom of
  page