Welcome to: New ESOL Contact Training

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Welcome to New ESOL Contact Training
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Presenters

• Lydia Guevara, Educational Specialist
• Vivian Suarez, Educational Specialist

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Objectives

• To provide you with the training necessary to
  facilitate an ESOL program that is in compliance
  with state and national legislation.
• To prepare you to meet the needs of English
  Language Learners, their families, and their
  teachers.

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Interesting Facts
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How many English language learners are there in
the U.S.?
5,112,081 during the 2003-04 school year
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Between 1979-2003, school-age children
increased by 19.However During the same
period, the number of students speaking a
language other than English at home increased by
161.
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Broward County Demographics
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Broward County Public Schools (May 2007)
Total Student Enrollment 264,507
Total ELL Enrollment (LY LF) 33,636
52 Languages 164 Countries
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Top 20 Languages of Broward Countys ELLs

• SPANISH 14,085
• HAITIAN-CREOLE 6,487
• PORTUGUESE 915

French 321 Vietnamese
207 Chinese 199 Arabic
168 Hebrew 167 Urdu
130 Korean 92 Tagalog
81 Bengali 78
Romanian 73 Hindi
44 Jamaican Creole 44 Polish
37 Russian 37 German
32 Turkish 30 Italian
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Top 20 Countries of foreign-born ELLs in Broward
County PK-12
May 2007 Multicultural ESOL Program Services
Education
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Funding
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Funding Sources

• WFTE
• Title III, Part A

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WFTE

• Generated by active ELL (LYs)
• 1.275 rate
• Part of General Funds
• Managed by the School
• Administrator

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Title III, Part A

• English Language Acquisition
• Federal Funding under NCLB
• Per pupil allocation
• Managed by the Multicultural ESOL Program
  Services Education Dept.

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Title III

• The 2006-07 allocation was just over 3.5
  million.
• Over 2.3 million was spent on salaries (teacher
  and paraprofessional).
• The allocation has decreased over 1 million in
  the last 2 years.
• It is imperative schools identify LY students.

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Accountability
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Mandates

• No Child Left Behind
• A Plan
• META Consent Decree

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No Child Left Behind

• Requires all children to demonstrate proficiency
  in reading and mathematics by 2014.
• Addresses the needs of all children, including
  those from varying socioeconomic, ethnic and
  cultural backgrounds.

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A Plan

• All ELLs with more than 2 years in an ESOL
  program are included in the calculation of school
  grades.
• All ELLs are included in the calculation of
  learning gains regardless of the length of time
  in an ESOL program.

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Broward Adequate Yearly Progress
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The Target Is Moving
Proficiency Targets Reading Math 2002-03 thru
03-04 31 38 2004-05 37 44 2005-06 44
50 2006-07 51 56 2007-08 58 62 2013
-14 100 100
Proficient Level 3 or higher on FCAT Reading
and Math
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Testing Accommodations for ELLs

• Flexible Setting
• Flexible Scheduling
• Flexible Timing
• Limited Assistance in the
• Heritage Language
• Use of Heritage Language to
• English Dictionary

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M.E.T.A Consent Decree
What?
Who?
When?
Where?
Why?
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The M.E.T.A. Consent Decree centers on six areas
1. Identification and assessment 2. Equal
access to appropriate programming 3. Equal
access to appropriate categorical and
other programming for ELLs 4. Personnel 5.
Monitoring 6. Outcome Measures
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Crucial Requirements of the Consent Decree
EQUAL ACCESS to COMPREHENSIBLE
INSTRUCTION taught by QUALIFIED PERSONNEL
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Identification

• The Home Language Survey (found in the
  registration form) is the first step in
  identifying a potential ELL and must be completed
  for all students in grades PreK-12 entering a
  Broward County School for the first time.

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Enrollment of Foreign-Born Students and ELLs

• A social security card/number is NOT REQUIRED TO
  REGISTER A STUDENT FOR SCHOOL OR TO QUALIFY FOR
  FREE OR REDUCED BREAKFAST/LUNCH. Please make
  sure that the school registration form does not
  list a social security number as a prerequisite
  for registration. It is optional. Do not
  photocopy a students social security card.

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Enrollment of Foreign-Born Students and ELLs

• Districts should not require any evidence of U.S.
  citizenship for enrollment. School personnel
  should enroll students in school even though they
  may not have entered the U.S. legally. In
  accordance with law (Plyler V. Doe, l982 U.S.
  Supreme Court), any student who lives in any
  state, and is of compulsory school age is
  entitled to equal access to public school.
• The student need only produce evidence of
  residence in the attendance zone of the school
  district (Consent Decree, 1990).

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• Do not ask students or parents for their alien
  immigration status do not document any
  information regarding alien immigration status
  and do not ask to see their passports.
• If they volunteer the passport, it may be used
  as proof of age however, a photocopy of any
  portion of the passport cannot be made or kept as
  documentation.
• A notation can be made on the registration form
  that the students age was verified through the
  passport.

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Identification (cont.)

• IDEA Oral Proficiency Test
• IPT
• Pre-IPT
• IPT I -2nd Ed. - grades K - 6
• IPT II -2nd Ed. - grades 7 - 12
• Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, 2nd Ed.
• (Brief Form)
• K-TEA-II
• (all 4 - 12 students classified FES)

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• If the student is eligible to receive ESOL
  services, the school must inform the
  parents/guardians of their option to receive ESOL
  services at their home school, ESOL Cluster
  school (if available), or at the Nova Center
  (based on space availability).
• There should be at least one district trained
  oral
• language assessor at each school site.

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English Language Learner /Student Educational
Plan (ELL/SEP)
ELLSEP FOLDER
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ELL/SEP folder should contain

• ?Home Language Survey, which is part of student
  registration form?Aural/Oral Language
  Assessment (IPT)?Reading and Writing Test
  (K-TEA-II Brief Form) for Grades 4-12
  only?Notification Letter (in the parents
  native language) must be included if the
  Aural/Oral Language Assessment (IPT) is not
  completed within 20 days?Initial Aural/Oral
  Language Classification Assessment (Form
  2590-E, Revised 5/07)

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Exit Criteria

• IPT I - Grades 4- 6
• IPT II- Grades 7 - 12
• Results - NES or LES- Continues in ESOL Program
• Results - FES - C2
• In addition to scoring FES on the above mentioned
  aural/oral assessments, ELLs in grades 4-12 must
  be given a standardized, norm-referenced test in
  reading and writing (language) as part of the
  criteria to exit the ESOL
• Program.

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Exit Criteria

• ELL code changes to LF
• Monitored for two years
• At the end of a successful 2 years of monitoring
• ELL, code changes to LZ

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Parental Support
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What can schools do?

• Embrace cultural differences.
• Provide guidance and information about school
  policies, services and initiatives.
• Provide native language support at meetings.
• Provide school-wide documents in a language
  parents can understand.

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Help Parents build their child's English
proficiency
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Parent Involvement

• Parent Outreach Office Contact
• Yvette Fernandez
• [phone]
• Parent Leadership Council as created by Board
  Policy 1.23, adopted 11/13/01.

First Monthly Meeting on October 5, 2007
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To review before Part II

• LY and LF Rosters - Are they current?
• Do teachers know who the ELLs are and their
  language classifications?
• Do teachers have the ESOL Instructional
  Strategies Matrix?
• Is there a system in place at your school to
  identify and assess potential ELLs?
• How is ESOL Program information shared with the
  faculty?

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• PART II
• September 6, 2007
• Web Conference
• 400 -530 pm

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ESOL Leadership Team
Sayra V. Hughes, Executive Director Tania Mena,
Bilingual/ESOL Director Vicky Brioso-Saldala,
Title III Coordinator Lydia Guevara, ESOL
Educational Specialist Vivian Suarez, ESOL
Educational Specialist Andres I. Martinez,
Bilingual Assessment Specialist Yvette Fernández,
Parent Outreach Specialist
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For further information visit our website at
www.broward.k12.fl.us/esolor call 754-321-2950.