BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Office of English Language Learners Office of English Language Learners Presentation to School Committee Dr. Esparza Assistant Superintendent for the Office of English Language Learners May 31, 2017 1
BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Office of English Language Learners English Learners in the Boston Public Schools 13% F o r m e r ELs English Language Development (ELD) Levels Non-ELs 44% 56% of all BPS students are either s L English Learners or Former E English Learners 31% Data includes BPS K0-12 students as of April 21, 2017 Aspen SIS enrollment records (includes in-district Horace Mann charters; excludes 494 student outplacements). Former ELs include students in the 4-year monitoring period and beyond. 2
BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS The Cultural & Linguistic Diversity of BPS English Learners Top 10 Countries of Origin of ELs Top 10 First Languages Data includes BPS K0-12 Spoken by students as of April 21, 2017 Aspen SIS (includes in-district ELs Horace Mann charter schools; excludes 494 student outplacements). Chinese includes speakers of Cantonese, Mandarin, and Toishanese. United States includes Puerto Rico and U.S. territories. Country of origin indicates student’s 3 birthplace.
BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Office of English Language Learners Structural Framework for OELL Programs EL Instructional Programs EL Parent Engagement Ensure instructionally sound programs, Create collaborative processes between EL including supplemental services, aligned parents, community partners and schools to promote the success of EL children and to ELD Principles, CCSS and WIDA. families through the creation of a District Advisory Committee. EL Professional Learning Newcomers Assessment Provide language proficiency Build capacity of teachers, Language assessments to identify English Acquisition Team Facilitators, school Learners and whether they need leaders, and central office staff tailored native language supports. to meet the needs of ELs, Long-Term ELs, SLIFE, ELSWD, and DL learners. Equity & Accountability Translation & Interpretation Ensure communications are translated Support schools with and ensure that and interpreted to ensure all parents district policies meet the civil rights of have meaningful access to their ELs in accordance with local, state, and student’s education and district federal requirements. policies. Our vision is to provide a culturally and linguistically responsive education with the supports needed to ensure equitable access to opportunities that promote language acquisition, bilingualism, biliteracy and lifelong learning. 4 Graphic courtesy of Presentationgo.com
BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS EL Instruction Pre-Existing State Existing State Desired State ● EL Instruction team to utilize ● EL Instruction team ● Contracted with external data collected via the 3 Cs & I launched Culturally and vendors to train teachers on Observation Protocol and Linguistically Sustaining SIOP strategies and on provide consistent training ELD Principles: 3 Cs & I English Language and feedback to teachers to Development standards improve instruction ● Provide the Seal of Biliteracy ● Provided Seal of Biliteracy ● Seal of Biliteracy not provided to all high school graduates to Muniz Academy to graduates who have demonstrated proficiency in a second language ● Establishing first Haitian ● Expand dual language Creole dual language ● BPS offers dual language programming that is reflective program in SY17-18 programs in Spanish of our students’ linguistic ● Provided existing programs backgrounds with additional Spanish curriculum ● Tailoring Math supports for ● Implemented 2-teacher ● 1-teacher instructional model students with low math skills instructional model for for SLIFE with focus on SLIFE native literacy 5
BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS EL Professional Learning Pre-Existing State Existing State Desired State ● Implement targeted RETELL ● Coordinated with DESE to ● Implemented 12 RETELL SEI sessions for bilingual provide RETELL SEI Endorsement courses for counselors and substitutes and BPS staff Endorsement courses for our provide follow-up RETELL BPS staff training ● Provided certain Professional ● Expanded stipended PLC ● Create a resource bank on the opportunities, including a Learning Opportunities for work of PLCs, for r BPS focus on Long-Term ELs BPS staff teachers and staff districtwide ● Dedicated instructional team ● Provide additional dual to provide dual language PD ● Contracted professional language training opportunities in connection with dual development training from reflective of BPS’ other vendors to support dual language experts on Haitian linguistic communities language programs Creole academic language standards and authentic literature ● Expand PD for ELSWD to ● Focused PD for ELSWD on ● Focused PD on instructional reach teachers, bilingual framework for ELSWD identification and counselors and other school ● PLC on supporting students assessment staff experiencing trauma 6
BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Office of English Language Learners Integrating Content, Connections, Comprehensibility and Interactions into Universal Design for Learning ● Combine ● ● Determine key Build connections visual/context clues concepts in language between what with verbal/written ● Design content and students are learning communication language objectives and what they know ● Control range, ● ● Choose texts and Organize lessons diversity, and materials that clarify that build on repetition of key content previous knowledge words and ● ● Use grade-level Use a variety of vocabulary curriculum groupings ● Check frequently for ● Build on previous comprehension learning 7
BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Office of English Language Learners National Professional Development Grant: EL Teaching Frames for Literacy 1 Disciplinary Discussions 2 Disciplinary Interactions 3 Acquisition of Disciplinary Language 4 Disciplinary Thinking Processes 5 Disciplinary Uses of Evidence
BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Supplemental Services for ELs Pre-Existing State Existing State Desired State ● Served 2,042 students in ● Served 2,452 students in ● Planning on serving 3,000 Before/After and Summer Before/After and Summer students in Before/After School programs School programs and Summer School programs ● No standard pre- and ● Implemented aligned pre- post- assessments across and post-assessments for ● Standardize pre-and-post all supplemental program supplemental programs in assessments across all EL sites various school sites (over summer program sites that 30% growth in language operate in partnership with acquisition) CBOs ● Collaborated with CBOs ● Launched Neighborhood to provide SLIFE students Language Intervention ● Provide dual enrollment with access to Robotics program to provide SLIFE and supplemental programming and students and their parents vocational opportunities for curriculum with support in acquiring SLIFE and other secondary academic English ELs ● Transportation not ● T-Passes provided for ● Provide school bus and provided for Summer secondary students T-Pass transportation to Programs attending EL summer students in compensatory programs services group 9
BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Newcomers Assessment and Counseling Center Pre-Existing State Existing State Desired State ● Hired testing scheduler ● Relocated to the Bolling ● Hire 4 additional testers in to ensure families’ Building for greater an effort to provide more specific language needs accessibility flexible schedules that are met meet the needs of parents ● Redesigning the native ● Created native language ● Implement revised native language assessment for assessments to identify language assessments SLIFE students to be SLIFE students standards-based and grade-based ● Implemented K1 - ● Utilized Pre-LAS for ● Adopt WIDA online KWAPT for March Kindergarten testing and screener to provide better testing of new and LAS for Gr 1-12 testing alignment of initial testing incoming K2 students with annual testing (entering SY17-18) ● Bilingual dictionaries ● NACC assessed students ● Identify EL students provided for all ELs and entering exam schools for eligible for exam school extended time for ISEE English proficiency entrance and work with examination OAG to provide EL ISEE prep sessions 10
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