ESL Program Highlights of ESL Program Highlights of Changes relating to ESL and CCSS

Seal of Biliteracy NYS Seal of Biliteracy language/2012/08/new_law_makes_new_york_sec ond_.html language/2012/08/new_law_makes_new_york_sec ond_.html New York has now joined California to offer a special "seal of biliteracy" to high school graduates who demonstrate proficiency in English and at least one other language. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the legislation making it official.signed the legislation

New Bilingual Common Core Initiative New Terminology! New Language Arts Progressions: Formerly English as a Second Language Learning Standards New Home Language Arts Progressions: Formerly Native Language Arts Learning Standards

(Cont.) New Language Acquisition Levels! 5 proposed Levels of Language Progressions (Entering, Emerging, Transitioning, Expanding and Commanding) Currently 4 Levels (Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced and Proficient) These levels & terminology won't change until CR 154 is officially revised

(Cont.) New Theoretical Foundations Integration of content and language in new language development. Bilingualism is a point of departure for all language instruction and a goal for all language learners. Intended as a guide for ESL, Bilingual, and LOTE teachers to provide accessible Common Core instruction to students of various language proficiency and literacy levels.

New NYSESLAT Exam In 2013 the test levels changed to K, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, The 2013 NYSESLAT featured greater emphasis on academic and classroom contexts and new items that address the Common Core shift to reading for information. New statewide scoring rules required that the Speaking subtest must be scored by a teacher who is not the student’s teacher of English as a Second Language or English Language Arts. For the Writing subtest, all of the student responses to the constructed response questions must be scored by committees of teachers. No one teacher is to score more than approximately one-half of the constructed-response questions in a student’s Writing subtest booklet. No teacher who is a student’s teacher of English as a second language or English language arts may score any of the constructed-response questions in that student’s Writing subtest booklet.

New Replacement for the LAB-R NYSED is planning to administer a new identification test, titled the New York State Identification Test for English Language Learners (NYSITELL), to replace the Language Assessment Battery-Revised (LAB-R) as the approved means of initially identifying ELLs in New York State The NYSITELL will be provided in response to concerns from educators that the LAB-R was not sufficiently aligned with NYSESLAT and, in particular, that determinations made based on the LAB-R were not always indicative of how students would score on the NYSESLAT. In aligning the NYSESLAT and the NYSITELL, NYSED is providing educators with an initial identification assessment that will better enable educators to determine a student’s level of English proficiency and subsequently provide the appropriate instruction.

EngageNY Scaffolding Texts & Tasks for ELLs, ELA Workshop institute-materials-may ela-3-8-professional- development-day-one institute-materials-may ela-3-8-professional- development-day-one Day 1, Scaffolding Texts and Tasks for English Language Learners Module Samples Session 1: Introduction: This folder contains the turnkey materials for the introduction to the modules session for both new and returning NTI participants Session 2: Celebrating Learners' Strengths Session 3: Best Practices in the Modules Session 4 – Grades 3-5 Session 4 – Grades 6-8

EngageNY Scaffolding Texts & Tasks for ELLs, ELA Workshop institute-materials-may ela-3-8- professional-development-day-two institute-materials-may ela-3-8- professional-development-day-two Day 2, Scaffolding Texts and Tasks for English Language Learners, May 13-16, 2013 Session 1: Tiering the Tasks, not the Text Session 2: Roundtables Session 3: Increasing a Volume Reading Session 4: Increasing a Volume Reading (field session)

Possible Future Changes New Home Language Questionnaire 11.pdfhttp:// 11.pdf (Draft only) New ELL Identification Procedure ss7-11.pdfhttp:// ss7-11.pdf (Draft only) Changes to CR 154 New ESL Program Exiting Procedures