Nevada ELL Program Overview:  District and School Policies  English Language Development Standards  Pre-WIDA (before )  WIDA (World Class Instructional Design and Assessment)  TESL Endorsement Practices  State  District and School NDE ELL Program Professionals: Jane Splean – Program Supervisor Kulwadee Axtell Jonathan Gibson Blakely Hume

All Nevada Districts must:  Administer the Home Language Survey and screen indicated students for ELL identification;  Administer the English Language Proficiency Assessment (ELPA) annually;  Monitor academic progress of reclassified students (2 yrs)  Utilize state determined English Language Development Standards  Provide their Immigrant student counts annually. Title III Requirements

Title III Districts must also:  Develop a viable program for instructional service;  Ensure appropriate Staff, Curricular Materials and Facilities;  Evaluate the success of the program and modify the program as needed. Note: these are Office for Civil Rights requirements for all districts – Title III does not have authority to enforce them. Title III Requirements (continued)

Pre-WIDA (before ):  Adaptation of 2003 Nevada English Language Arts (ELA) Standards ;  Completed in 2006;  Federal finding: incomplete for grades 9-12 in 2010;  Districts did not find them useful. English Language Performance (ELP) Standards

WIDA ( ):  Memorandum of understanding to use the WIDA ELD Standards beginning ;  Nevada joined WIDA in (adopted the ACCESS for ELLs Assessment);  Nevada’s Flexibility Waiver from No Child Left Behind requires implementation of WIDA ELD Standards. English Language Development (ELD) Standards

WIDA Overview:

WIDA ELD Standards are not aligned with Common Core State Standards! If they were, they would be Content Standards. WIDA ELD Standards DO correspond with Common Core State Standards! The WIDA ELD Standards emphasize Academic English that corresponds to the language functions required for students to master Content. WIDA Overview:

Performance CriteriaFeatures Discourse Level Linguistic Complexity (Quantity and variety of oral and written text) Amount of speech/written text Structure of speech/written text Variety of sentence types Sentence Level Language Forms and Conventions (Types, array, and use of language structures) Types and variety of grammatical structures Conventions, mechanics and fluency Match of language forms to purpose/perspective Word/Phrase Level Vocabulary Usage (Specificity of word or phrase choice) General, specific and technical language Multiple meanings of words and phrases Formulaic and idiomatic expressions Nuances and shades of meaning Collocations WIDA Overview:

State:  5,897 TESL Endorsed Teachers ( );  TESL Endorsements can be either for Elementary or Secondary;  Teachers hired as ESL Teachers must have a TESL Endorsement in order to be considered Highly Qualified; however,  There are no criteria for content teachers who work with ELLs to be TESL Endorsed;  Depending on District Policy, teachers receiving a TESL Endorsement can move across their pay scale. TESL Endorsement Practices

Districts: Several Districts use Title III funds to provide TESL Endorsement opportunities for their teachers Districts with more than 10 TESL Endorsements TESL Endorsement Practices DistrictTESL Endorsements Churchill27 Clark4,384 Douglas55 Elko58 Humboldt21 Lyon71 Nye53 Carson City229 Pershing10 Washoe915 State Charter Authority58