Bilingual/ESL Lead Teachers Meeting Bilingual/ESL Department  November 14 & 16, 2017

Appreciation Quotes "The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving." ~ H.U. Westermayer

Gratitude Jar What are you truly grateful for? Do you express your thankfulness?"    "Just saying thank you will never repay your kindness." 

Stipend Sessions

ESL-ONLY Stipend Sessions Dates December 5 Tuesday at PDC December 7 Thursday at PDC Some changes for spring are coming

Upcoming DL Stipend Session Dates November 28 Tuesday at Bonnie Brae November 30 Thursday at Bonnie Brae December 9 Social Studies Super Saturday December 12 Tuesday at Bonnie Brae December 14 Thursday at Bonnie Brae Upcoming DL: TWO-WAY Stipend Session Dates November 30 Thursday at Walton Elementary December 5 Tuesday at South Hi Elementary December 14 Thursday at Burton Hill Elementary

ESL-ONLY & DL Trade-Off Saturday Sessions TELPAS familiarization training for the new raters December 2 Board Conference Room January 20 Board Conference Room February 10 Board Conference Room

Certification Courses

ESL-ONLY Certification Course Teachers should begin to plan to take the spring course. Reading teachers who teach ELs must be ESL certified. Region XI will give priority to ELA teachers without ESL certification. Reading teachers must be ESL certified, serving EL students, and complete 6hrs. of ESL sanctioned PL’s in order to apply for the ESL stipend. ESL certifications must be current. We have numerous first year teachers who need this certification

DL Certification Course DL Teachers who need to complete their bilingual or ESL certification should take the BTLPT at Texas A&M and ESL spring courses at Region XI. All teachers who teach ELs must be bilingual or ESL certified. ESL teachers without certification will receive special consideration at Region XI. DL teachers must be bilingual or ESL certified and serve EL students in order to apply for their Bilingual or ESL stipend. Bilingual or ESL certification must be current.

Instructional Accommodations

ELL Instructional Accommodations

Dictionary Reminder LPACs order dictionaries. Orders for ESL-ONLY are separate from DL orders. Our dictionaries are for EL students daily instruction. If the Spanish-English dictionaries are used on a daily basis, then they may be used for STAAR. We cannot buy dictionaries for testing with Title III money

STAAR: ELL Designated Supports Decision-Making Time Designated Supports available for students who meet eligibility (some new ones) and some that require TEA approval Parent Denials: those students are not eligible to receive designated supports or special provisions LPAC Guide Make assessment decisions on an individual basis and ensure routine use More information available at TEA 2017 STAAR supports http://tea.texas.gov/student.assessment/accommodations/

TELPAS

TELPAS Is Ongoing! Thank you for allowing us to come to you tonight. Thank you for allowing us to share just a bit more about our organization, including our vision and our mission. Our vision is of an educational culture that honors the gift of the human imagination and nurtures creative capacity in all. Our mission is to create and provide innovative educational programming that integrates the arts and other curricular areas.

TELPAS Spring (TEA) Dates Jan 10 Assembling and Verifying Gr. 2-12 Writing Collections course available Jan 22 Online basic training course s for new and returning 2-12 raters available (only Writing) Feb. 12 Calibration window opens for new and returning raters (only Writing) 2 opportunities; monitored setting Feb. 26/Apr.6 – TELPAS assessment window (Data verification) Composite score: 10% Listening (27 points) 10% Speaking (36 points) 30% Writing 50% Reading (37 questions)

TELPAS NEWS New Tutorials will be released in January 2018 Listening Items – the text/prompt isn’t available on the screen – click on correct answer, drop and drag, and multiple choice Speaking Items – Text for prompt is onscreen to read and in an audio file. Students may record up to 2 responses each with a 90-second duration. Speaking is scored with a 2 or 4 point rubric depending on the item type and complexity. Clusters differ for Reading vs. Listening and Speaking Delayed TELPAS Results and LPAC implications

Other miscellaneous

CAD Please review the CAD with your campus rosters. New teachers? Add names to the CAD. New assignments? Add changes to the CAD. Teacher no longer on your campus? Put a line through their name, add a note as to why. No changes, sign and “NOTE: no changes.” Return the CAD and Staff Roster to the DL Specialist.

DL Stipend Reflection Forms Support meetings for those needing help with the PL Reflection forms: Dec. 6 from 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. @ Worth Heights Elem. Library Jan. 17 from 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. @ W. J. Turner Elem. Library

DL Stipend Reflection Forms DLE Summer Conference=2 Forms, one for each day attended. Conference on the Education of Hispanics=1 Form for the day. NABE= 1 Form for each day attended. TABE= 1 Form for each day attended. BEAM= 1 Form for the day. Fall DL PLs including DLE Techno= 1 Form for each session attended. Social Studies Super Saturday= 1 Form for the day. July & Fall DLIT for new teachers to DL= 1 Form for the 3 days attended. Fall DLIT for new teachers to DL= 1 Form for the four days attended.

Look at the due dates. Verification Form Email to: your campus specialist and Laura.jimenez@fwisd.org Look at the due dates. Who signs it?

Next Meetings January 23 & 25, 2018 Take a minute and talk to each other. How are you doing? How are the students doing? What is going on at the campuses? Does anything worry you?