Annual Bilingual/ESL Program Report Waxahachie ISD September 14, 2015

Identification Procedures ○Home Language Survey ○Oral Language Proficiency Test (OLPT:administered PK-12 th grade): Woodcock-Muñoz Language Survey * English * Spanish ○TEA approved, norm-referenced assessment to assess Reading and Language Arts (2 nd -12 th grade newcomers & new to WISD): ITBS ○Language Proficiency Assessment Committee (LPAC) meets to review eligibility and placement

Language Proficiency Assessment Committee (LPAC) ○ Campus committees ○ Bilingual ○ Campus Administrator ○ Bilingual Teacher ○ ESL Teacher ○ Parent of student in bilingual program ○ ESL ○ Campus Administrator ○ ESL Teacher ○ Parent of student in ESL program ○ Meetings ○ Beginning of the year: newcomers and new students to WISD ○ All LEP students prior to STAAR/EOC ○ End of the year: all LEP students to determine placement/exit

Home Language Survey ( ) LanguageNumber of Students English6992 Spanish942 Arabic6 Other languages5 Russian4 Cantonese3 German2 Farsi, Gujarati, Ibo/Igbo, Panjabi, Portuguese, Romanian, Shanghai, Vietnamese, Chinese, & Japanese 1 of each

Limited English Proficient (LEP) Elementary Student Demographics (per PEIMS snapshot: ) Bilingual ProgramESL ProgramParent DenialsTotal Marvin 6410 Clift 8715 Dunaway Felty 707 Northside Shackelford Wedgeworth Total

Limited English Proficient (LEP) Secondary Students Demographics (per PEIMS snapshot: ) CampusESL ProgramParent DenialTotal Finley47956 Howard13215 WNGA & Waxahachie High School High School of Choice 000 Global High School101 Total

Limited English Proficient (LEP) students that have exited from bilingual & ESL programs have met the following criteria: ○ TEA –approved tests that demonstrates: *oral: Woodcock-Muñoz (Fluent Eng. Speaker) *written language proficiency: TELPAS writing, Advanced High *specific language skills ○ STAAR Reading/ELA scores (state passing standards) ○ Grades

Limited English Proficient Totals per: PEIMS ‘14-’15 ○ Waxahachie ISD Limited English Proficient (LEP) Students CampusElementarySecondary Bilingual372n/a ESL9177 Exited433 Parent Denials2914

Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS) ○ Listening, speaking, reading & writing ○ Measures annual progress in English proficiency ○ Kindergarten & 1 st grade ○ Holistically rated in all areas ○ 2 nd – 12 th grades ○ Multiple-choice online reading test ○ Holistically rated student writing collections ○ Holistically rated observational assessment of listening and speaking

TELPAS Results BeginningIntermediateAdvancedAdvanced High Clift 1455 Dunaway Felty 0233 Northside 0645 Shackelford 2345 Wedgeworth Finley Howard 0258 WNGA 2256 WHS 1669 Global 0001 Total

3rd grade: LEP STAAR data: 2015 *green: Dual Language Students that took STAAR 3rd grade ReadingMet StandardAdvanced Marvin 110 Clift 520 Dunaway English: 7 Spanish: 35 English: 5 Spanish: 34 English: 1 Spanish: 6 Felty 110 Northside 211 Shackelford 430 Wedgeworth: 27 English: 1 Spanish: 26 English: 0 Spanish: 25 English: 0 Spanish: 6

4th grade:LEP STAAR data: 2015 *green: Dual Language Students that took STAAR 4th reading Met Standard Advanced 4th grade Writing Met Standard Advanced Marvin Clift Dunaway English:4 Spanish: 37 English:1 Spanish: 29 English: 0 Spanish: 5 English: 2 Spanish:38 English:0 Spanish: 24 English:0 Spanish: 1 Felty Northside Shackelford Wedgeworth English: 3 Spanish: 23 English:0 Spanish: 17 English: 0 Spanish: 4 English: 3 Spanish: 22 English:0 Spanish: 18 English: 0 Spanish: 0

5th grade: LEP STAAR data: March, 2015 *final year of late-exit bilingual program Students that took STAAR 5th grade ReadingMet StandardAdvanced Marvin n/a Clift 220 Dunaway English: 19 Spanish: 3 English: 11 Spanish: 2 English: 0 Spanish: 0 Felty 210 Northside 100 Shackelford 110 Wedgeworth: 27 English: 12 Spanish: 3 English: 1 Spanish: 2 English: 0 Spanish: 0

STAAR: Secondary, 2015 Grade level Reading Met Standard AdvancedWriting Met Standard Advanced 6th grade: th grade: Rdg: 583 Writing: th grade:

STAAR: Secondary: WNGA & WHS, 2015 Took the testMet StandardAdvanced English English 2900

Program Design & Coverage: Elementary Dual Language Enrichment Model of Bilingual Education ○ Dunaway Elementary ○ Wedgeworth Elementary

Program Design & Coverage Elementary: Dual Language Pre-KKinder1 st 2 nd 3 rd 4 th 5th DLE modelTwo-way DLETwo-way DLE One-way DLE One-way DLE One-way DLE One-way DLE StudentsMonolingual & bilingual students Bilingual students only

Dual Language: CampusGrade levelBilingual StudentsOpt-in students Dunaway Elementary Kindergarten239 Dunaway Elementary First Grade288 Wedgeworth Elementary Kindergarten3313 Wedgeworth Elementary First Grade3112 Total11542

Program Design & Coverage, Secondary ○English as a Second Language Program ○Sheltered Instruction and English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) are included in core class instruction. ○All Secondary schools (content-based and pull- out) ○ESL/ESOL 1 & 2, in addition to Language Arts classes provide linguistic and academic support

Bilingual/LEP Summer School: ○ 120 hours * June 10th-June 30, 2015 * Monday – Friday, 7:45 a.m. – 3:45 p.m. ○ 76 students: 70 bilingual students and 6 ESL students * 27 Kindergarteners * 49 First Graders ○ 5 teachers and 1 paraprofessional

CampusBilingual Certified ESL Certified Marvin13 Shack26 Wedgeworth1217 Northside13 Felty9 Clift12 Dunaway1015 Finley JH13 Howard JH17 WNGA10 WHS13 Global4 Challenge/HSOC2 BE/ESL Certifications in WISD

Professional Development: ○Dual Language teachers: *Gomez & Gomez framework specific trainings, quarterly meetings were held to debrief and share new learning from the trainings ○LPAC Training (beginning of the year from Reg. 10) ○Woodcock-Munoz administration training ○Secondary ESL teachers: *SIOP two-day training *TESOL (state ESL conference) Dual Language and ESL teachers: Bilingual ESL Association of the Metroplex (BEAM) Conference

Program Goals for ○Gomez & Gomez walkthroughs to evaluate current Dual Language models (both one-way and two-way) ○Quarterly Dual Language meetings *To collaborate and share new knowledge from G&G trainings ○Meetings with lead ESL teachers (both Junior Highs, WNGA & WHS) ○Dual Language Parent information sessions and Practical Parent Education sessions ○Verify coding of LEP students in PEIMS ○Recruit bilingual teachers ○Continue sending teachers to Region 10 ESL TExES prep courses ○Sheltered Instruction/ELPS in all core content areas PK-12th grade ○Improve Bilingual RtI processes and interventions ○Improve secondary LEP standardized test scores ○Investigate Dual Language at the Junior High with the ultimate goal of a Biliteracy Seal upon graduation from WHS

Any questions? Viana Armstrong, M.Ed. Waxahachie Independent School District Bilingual & ESL Coordinator