1. Small Schools, Big Opportunities
Caitlin Tumlinson Spanish Teacher Lakeside High School (9MFSD), WA

2. --How to make it happen in a SMALL school!--
What I’ll Cover Today
Increasing Courses Offered
Adding College in the High School (college credits)
Proficiency Testing
Competency Credits
Seal of Biliteracy
--How to make it happen in a SMALL school!--

3. Lakeside High School, Nine Mile Falls, WA
Where I teach
Lakeside High School, Nine Mile Falls, WA

4. Increasing Courses Offered
: Spanish 1 & 2, ASL 2
: Spanish 1, 2, & 3(SPAN 103)
: Spanish 1, 2, 3, & 4(SPAN 113)

5. What You Need: The approval of your principal to at least try
(12 minimum)
An ‘in’ with whoever puts together registration materials
My trusty ‘college language requirements’ list

6. What You Do: Get your principal’s approval to try
Review (and change!) registration materials
Share “College Language Requirements” with students

7. Convincing Your Principal
Educate!
-College Language Requirements
-New WA State graduation req’s (2019+)

10. Registration Materials

11. Registration Materials

12. Registration Materials

13. College Language Requirements

14. Increasing Courses Offered
Questions?

15. College in the High School
Last year added SPAN 103 (3rd quarter Spanish grammar) as 3rd year – 6 students purchased credits
This year added SPAN 113 (1st year college supplementary language and culture) as 3rd AND 4th year
We use EWU, but other colleges including SFCC and CWU offer this as an option.

16. What You Need:
$65/credit 5 credits per class

17. What You Do Ask Principal to make contact with university
Make contact with World Language University
Apply – (New teachers require Advanced-low skills or higher)
Register students– 2 forms
Teach (books, students pay directly)
Submit grades– end

18. College in the High School
Questions?

19. Proficiency Testing Testing Day on-site May each year
: tested 2 students (Spanish)
: tested 5 students (Spanish & German)
: plans to test 5-8 students (Spanish & Russian)
Used for Competency Credits & Seal of Biliteracy

20. What You Need: 4 1 3 2 6 5

21. What You Do Identify “guinea pigs”
Get permission from Principal and substitute (first year I volunteered my time at night)
Set up test day/time
Find & test computers/headsets
Contact WAFLT (Bridget) to order test codes
Collect payments, proctor, submit payments
Receive scores from WAFLT

22. Proficiency Testing
Questions?

23. Competency Credits
Allow students to receive up to 4 High School credits (in WA state)
: 2 students, 7 credits
: 4 students, 16 credits
Proficiency (lowest scoring area)
Credits earned
Novice Mid 1
Novice High 2
Intermediate Low 3
Intermediate Mid 4

24. What You Need: 1 2 3
School Board Policy

25. What You Do:
Ask Principal to present policy to school board for consideration (go with him/her!)
Ask Principal to notify you when policy is passed
Test students
Give results to recording secretary for input into CEDARS
Inform students that credits have been posted to their transcripts

26. Competency Credits
Questions?

27. Seal of Biliteracy
Seal for diploma, medal for graduation, notation on transcript
: 2 students (Spanish)
: 2 students (Spanish)
: 1 student (German)

28. What You Need: 4 1
~$130 2 3
School Board Policy

29. What You Do:
Ask Principal to present policy to school board for consideration (go with him/her!)
Ask Principal to notify you when policy is passed
Test students
Give list of students who qualify in language other than English to recording secretary, to post when they meet their English requirements as seniors
Order embosser, seals, medals and ribbons
Emboss seals
Present medals to students, put seals on diplomas.

30. Embosser

31. Seals

32. Seals– the cheap way Buy some seals (no more than 10, please)
Put them and a self-addressed, stamped envelope in a bigger envelope, and mail it to:
Caitlin Tumlinson – Spanish
5909 HWY 291
Nine Mile Falls, WA 99026
I’ll emboss and send them back!

33. Medals

34. Medal Ribbons

35. Seal of Biliteracy
Questions?

36. Small Schools, Big Opportunities
Questions?