1. Pathway to ELPAC One district’s story Carmel Acosta-Cooper, Ed.D.
Senior Program Evaluator

2. CELDT vs ELPAC Building Background
With your neighbor review and sort the assessment descriptors
Place them on the grid based on your background knowledge of the CELDT and the ELPAC
If you don’t know, use your inferencing skills.

3. How did you do?

4. Info & Updates Out
ELPAC.org is the portal for test administration resources and
CDE ELPAC Website ( )
General Information
ELPAC Assessment Fact Sheet (CDE says no translations are planned)
ELPAC Domain Information Sheets (CDE says no translations are planned)
A Parent Guide to Understanding the ELPAC (translations available soon)
Other Resources in Spanish/Other languages
Educator Opportunities (range finding, standard setting, items alignment)
ELPAC Training of Trainer Sessions (seat allocations)
ELPAC Academy by SCOE – PD for teams that support EL instruction (includes a session on how to develop formative/interim assessments related to the ELPAC task types.

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13. District Activities operated on these basics
Task types are set within a communicative context
Assesses collaborative standards (engagement in dialogue with others)
Involves integrated tasks, students draw info from listening/reading to generate spoken or written response
The initial assessment is shorter, fewer task types
The most complex/challenging task types on the CELDT become mid-range ELPAC task types.
Listening involved playing the prompts from TOMS

14. District Activities
Informed district executives, school board, principals, site test coordinators
Provided an overview and template for beginning to communicate with teachers, parents, students for site leaders
Obtained feedback about the district ELPAC test window.
Set to run from February/March because of district testing and SBAC testing
Set up coordinator training, examiner training, training of trainers
Order sets of speakers for all sites for listening

15. “ELPAC Pioneer” Group Complement instructional team’s work
Website information
Parent, student resources
Teacher resources including ELPAC modules to support teachers in instruction (basics, connections, details, resources)
Feedback back on ELPAC-related formative assessments
RUSD has representatives on ELPAC state groups, with those same reps on the Pioneer Group

16. ELPAC Field Test Summative Assessment in March: 350 students (7 sites)
Initial Assessment in August-September: 100 students
SA students were selected by CDE (EL, EO, IFEP, RFEP)
No field test scores will be reported
IA students are grades 1, 2, 7, 9-10, 11-12

17. ELPAC Field Test
Administering and scoring the speaking domain involves more training…new tasks…more rubrics
Examiners need good handle on all of the script
New task types will be a challenge
Informational text, all domains
Integrated ELD, integrated tasks
Writing’s constructed response focus

18. Collaboration
Departments working collaboratively toward high quality instruction for EL students
Development of Formative Assessments related to ELPAC
ELPAC Academy team
District’s strengthening use of formative assessment
Types of activities include listen to a story, then retell it and reading info in a graphic organizer, then writing about it.

19. Parent Resources Family Resource Center & Assessment Center
Easy to use tools
Translating information materials
CDE’s Domain information sheets & ELPAC Fact Sheet
Other ELPAC-related materials used in the district

20. CABE ELPAC Institute 50 District, Site, Parent Reps What is the ELPAC?
Timeline, design, performance levels
ELPAC & SBAC
CELDT vs ELPAC
ELPAC Pilot
Blueprints & Task Types
Standards tested
Informing next steps

21. CABE ELPAC Institute Unpacking the ELPAC Tasks
Listening Task Types and Aligned Standards
Identified the themes across task types
e.g., exchanging info, listening actively, evaluating language choices,
expressing information, offering/supporting/justifying opinions,
reading closely literary and information text, composing literary and informational texts

22. CABE ELPAC Institute ELPAC Tasks Type Activity
What processes, skills, abilities and knowledge does the student need?
Instructional connections- What strategies already in use in the classroom /district/site?
Instructional Implications- What strategies to be implemented in the classrooms/district/site?
Next steps:  3 steps that can be taken in the next four weeks to prepare for the ELPAC
Task Title, Language Domain
ELD Standard(s)
What the examiner does
What the student does
This was a very helpful activity that the institute participants accomplished.  Needed are the task type description and the ELD standards that the task type address.

23. CABE ELPAC Institute Unpacking the ELPAC Tasks
Review the example template in the packet. 
With a partner, complete the blank portions of the reverse side
Use the info on the task type and standards sheets 
Provide a couple of answers in the blank boxes.
You do not need to be exhaustive for this activity…just a few answers will be fine.
 Share out will follow in 5 minutes

24. Calendar 2017-18 2017-18 – CELDT for Initial Assessment
September – ELPAC Initial Assessment Field Test
October – ELPAC Training of Trainers
ELPAC Examiner Trainings (district specific)
February-May 2018 – ELPAC Summative Assessment
– ELPAC for Initial and Summative Assessment

25. Some questions
How will the 4 performance level descriptors (ELPAC) connect to the 3 proficiency levels (ELD Stds)?
Will the test allocation increase?
How will TKs and K initial test takers this fall participate in ELPAC summative in 2018?
Will there be more EL students identified?
Will there be fewer reclassifications?

26. Share out
Please take a few minutes to share with the people your table about your district’s/site’s/department’s pathway to ELPAC.
After, we will go once around the room if you would like to share some highlights of table discussion with the group.

27. Contacts Carmel Acosta-Cooper, RUSD CELDT & ELPAC Coordinator
Dept. Research, Assessment & Evaluation
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Pati DeRobles, Instructional Services Specialist
- Dept. Instructional Services (English Learner)
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Michelle Mitchell, Instructional Services Specialist
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