1. ELL Differentiation Tool: A 21st Century Resource for 21st Century Implementation
Thomas Robel
Grants, Development and Special Projects Manager
Anne Scoufalos
ESL Technical Assistance Coordinator

2. Session Goals Participants will:
Recognize the important role a statewide intermediary can play in advancing a large scale English Learner (EL) Initiative.
Learn how to leverage partner assets when developing educational resources
Understand the components of the Pennsylvania ELL Differentiation Tool and how it supports educators of ELs

3. Funding Sources:
State Contracts
Public/Private Grants
Fee-for-Service

4. Core Functions:
Statewide Intermediary
Training
Technical Assistance
Research and Evaluation
Resource Development

5. Pennsylvania Statistics EL enrollment 52,296
National Statistics
EL enrollment 4,745,918
Total enrollment 49,605,534
9.56% EL
Pennsylvania Statistics
EL enrollment 52,296
Total enrollment 1,731,588
3% EL
Source:
Source:

6. Percent Change in EL enrollment in Mid-Atlantic States between mid-1990s and (Approximately )
(Source: NCELA

7. WIDA Consortium
39 U.S. State Education Agencies belong to the WIDA Consortium representing over 1,500,000 English Language Learners

8. CSIU – PDE Partnership State Contract (2003)
Coordinate face-to-face trainings (WIDA and PDE)
Produce webinars
Facilitate project-based workgroups
Develop electronic communications
Offer statewide technical assistance

9. No Child Left Behind (2002-2015)
Pennsylvania’s ESEA Flexibility Waiver [Assurance #2] (2013):
Adopt English language proficiency standards (ELPS) that correspond to college- and career-ready standards that reflect the academic language skills necessary to access and meet the new college- and career-ready standards…
Every Student Succeeds Act (2015)
State plan will demonstrate adoption of English language proficiency standards

10. NCLB – Flexibility Waiver
Pennsylvania’s Response (ELs)
WIDA Trainings (face-to-face/online)
Dissemination of WIDA materials to LEAs
Targeted technical assistance to LEAs
Revamped PA English Language Development Standards (PA ELDS) Formative Framework

11. PA English Language Development Standards Workgroup
Charged with:
Updating the PA ELD Standards Framework to support equitable access to challenging content for Pennsylvania’s ELs.

12. How can the commonwealth make the new ELD standards functional to all educators of ELs?

13. Shifting Paradigm
Product
Process

14. Operationalizing the Paradigm Shift
Differentiation Protocol
Pennsylvania English Language Development Standards
ELL Overlays
Differentiation Tool
Moodle Course

16. Final Product

17. trobel@csc.csiu.org Anne Scoufalos ascoufalos@csc.csiu.org
Thomas Robel
Anne Scoufalos