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

2. 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

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

4. Stipend Sessions

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

6. 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 Tuesday at South Hi Elementary
December 14 Thursday at Burton Hill Elementary

7. 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 Board Conference Room

8. Certification Courses

9. 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

10. 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.

13. Instructional Accommodations

14. ELL Instructional Accommodations

15. 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

16. 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

17. TELPAS

18. 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.

19. TELPAS Spring (TEA) Dates
Jan 10 Assembling and Verifying Gr 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)

21. 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

22. Other miscellaneous

23. 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.

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

25. 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.

26. Look at the due dates. Verification Form
to: your campus specialist and
Look at the due dates.
Who signs it?

27. 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?