1. Anchorage School District Christine Garbe Supervisor, English Language Learners

2. Presentation This presentation was a collaborative effort among the Superintendent’s Office, Title I, the English Language Learner Program and staff at Williwaw Elementary School

3. Anchorage Facts Anchorage has 1/2 the population of the entire state State capital, Juneau not accessible by road Average state teacher salary is $59,667.16 Least densely populated US state Less than 1% of Alaska land is privately owned Entire state population is 600,000, roughly same as Austin, TX

4. Anchorage School District Student population is 49,091 11% LEP 8 comprehensive high schools 10 middle schools 60 elementary schools 8 charter schools School district area is the size of Deleware- 1900 square miles

6. Alaska Schools’ Top 5 Languages (including Anchorage) Yup’ik Inupiaq Spanish Filipino Hmong

8. Top 5 languages in the ASD Spanish Hmong Samoan Filipino Yup’ik

10. Williwaw Elementary K-5 School

11. Williwaw School Information K-5, Title I School with close to 400 students Pre-school program 2 Autism Classrooms 2 Hard of hearing classrooms one preK and one primary Facility built about 10 years ago Walking school 21st Century After School Program 100% breakfast and lunch program

12. More School Information 41.8% LEP Hmong is dominant non-English language Samoan is second 12 Caucasian students out of 181 took the state test in 2009-2010 2003-2009 Made AYP only once and currently are at level 5

13. Williwaw Timeline 2008-2009 Develop the new plan

14. Restructuring/ Alternative Governance Options Option 5 was chosen which reads –5) Any other major restructuring of a school governance arrangement that makes fundamental reforms, such as significant changes in the school, staffing and governance, to improve student academic achievement and that has substantial promise of enabling the school to make AYP.

15. Description of Plan Planning team included Title I, ELL, CORE, Elementary Education, leadership coaching, and the established site leadership team at Williwaw –Reflected on school improvement plan Team attended the CGCS Bilingual conference Team looked at previously used strategies: –LEP Planning sheets –Front loading HM vocabulary –Ongoing PD –Pullout for alternative curriculum

16. Team Determinations Schoolwide approach needed Focus on vocabulary for ALL students Acquire language acquisition materials Train staff in use of materials

17. Williwaw Timeline 2008-2009 Develop the new plan 2009-2010 First Year of Imple- mentation

18. Action Buy in by all staff Dedicated 30 min ELL time-built into the master schedule Core instruction-explicit and systematic with infused SIOP Universal Screening and progress monitoring 90 minutes of Tier 1, intervention block-30 minutes-Tier 2 as well as a 30 minute ELD time Used Carousel of Ideas Kits as language acquisition materials

19. Continued RTI Model incorporated –Training in collaborative SST meetings with emphasis on strategies for ELL students ELL Coach (ARRA) Strategically placed ELL staff according to student needs

20. Example Of Master Schedule

21. Williwaw Timeline 2008-2009 Develop the new plan 2009-2010 First Year of Imple- mentation Summer 2010 Review Results

28. Williwaw Timeline 2008-2009 Develop the new plan 2009-2010 First Year of Imple- mentation Summer 2010 Review Results 2010-2011 Second year of plan

29. Second Year Implementation Elementary Newcomers’ Center Plan for sustainability Coach’s Role Professional Development –Monthly professional development

30. Williwaw Timeline 2008-2009 Develop the new plan 2009-2010 First Year of Imple- mentation Summer 2010 Review Results 2010-2011 Second year of plan Spring 2010 develop a plan for sustain- ability

31. Sustainability Built a strong team of teachers who will easily be able to bring in new teachers and work with them on strategies for ELL students Grade level meetings are developed and conversations will continue around needs and strategies PD will continue at the building level

32. Ah Ha Moments Williwaw students are surpassing the other LEP students in the district on State standardized assessments It was involved process whereby the staff embraced that the instruction presented was not working for all students-Evolution!! Collaborative efforts- WORK!

33. Key Factors for Success Uniform approach- BUY IN Collaborative support-ELL, School, Title I, extended school day, summer school Professional Development Sustainability