THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2010PS 86

CHILDREN FIRST NETWORK 104JO ANN BENOIT, DEPUTY NETWORK LEADER FOR INSTRUCTION

CFN 6 ELL PDEnd- of- Year Session

Agenda

8:00 am Breakfast and Networking

8:30 am Welcome, Acknowledgement, Overview of the morning

8:40am Compliance/Data Analysis/Instructional Implications

10:00am BREAK

10:15am Schools’ Promising-Best Practices/Share

11:00 am Reflections, Resources, Upcoming PD opportunities

11:30 am Q & A and feedback

Objectives

To promote and sustain the inter-network dialogue among our schools.

To reflect on our work with compliance and the instructional implications for our ELLs.

To look at the big picture in looking at data and planning for the upcoming year.

To share with and support our colleagues in the development of promising practices.

Group Norms

Equity of voiceMonitor ElectronicsActive ListeningAllow space for different perspectivesCollective responsibility for the meetings’

successConfidentialitySeek innovation

University of California at Santa Cruz Professional Development model

Compliance Issues

Where should we be in terms of compliance?

Compliance Issues

The last LAB-R submission due date was Tuesday, June 15.

Order LAB-R Forms by Friday, June 18 through http:www.surveymonkey.com/s/FallLab2010.

Only new LAB-R and SPANISH LAB-R answer sheets should be used.

LAB-R is only administered once in a student’s academic career (within the first 10 days after registration), except…

Compliance Issues

Except… with those who have tested out of either the LAB-R or NYSESLAT and “left the English Language School System (ELSS) for one or more consecutive years, your school has to immediately re-administer the LAB-R…” including conduct an interview and administer a brief writing assignment. *

Assessment memo #2 2009-2010

Compliance Issues

BESIS data entry is on until June 21, 2010.All students need to be accounted for on the

spring BESIS.The Principal’s certification will be

downloadable from June 22nd. It will be due to your Compliance and

Performance Specialist (CPS) on June 22, 23, or 24.

Compliance Issues

Periodic Assessments:- Order your P.A. (include ELL P.A.) by June

18, 2010.- The ELL P.A. is given once in the fall and once

in the spring. The test is compatible to the NYSESLAT (format, types of questions etc except with the writing-m.c., and the speaking section is omitted)

- Acuity (HELP DESK) 866-692-6550.

Compliance Issues

Summer School Title III:- Applications are due by June 21st to

oell@schools.nyc.gov. - If your site will have 100 or more ELLs and is a

host site, you are eligible to receive the summer school Title III funding.

- Host sites should fill out and submit the application in collaboration with all schools feeding into the host (summer) site.

- To be used for enrichment programs and activities.

Compliance Issues

New Language Needs Survey for PK students:

The new PK Language Needs survey does not replace the HLIS (k-12).

It can be found in 9 languages including English at

http://dfoforms.nycenet.edu/forms/ under 0NL0010.

Languages available: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Korean, Russian, Urdu and Spanish.

Compliance Issues

Parent Information for School Staff:Information and types of letters available in high incidence languages:

http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/ELL/EducatorResources/Parent+Information.htm

HLIS and Translation and Interpretation UnitELL Parent BrochureParent Survey and program selectionParent notificationsEntitlement and Continued entitlement lettersNon-entitlement/transition lettersTitle III

Compliance Issues

Language Allocation Policy/Title III/ Translation and Interpretation applications:

- LAP, T III and T &I applications are due with the CEP by June 30th (appendices 2 and 3).

- LAP worksheet and narrative are in one document.

- One document available for K-12.- LAP should describe mandated programs; T III

should describe supplemental programs and T & I should describe language services offered to parents.

Data Analysis

My school at a glance:Look at the data provided for the network schools

(Elementary/Middle School and High School Achievement Data Points)

Answer the following questions:1- How did my students do as a whole on the ELA

and Math state exams (Regents in H.S.) these last three 3 years (07-09)?

2- What is one (school-wide) practice/strategy or lack there of that you can attribute to either the score bumps or declines in 09? Why do you think so?

3- How do you predict that your school did this year and why?

Data Analysis

Looking at our ELLs:As a network, let’s guess how our students did

using the cut scores for the ELA and Math:1)In general, what was the percentage of

students who did not make the cut score?2)What percentage of current ELLs did not?3)What percentage of former ELLs did not?

Upcoming Changes in test/instruction

Think back to you administering/scoring this past NYSESLAT, what challenges did you identify for the students in the writing modality?

Upcoming Changes in test/instruction

Let’s look at the Editing/Writing mechanics (doc):

From the ELA scoring reflections:- Capitalization- Language Usage (adjectives, adverbs, verb

tenses, types of sentences etc)- Punctuation- SpellingWhat does the 2011 Grades 3-8 ELA and Math

testing Revised Test Specifications Information (memo) tell us?

Implications for our ELLsImplications for our ELLs

Implications for instruction. Implications for instruction.

Upcoming Changes in test/instruction

Break

Schools’ Promising/Best Practices

Step1: By yourself , take 5mn to fill out the blue sheet entitled “Schools’ Promising/Best Practices” template.

Step 2: After that time, take another 5-10mn to share your information with the folks at your table.

Step 3: Once you have all shared, chart the similarities that came out of your discussion around what your challenges were and how you overcame them or how you will do things differently (10mn).

Step 4: Whole group share.

REFLECTIONS

At your table, fill out the green template entitled “Reflection”.

Take 10mn to fill it out. Start with one expectation for instruction and one for compliance. Please ensure that everyone has his/her own notes when you are done, and be ready to share your entry.

Upcoming PDs

A- ELL Compliance Summer PDs: July 21 or August 18 (possibilities) – 3 hours

each day

B- Common Core Standards Orientation: July 27-29 or August 24-26 – 7 hours each day

C- N104 Instructional Support Team:July 27-29 or August 24-26 – 7 hours each dayAND August 31 and September 1 AND per

session work throughout the school year.

NEXT STEPS

From this morning’s conversation:

What is one thing that you will bring back to your school?

Contact

Jo Ann BenoitDeputy Network Leader for

Instruction 718-828-3239347-254-0243

jbenoit@schools.nyc.govhttp://cfn6jbwiki.wikispaces.com/

http://jbenoiteso.wikispaces.com/