Districts with Multiple Languages: Facilitated Discussion to Explore Special Interest Group Formation

Ellen Kaje, Ph.D., Heidi LaMare, Sue Moeller, Bonnie English

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Bellevue School District – Heidi LaMareNorthshore School District – Sue MoellerSeattle School District – Bonnie EnglishShoreline School District – Ellen Kaje

Panel Discussion – CurrentMultilingual Programs

89 Languages1770 ELL students

19649 Total district population

Bellevue

501

252

16198

92

660501 Spanish 252 Chinese

161 Korean 98 Russian

92 Vietnamese 660 Other

4 Schools offering Dual Language3 Spanish1 Mandarin

All Elementary/Secondary schools have Certificated ELL Facilitators

3 Middle Schools have sheltered instruction

2 High Schools have sheltered instruction

Bellevue

All Title and LAP Schools have had GLAD Training

5 year plan for implementation of GLAD within district

SIOP at Middle and HighDistrict wide cultural competence

implementationELL Facilitator training with

Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Learners (Honigsfeld and Dove)

Bellevue

Parent Groups:ELL Advisory CommitteePAAC – Parents Action and Advisory

CouncilImpulso Escolar Latino de Bellevue

Bellevue

ELL students–1006, Total population–19,737

Northshore

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Languages Spoken – 58 totalThe six languages below account for almost 80% of all ELL students in the district. Spanish alone constitutes the language spoken by 55% of the ELL students.

Northshore

56%

6%

5%

5%

3%

2%

21%

Spanish Chinese

Russian Korean

Vietnamese Japanese

Other

Sheltered Instruction; Dual LanguageGLAD; SIOP; Fisher and FreyResearch – Collier & Thomas,

Cummins; Hakuta; Wong-Filmore:Piaget; Vygotsky; Bandura; Wood,

Burner and Ross

Northshore

Natural Leaders – ParentsYMCA, Hang Time – Community

Northshore

129 Languages5,562 ELL students49,000 Total district population

Seattle

Seattle’s Program ModelsSecondarySBOC / World SchoolProficiency Model / Collaboration

ElementaryEBOCAligned Sheltered InstructionCollaborative ModelELD Instruction vs. ELD Support

Reevaluating Our Current Elementary Models: ELD Instruction

ELD Instruction ELD SupportGoal: Develop a solid English language foundation needed to fully engage in academic situations Purpose: Teach language necessary to move from one proficiency level to the next

To ensure students have access to classroom instruction and content.

1) Uses a scope and sequence of language forms by proficiency level (and grade level). Introducing higher levels of academic language2) Alignment to core content (literacy, science, social studies, genre, etc.) to ensure students learn the language of the content. 3) Connections to schema, cultural experiences, building background, introducing vocabulary (GLAD Strategies)4) Textual analysis to understand more complex forms of academic language (grades and proficiency levels TBD)5) Oral language practice of language forms6) Phonics/Pronunciation? (intervention grades 3+)

1) Frontloading / Review of classroom teaching/content2) Making classroom instruction/content more comprehensible (GLAD strategies)3) Phonics: core curriculum grades K-2

Seattle’s Professional Development•Mainstream Teachers

•SCALE UP 100, 200 series•Building based PD (6 district

coaches)•ELD Teachers

•SCALE UP 200 Series•ELD Inquiry Meetings

•Instructional Assistants•SCALE UP 100•Bi-Annual full day PD

•Principals•Summer Leadership Institute

•Collaborative Schools•Week-long Collaborative Institute

Scaffolding Content and Academic Language in

English Using Proficiency

Levels

Cultural Connections /

SchemaRigorous

Standards-Based

Instruction

Meaningful Interaction

Academic Language

Research

Susana Dutro: EL Achieve

Creese, A. (2005a). Is this content-based language teaching? Linguistics and Education, 16, 188-204.

B. Mohan, C. Leung and C. Davison (Eds.), English as a Second Language in the Mainstream: Teaching, Learning and Identity. Boston: Pearson. deJong, E.J. & Harper, C.A. (2005). Preparing mainstream teachers for English language learners: Is being a good teacher good enough? Teacher Education Quarterly, 32(2), 101-124.

Dalton, S.D. (1998) Pedagogy Matters: Standards for Effective Teaching Practice.

Valencia, S., Stritikus, T. & Magarati, R. M. (2007). Caught in the middle: Policy and practice contexts for the education of English language learners in Washington state. Olympia, WA: Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

 

Parent organizations• Family and Community Partnerships• School Based Family Engagement

Action Teams• Family Symposium

Community organizations• Coalition for Refugees from Burma• East African Community Services• Horn of Africa Services• Refugee Women’s Alliance• Somali Community Services of Seattle.

Seattle

76 Languages (51 in ELL)600 ELL students8700 Total district population

6% ELL18% Speak another language at home

Shoreline

Elementary ELL5 schools with ELL (1.0 cert, para time)Spanish literacy after school Extended Day Kindergarten (EDK)GLAD training

Secondary ELLBoth MS, both HS with ELLELL classes and SIOP classesNative language autobiography projectSIOP training

Shoreline

ResearchEchevarria, Vogt and Short (SIOP),Dalton (5 practices), Dutro (lang dev), Gibbons (oral lang dev in classes), Biemiller & Boote, Beck & McKeown(interactive read-alouds)

Shoreline

Parent LiaisonsParent Academic Liaison (Title

I/LAP/Title III) – Korean/EnglishImmigrant Family Liaison (Title III) –

Spanish/English

Community PartnershipsCenter for Human Services, YMCA, city

Shoreline

Challenges in meeting state and federal mandates?

Greatest needs?

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WABE assistance/roleFacilitate sharing resourcesSolicit action

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