California Department of Education Update English Language Learner Acquisition and Development Pilot

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California Department of Education
UpdateEnglish Language Learner Acquisition and
Development Pilot Program (AB 2117) andEnglish
Learner Professional Development (SB 472 )June
5, 2008
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AB 2117 ELL Best Practices Pilot Project

• The CDE shall establish and
• administer a three-year competitive
• grant pilot project of 25,000 or more
• English language learners to be
• conducted during the 2007-08 to
• 2009-10 school years.

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The Projects Goal

• The Goal is to Identify existing best
• practices regarding topics, including
• but not limited to, curriculum,
• Instruction and staff development for
• Teaching English language learners
• and to promote academic English
• acquisition and development.

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The Projects Intent

• The intent of the pilot project is not to
• compare the effectiveness of
• instructional methods for English
• language learners (EL), but rather to
• identify practices that demonstrate
• success for ELs in achieving English
• proficiency, regardless of instructional
• setting.

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Project Funding

• Funding shall be used to
• Support or expand successful existing programs
  serving the academic needs of ELs to learn
  standards-aligned academic content
• Support ELs in acquiring proficiency in the
  English language.

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Available funding

• Selected LEAs will receive a grant of 200 per EL
  pupil, per year beginning in 2007-08 and ending
• June 30, 2010.
• These LEAs will be required to match this grant
  with an additional 200 per EL pupil, per year
  for the same period.

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Assurances

• Selected LEAs receiving a grant
• shall agree to
• The evaluation process,
• Data collection,
• Reporting requirements,
• Maintain auditable fiscal records

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Selected LEAs

• The CDE established criteria, with advice of
  an advisory committee and in consultation with
  the Office of the Secretary of Education, for
  evaluation of applicant LEAs to receive grants,
  including, but not limited to, all of the
  following

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Selected LEAs (continued)

• A diverse mix of schools, including
• those offering
• Structured English immersion
• Bilingual instruction
• Dual language immersion
• Mainstream instruction
• Enrollment of pupils of low SES and of
• varying levels of academic proficiency and
  performance as measured by the API

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Replicable Results

• The Legislatures intent is that the
• completed evaluation highlights
• successful programs of EL
• instruction that can be reasonably
• replicated and used as models for
• other schools.

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Final LEA Grantees

• Additional information on the project and a list
  of final LEA grantees is posted on the CDE Web
  site at www.cde.ca.gov/pd/te/el/ellpp.asp

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SB 472 English Learner Professional Development

• The SSPI shall provide funding to LEAs, with the
  approval of the SBE, to provide professional
  development to teachers of English learners.

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SB 472 ELPD Content

• The PD must be
• Sufficient in scope, depth, and duration to
  fully equip teachers with comprehensive
  instructional strategies using state board
  adopted instructional materials, including the
  universal access components of the SBE adopted
  programs.

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SB 472 ELPD Content

• The PD must also include
• ELD components of the SBE adopted programs,
  provide strategies to differentiate instruction
  as needed in the basic programs, including
  English language proficiency levels as measured
  by the CELDT.

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SB 472 ELPD Content

• In addition, the PD must include
• Strategies to use supplementary materials with
  the SBE adopted programs to meet the needs of
  English learners.

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SB 472 ELPD Content

• In addition, the PD shall be capable of
• delivering a thorough knowledge of the core
  academic content standards using the ELD
  standards to deliver instruction.

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SB 472 ELPD Content

• The PD shall also include instruction on
• Vocabulary development
• Writing development
• Core academic standards and ELD standards
• Analyzing achievement of ELs to improve pupil
  performance through the use of multiple
• ELD
• Early intervention techniques
• Instructional strategies to teach essential
  content

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SB 472 ELPD Eligibility

• Teachers must have completed the initial
  training, either AB 466 or SB 472, prior to
  attending the ELPD.
• Even if a teacher has completed the full 160
  hours of AB 466 or SB 472, they are still
  eligible to attend the ELPD.

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SB 472 Funding
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SB 472 ELPD Funding

• 2007-2008 FY 18.75 m
• 2008-2009 FY 25 m
• (as of May 14 revise)

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SB 472 ELPD Timeline

• Oct 2006 - SB 472 became Education Code
• Jan 2007 SBE approved emergency regs
• Feb-Mar 2007 ELPD Advisory Committee met
• Feb-Nov 2007 Regulatory process continued
• Nov 2007 SBE approved regulations
• Nov 19, 2007 Office of Administrative Law
  approved regs
• Dec 6-7, 2007 - ELPD provider informational
  meeting

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SB 472 ELPD Timeline

• Jan 2008 - SBE appointed ELPD reviewers
• Feb 2008 - Training providers began submitting
  curriculum
• Feb 2008 - First ELPD reviews
• Feb 2008 - ELPD reviewers recommend 3 training
  curricula
• Mar 2008 - SBE approves 3 training providers

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SB 472 ELPD Timeline

• Mar Apr 2008 - Additional submissions,
  resubmissions, and reviews
• Apr 2008 - ELPD reviewers recommend 6 training
  curricula for May SBE mtg
• May 2008 - ELPD reviewers recommend 4 training
  curricula for special June SBE mtg

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SB 472 ELPD Curricula and Providers

• As of June, 2008 there will be a total of
• ELPD curricula 13
• ELPD providers 28

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Contact Information

• Ellen Jensen, Administrator,
• Professional Development Unit
• [phone]
• ejensen_at_cde.ca.gov
• Roxane Fidler, Consultant,
• Professional Development Unit
• [phone]
• rfidler_at_cde.ca.gov