Compliance Chronicles
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What is parent permission?
This is the “vehicle for learning”
What are the ELPS?
BTLPT
What is Bilingual Target Language Proficiency Test?
“A campus submitted parent permission paperwork with every signature except the parent’s.”
LPAC Admin
This drink has unofficially fueled public educators for decades.
What is coffee (aka Cafecito)?
This committee is responsible for identification, placement, review, and reclassification of emergent bilingual students.
What is LPAC?
The students that make up a two way dual language class.
What is EB and non-EB?
TELPAS
What is Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System?
"But the child knows English"
Who is the parent?
“In this platform, meetings rarely begin before someone asks, ‘Can you hear me?’”
What is Teams?
True or False: Parents can decline language program participation but not EB classification and TELPAS participation.
What is True?
Name two strategies that support TELPAS speaking and writing growth.
What are structured conversations, partner talk, anchor charts, word walls, sentence stems, sentence frames, word banks, etc...?
TREx
What is the Texas Records Exchange?
"The following students have a missing HLS date"
Who is the auditor?
“This machine knows when you are in a hurry and immediately stops working.”
What is the printer?
A student that has a teacher on a waiver will be coded for what alternative language method.
What is alternative ESL Language method?
Teachers should provide these to support emergent bilingual students during instruction.
What are linguistic accommodations?
CBLI
Content-based language instruction
"Excuse me, Ma'm, I need you to submit the absence form"
Who is the multilingual secretary?
The go to game for this school year
What is Loteria?
According to Chapter 89, a two-way dual language program should maintain no more than this ratio of partner-language speakers to English speakers in each classroom.
What is two-thirds to one-third?
This instructional support helps emergent bilingual students access grade-level content by temporarily providing linguistic or academic assistance that is gradually removed as independence increases.
What is scaffold?
PEIMS
What is the Public Education Information Management System?
"Have you looked at the language allocation"
Who is the elementary facilitator/coordinator?
The ML contest/competition queen of 2026
Who is Lilia?