Acronyms
Its mission is to provide an education for language learners, with long-range goals for language proficiency, strong foundations, community engagement, and collaborative success.
The aim is for all students to become bilingual, bi-literate, and culturally proficient in both the majority and partner cultures.
What is the OMLL?
Four Big Ideas that are interwoven throughout the 2020 of the WIDA ELD Standards Framework.
What are Equity, Integration, Collaboration and Functional Approach?
Sophie Ly and Fabrice Baillet
Who are the two new supervisors?
This individual is the educational leader of a school district, which serves approximately 36,000 Pre-K-12 students and employs over 5,500 staff.
Who is Dr. Gothard?
A 3-year support program to help new teaching staff achieve tenure.
What is the ESP (Educator Support Pathway)?
These are the Four Key Language Uses.
What are Narrate, Inform, Explain and Argue?
It is administered to potential English learners enrolling in Kindergarten to determine EL eligibility and is given to students who indicated a primary language other than English on the Home Language Survey.
What is the Kindergarten WIDA ACCESS Placement Test (K-WAPT)?
This office's mission is to grow capacity to interrupt systems of marginalization to support student learning and development.
What is the Office of Equity?
Sites with newcomer programming for students in EL levels 1 and 2.
What are Language Academies (LA)?
The World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment.
What is WIDA?
Its focus is to help school districts and charter schools ensure that English learners (ELs) and immigrant students attain English proficiency and meet state academic standards.
What is Title III?
St. Paul Public Schools was established on this year.
What is 1856?
A non-traditional option for earning a Minnesota teaching license. It provides an alternative process to assess the knowledge, skills and competencies of individuals seeking a license who may not have completed an approved teacher preparation program in the licensure field being sought.
What is the Licensure By Portfolio (LBP)?
Each ELP standard addresses a specific context for language acquisition and is divided into five grade level clusters.
What are PreK-K, 1-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12?
All eligible EL students in grades K-12 are given this assessment annually. The test measures EL students’ progress toward English language proficiency and readiness to exit the EL program.
What is the ACCESS for ELLs test?
These 4 languages are used for most school communication.
What are English, Spanish, Hmong and Somali.
Its purpose is for educators to set professional goals, collaborate to refine professional practices, and reflect upon their work to ensure a positive impact on student learning.
What is Teacher Development and Evaluation (TD & E)
They describe student performance in terms of the six WIDA language proficiency levels.
What are the six ELP levels as per WIDA?
This is a direct EL service by the EL teacher and content teacher through co-planning and grade-level standards-based instruction.
What is Co-teaching?
On this year St. Paul Public Schools celebrated its 150th anniversary.
What is 2006?