Chapter 1: Initial Identification, Assessment and Placement
This is how a student enrolling from another CA public school is identified as an EL or not.
What is by reviewing their data in CALPADS, the state database?
These are the number of credits of ELD coursework high school EL students can apply towards the graduation requirement of 40 credits of English.
What are 20 ELD credits?
These are the two test criteria a scholar must meet to be eligible to reclassify (RFEP, no longer an English learner).
What are an Overall 4 on the ELPAC AND STAR Reading score in the 30th%ile or above (or SBAC 3 or 4)?
These are the qualifications a high school teacher must have to teach English Learners.
What are a valid credential and CLAD or EL Authorization (1 for D-ELD, S for I-ELD)?
This is one of the four guiding principles from the English Learner Road Map.
What is Assets-based Education, Rigorous Academics for All, Systematic Support, or Alignment and Articulation?
These are the three proficiency descriptors for English learners.
What are Emerging, Expanding, and Bridging?
These are the ELs who receive both Designated ELD and access to A-G Core content coursework with Integrated ELD.
Who are ALL of our ELs?
This is how long a scholar is monitored once they are Reclassified as Fluent English Proficient (RFEP).
What is for 4 years?
These are the stakeholder groups in SLUDS that receive professional development and training.
Who are teachers, site leaders, parent facilitators, counselors, specialists, and district leaders?
In addition to a uniform base grant for every student, districts receive supplemental grant funding for scholars included in these three categories.
What are low-income, English learners, and foster youth?
These are the high school program options for scholars identified as ELs.
What are SEI (Structured English Immersion) with a Newcomer Pathway option?
These are the teachers that provide Integrated ELD and the standards on which they base their instruction.
Who are ALL teachers of ELs using CA content standards in tandem with CA ELD standards?
This is the platform we use to monitor all EL Data.
What is ELLevation?
This committee must be made up of more than 51% parents of ELs
What is the ELAC?