English as a Second Language

Program Overview

March 2015 Christina Ponzio cponzio@birmingham.k12.mi.us Kalyn Wulatin kwulatin@birmingham.k12.mi.us

Source: Shereen Tabrizi, MDE Director of Special Populations Unit, 2015

LEP/FLEP Population

Data reflects information from the 2012-2013 school year.

2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015

145 new students 153 new students 130 new students

260 English learners

332 English learners

346 English learners

75 FLEP (Year 1 or 2)

80 FLEP (Year 1 or 2)

116 FLEP (Year 1 or 2)

143 former FLEP 163 former FLEP 192 former FLEP

ELs by Building-Active and Monitored*

Beverly – 13

Bingham Farms – 15

Greenfield – 10

Harlan – 19

Pembroke – 24

Pierce – 73

Quarton – 18

West Maple – 125

• Groves – 38

• Seaholm – 29

• Berkshire – 63

• Derby – 26

• BCS - 18

*Data reflects information from the 2014-15 school year.

Albanian*

Arabic*

Bulgarian

Catalan

Cebuano

Chaldean

Creole

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Ewe

Farsi

Finnish

French*

Fulani

German*

English as a Second Language Greek

Gujarati

Hebrew

Hindi

Icelandic

Igbo

Italian*

Japanese

Korean

Macedonian

Mandarin

Marathi

Norwegian

Panjabi

Polish

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Sinhalese

Spanish*

Swedish

Tagalog

Telugu

Thai

Turkish

Twi

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Visaya

Wolof

Yoruba *Highest populations

1) To develop English language proficiency as quickly as possible by providing comprehensive and directed English language instruction

2) To provide orientation and basic survival skills for American culture and schools

ESL Program Goals

3) To build oral language, which is vital in order to read

4) To provide appropriate instruction at the appropriate level

5) To enhance ELs’ self-esteem

Level 1 – Entering

Level 2 – Emerging

Level 3 – Developing

Level 4 – Expanding

Level 5 – Bridging

Level 6 – Reaching

(Exited)

WIDA English Language Development

ESL Elementary Family Night,

October 2014

AMAO Progress--ELPA

AMAO 1 (Progress Target) – Number of students who increase score by 4 scale score points

AMAO 2 (Proficiency Target) – Number of students who score proficient/advanced proficient

AMAO 3 (Adequate Yearly Progress) – Subgroup met district AYP on state assessments in ELA and math

AMAO 1 AMAO 2 AMAO 3

BPS MDE BPS MDE BPS

2009-2010 87 75 72 10 Met

2010-2011 92 77 58 13 Met

2011-2012 88* 79 58 16 Met

2012-2013 84 81 66 20 Not Met

*This year reflects change in Exit Protocol by the state. 2013-2014 data not released

*Data reflects information from the 2012-2013 school year.

Pierce and West Maple

Levels 1-2

120 minutes/day Oral language

Word work

Guided reading

Guided writing

Level 3 and above AARI plus writing

Fountas & Pinnell

Leveled Literacy

Intervention (LLI)

Literature and

information circles

Elementary ESL Centers

5th-grade AARI group proudly presents

their text map

4th Grade

Student Sample

September 2014

Pattern sentences using

sentence frames

March 2015

Planning a party in his own

words in paragraph form

A normal progression for an EL student

is to advance one level per year

ESL courses count toward credit in

Language Arts ESL A 2-period block Language Arts

class for newcomers

ESL B Language Arts class for second

level

ESL C Language Arts class for third level

ESL Tutorial Elective offered to all ELs

Students with expanding/bridging

English language development or above

attend Derby or BCS in mainstream

classrooms and may receive coordinated

services based on progress monitoring

Middle School ESL Centers

ESL courses count toward credit in ELA:

ESL 1

Designed to prepare students to master CCSS

ELA in concepts/skills from below Grade 9

ESL 2

Aligned with CCSS ELA for Grades 9-10

ESL 3

Aligned with CCSS ELA for Grades 9-10

Fulfills high school Speech and Composition

requirements for graduation

ESL Reading Lab

Includes AARI as well as academic

language/literacy for other content areas

ESL Tutorial

Elective offered to all ELs

High School ESL Program

Progress of ELs at all levels

Ongoing implementation of WIDA

Family Nights and Parent

Advisory

Extended learning programs

Collaboration/PD for general

education teachers

5D

Literacy Inquiry Cohort

Diversity and SIP committees

Joint service-learning projects

Successes

2015 Elementary Service

Learning Project: Pierce

and West Maple ELs read

and sing to seniors at

American House

Closing the achievement gap for ELs Increased core content support and PD/coaching

for general education teachers

ELs strategically scheduled in classes with

SIOP-trained general education teachers

Time, resources and manpower!

Areas for Improvement

Questions?