Special Education and ESL Support Classes

All students who receive either Special Education, EL support or both will follow the same process. Teachers and support staff will provide direct instruction and projects or pre-created lessons to all students. All documentation for supports for these student groups will be reviewed by the campus administration. Support staff is generally assigned to these areas and will continue to support students who are in the I-LEARN@HOME program. The Instructional Coordinators for both the Special Education and Bilingual Departments conduct yearlong training and network meetings to support teachers. These meetings will continue using virtual learning tools.

Special Education and ESL Support Classes

All students who receive either Special Education, EL support or both will follow the same process. Teachers and support staff will provide direct instruction and projects or pre-created lessons to all students. All documentation for supports for these student groups will be reviewed by the campus administration. Support staff is generally assigned to these areas and will continue to support students who are in the I-LEARN@HOME program. The Instructional Coordinators for both the Special Education and Bilingual Departments conduct yearlong training and network meetings to support teachers. These meetings will continue using virtual learning tools.

Special Education

The Special Education Co-Taught Teachers will provide synchronous and asynchronous instruction in conjunction with general education teachers following their IEP’s. Each students’ IEP will be reviewed to ensure that staff are supporting students daily as scheduled on their IEP. The SPED case manager and the Department Chairs/Assistant Principals will review each student’s progress through their PLC’s

Students in specialized classrooms will have projects created to support student learning. All projects will be reviewed by their administrator at the campus PLC’s. The campus teachers will also have support from the Special Education Coordinators who may provide ideas for lessons, accommodation of assignment/assessments, and implementation of computer applications/programs.

ARD’s will be scheduled to ensure that any updates to IEP’s or scheduling pages are completed as soon as possible to align with the I-LEARN@HOME program. Students’ documented designated supports will be provided to their teachers to accommodate direct instruction and pre-prepared activities. Additional supports may be put in place to assist students with their instructional programs.

Case managers will be responsible to monitor progress and may call for an ARD meeting at any time. The campus administration will also monitor that all students are receiving their designated supports and will meet with the case managers to review student progress. Walkthroughs by the campus administration will also check to ensure that teachers are meeting all IEP requirements.

The following chart shows the instruction program by Special Education instructional settings in Clint ISD:

Professional development for all Special Education teachers will be conducted during the July 2020 professional development week on the I-LEARN@HOME program.

Furthermore, all Special Education Teachers will be trained by level based on the following schedule:

English Language Learners

The Clint ISD Bilingual Department will be implementing the Dual Language program at all elementary campuses. The One-Way Dual Language program in the Clint Independent School District is geared for Pre-Kinder through Fifth-grade native-Spanish speaking students. The program will provide instruction in both English and Spanish to English Language Learners utilizing a 50/50 model. Professional Development will be ongoing as well as teachers will be provided resources in both languages to ensure all students can benefit from this model. Bilingual teachers will have direct instruction components within the I-LEARN@HOME plan as well as pre-pared lessons which will both follow the 50/50 One-Way Dual Language Model.

Secondary Campuses will provide ESL instruction to support our English Learners. Our sixth-grade students will have an ELAR course supported with an ESL language acquisition course. Seventh and eighth grade students may receive the same instruction format as sixth grade however new this year for 7th and 8th grade is the ELLA course which our students can participate in as well. Therefore, students participating in ELLA will receive the ELAR instruction and embedded within the course will be the language acquisition supports to continue nourishing the first language while nurturing the second language.

For our High School English Learner students, we will offer the ESOL I and II course along with the opportunity to also be in an ELDA course. The ELDA course will be used to support our students with minimal language acquisition and is intended to help students develop the second language while validating the student’s native language. The teachers in these courses will provide direct instruction as well as pre-prepared projects and lessons. Daily monitoring will occur between the direct instruction and pre-prepared projects/activities to ensure students are on pace with the curriculum. All teachers will participate in their weekly PLC meetings to plan and review student instructional needs and progress. The campus teacher will also have support from the Bilingual/ESL Coordinators who will assist teachers with pre-planning, crafting lessons with embedded language supports, modifying assessments, and implementing computer applications/programs.