GCS MLP Goals and Objectives

Greenville County MLP Goals and Objectives

The goal of Greenville County School District’s MLP is to provide equitable educational opportunities to culturally and linguistically diverse students who have a primary or first language other than English.  The primary focus is to provide an English-rich environment with a variety of opportunities to reach English language proficiency as soon as possible.  Greenville County Schools is working to create a learning environment that encourages pride in cultural heritage and supporting Multilingual Learners (MLs) towards graduation plus.    

The Multilingual Learner Program strives to achieve the following learning objectives:

• To identify and assess all students whose first or primary language is one other than English as indicated on the South Carolina Enrollment Survey

• To provide MLP services for MLs in all English language domains:  Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.  

• To assess and monitor the academic progress of MLs with an on-going evaluation process.

• To create a learning environment that provides for the affective and cognitive needs of MLs.

• To communicate instructional goals and expectations to parents and encourage them to support their children’s progress.

• To provide MLP personnel with professional development in appropriate instructional, assessment and culturally responsive teaching strategies needed to support MLs.

• To hire and maintain staff to provide MLs with an equitable educational opportunity.

• To monitor students who have exited the program to assure continued language and academic success

• To provide professional development for content area teachers to equip them with the tools that they need to educate MLs in their classroom.

MLP Curriculum

Kindergarten through 8th grade students are instructed using Lexia Core 5 and Reach into Phonics.  Newcomers are instructed using Lexia Core 5, Lexia English, Reach into Phonics, and Reach in the USA.

Assessment Procedures & Evaluation of Student Progress

~Initial placement in the ESOL program is assessed using the Kindergarten WIDA Screener or the WIDA Online Screener for students 1st-12th grades

~Students will be assessed each spring using the WIDA-ACCESS assessment.

Communication with Parents

A Parent Notification letter is sent home at the beginning of the year informing parents of their child’s participation in the ML Program along with a copy of their ACCESS score or screener score. Parents can also call or email if there are questions about their child's progress or if they have questions about the ML Program.