Week of September 7th
Upcoming Professional Development
ESOL Open Office Hours
We are here to support you! We are excited to hold open time each week to support you. You do not have to sign-up! You simply enter the Zoom link if you have questions or need assistance. Please note some sessions are specific to New ESOL Teachers. Each of the ICs have an assigned mentor group. If you are a new ESOL Teacher, please see the chart below to know who is your support person.
ALL ESOL Teachers are welcome to attend all other open office hours to receive needed support!
The chart with times and Zoom Links (this is also located in SLIDE #9 and #10 in our September Google Slide Presentation)
Enrich Next Steps
Once we have initiated our students, uploaded our files and sent home the Parent Notification Letters, it is time to begin our Individual Language Acquisition Plans (ILAP). We are learning each aspect step by step. The State ILAP has been officially updated in Enrich as of 9/10/2020. We have the perfect timing!
We are holding PD on September 22nd and 23rd specifically for how to complete ILAPs. We are offering the same session 4 times. You only need to attend ONE session. If you cannot attend any of the 4 sessions when they are offered, the recording will be provided. Please click this link for document with times and PD portal links.
Previous Professional Development
September 8th ESOL Monthly PD
Thank you so much for attending our September 8th monthly meeting. If you were not able to attend, please take the time to watch the recording and go over the Google Slides. If you attended and would like to watch again or use the slides as a reference, please do so!
All other Break out session recordings and resources will be shared in the appropriate Newsletter Tab by Topic
Follow-Up from Elementary September PD
Alphachants:
Since there are a few schools that don’t have the Alphachants curriculum at this time, here are some options you can implement until they become available to your school:
-Use the sample lessons that Jennifer created as a guide to create phonics lessons. I’ve linked a few examples of Jennifer’s lessons on the REACH in the USA Newsletter, (Thanks for sharing Jennifer!)
You can use some of the phonics materials from the 1st grade REACH into Phonics to create these lessons.
-Consider communicating or plan (if possible) with the Kindergarten teachers at your school to find what letters/phonics they're doing and you can integrate those same letters/phonics and integrate it within the vocabulary and writing as you work with the kindergarteners.
Follow-up to App Questions
VoiceThread and Talking Points
-At this time, Voice Thread and Talking Points are not on the district approved list and we are currently in the process of getting it approved. Thank you Blanca and Latoi for working on this for us!
ILAP Accommodations and Best Practices...
After you initiate your ELs in Enrich, the next step is to complete the Parent Notification Letters (PLN). On the PLN you have to indicate if the EL will be served with OR without accommodations. You can use the following screenshots of the new ILAP form to guide your decision. We will have the specific ILAP professional development and directions on September 22nd and 23rd. Remember one step at a time...
Reminder and Clarifications
Do you have something to celebrate? I hope we all do! Please share with the team so we can celebrate together! Teams that celebrate together, accelerate together!
Pleas complete the Google Form with celebrations! This is ongoing throughout the year! I will add them every Thursday in our Newsletter!
ACCESS 2020 Report
Since our GCSource report is not yet up and running (technology is doing a test run on Thursday), our Enrich Coordinator Meg Pletcher has created an ACCESS 2020 report for us in Enrich. This will give you a report of all your students and their current ACCESS scores with grade levels included. You will only see students if they are scheduled to you in Power School.
If you have more than one school, you must log into your home school at the main log in screen. Then you can toggle between schools on the top right of the home page after you login.
A special thanks to Tory Pennington for creating this direction video for us and the Virtual ESOL Teachers!
ENRICH ACCESS 2020 Report Directions
No Orange Folders
Since we are shifting to the digital documentation process, we do not need to create orange permanent folders for our students. All HLS forms and original Screener Score sheets with student written sections (writing for Elementary) are to be placed behind the Testing Card in the permanent records with DO NOT Purge written on them.
Updated ESOL Personnel List
This is ever-changing with the needs of our students and teachers. Please save this link and check periodically as needed. Thanks!
Instructional Support and Scheduling Students
In order for you to be able to access all your student information in various databases, the students must be scheduled to you in Power School. For secondary ESOL teachers, you should be scheduled a consultative "caseload" if there are more than one of you at a school. You need to divide up the students and ensure that all ESOL teachers have a portion of the consulative and monitored ELs in the building. If there are any questions, please contact Tanya Franca, Director of ESOL Services.
Scheduling Charts and Scheduling Information
We included the Curriculum Scheduling information and charts in our Beginning of the Year Folder. By request I have linked it here for your convenience. Keep up the great work!
Secondary Literacy Score Chart