Week of November 29th

Upcoming Professional Development

ESOL Professional Development/Portal

Here is a link to all ESOL Professional Development offered this school year. Please note you will need to preregister for all PD sessions in advance. 


Our Monthly ESOL session is December 14th.  Please sign up in the portal.  The following are the Zoom links to join the sessions.  "See" you soon! 


Elementary ESOL December 2021 Session

Dec 14, 2021 03:00 PM Eastern Time 

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 864 355 2984

Password: 473490


Secondary ESOL December 2021 Session

Dec 14, 2021 04:00 PM 

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 864 355 2984

Password: 473490

Updates and Reminders

High School ESOL Teachers

Please remember that with the change of the semester in January, our MLs will have new teachers.  All teachers must be aware of and implement the accommodations in the ILAPs.  Also, remember that the ILAPs can be edited.  With the change classes, the classroom accommodations may need to be edited depending on the new courses/teachers.  The first week of January, please collaborate with the second-semester teachers of your MLs with ILAPs, make any updates needed, and gather signatures as needed.  We will share more information during our December 14th meeting. 

Reminder if you still have AWs in PowerSchool for students that needed to be screened this year due to missing the ACCESS for ELLs Assessment last year (Spring 2021), we are reposting the link to the form that must be filled out to document the three attempts to screen.  Please fill out this form as soon as possible.

https://forms.gle/awBxWNd3jRrjRSPx7 

*Reminder if students are virtual, home based schools should schedule the student to come in to complete screening

District and State Testing Accommodations

Virtual Teachers are sharing accommodations with the home-based ESOL Teacher to be included in the spreadsheet that the home-based ESOL teacher shares with his/her STC.


ACCESS for ELLs

Reminder to view the video sent in last weeks newsletter regarding ACCESS for ELLs.  All ML Data for ACCESS for ELLs and Precode Data will be pulled by the State on December 7th.