WELCOME!

This website was created by Laura Stevens and the Northern ENL PLC to assist school administrators of ELLs

 in small and suburban schools in New York State.

ELL Funding and Policy Update

New ENL Toolkit

Introduction to WIDA

NYSED Joins WIDA! Last NYSESLAT is 2026.Starting in the 2026-2027 school year, the New York State Education Department (NYSED) will begin using WIDA ACCESS Online, WIDA’s summative English language proficiency assessment. With this transition, New York will move from paper-based testing to online assessment .   https://wida.wisc.edu/news/new-york-joins-wida-consortium-strengthening-support-multilingual-learners

1. The NYS Board of Regents voted to approve a new framework, known as the “portrait of a graduate,” that helps explain what it will take to earn a diploma after the Regents exams are phased out as a graduation requirement beginning in the 2027-28 school year. 

     3. The New York State Education Department has offered the Science of Reading for Multilingual 

          LearnersToolkit. This toolkit combines leading research on teaching literacy to ELLs and MLs 

          and offers guidance for teachers, school leaders and administrators.

          It is designed to support literacy for NYS English Language Learners and Multilingual Learners.       

          More: https://bit.ly/3MhUk5e   Also see: Teaching ELLs to Read

    STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING ELLS

 READING   LITERACY PADLET   WRITING   NEWCOMER RESOURCES   SPEAKING   MAKING CONTENT

 ACCESSIBLE  VOCABULARY  STRATEGIES  VISUALS  PICTURE SOURCES  BUILD BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE

  CO-TEACHING   WELCOMING STUDENTS & FAMILIES  WELCOMING PARENTS  ABOUT WORLD

 LANGUAGES        WELCOMING STUDENTS   STUDENT AMBASSADORS   ACAD. CONVERSATIONS

 UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE ACQUISITION  UNIVERSAL ROUTINES  

PLANNING FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT  TECH TOOLS   ORAL LANGUAGE  ASSESSMENT  

DESIGNING YOUR TESTS  SCAFFOLDING CONTENT INSTRUCTION  LEARN MORE

CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PRACTICES   RBERN TOOLKIT    ENL PLC SLIDESHOW