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End-of-the Year ELL Parent Meeting

End-of-the Year ELL Parent Meeting. Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Language Proficiency Levels. Level 1: Beginning/ Advanced Beginning Level 2: Intermediate Level 3: Advanced Level 4: Transitional – exit level. WELPA Results. 2014 IP WELPA Results.

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End-of-the Year ELL Parent Meeting

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  1. End-of-the YearELL Parent Meeting Tuesday, June 10, 2014

  2. Language Proficiency Levels • Level 1: Beginning/ Advanced Beginning • Level 2: Intermediate • Level 3: Advanced • Level 4: Transitional – exit level

  3. WELPA Results

  4. 2014 IP WELPA Results

  5. Common Core State Standards (CCSS) 45 states

  6. Grade-level expectations (skills and knowledge) • Goal of getting students ready for college and career • Doesn’t dictate specific curriculum or a way of teaching Three-minute video

  7. Shifts in ELA (English Language Arts) • Regular practice with complex texts and their academic language • Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from texts, both literary and informational • Building knowledge through content-rich non-fiction

  8. Shifts in Math • Greater focus (depth) on fewer topics • Coherence: linking topics and thinking across grades • Rigor: pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skills and fluency, application with equal intensity

  9. SBAC (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium) – 22 states

  10. Field tested this year by our district • Online testing • ELA and Math Assessments - Computer Adaptive Assessment (CAT) - Class Activity (CA)/Performance Task (PT)

  11. English Language Proficiency Standards (ELP) – 11 states

  12. ELP Standards • ELP Standards are aligned to Common Core • ELPA21 Assessment will be based on new ELP Standards • ELPA21 will replace WELPA in 2015-2016

  13. New Curriculum (pending adoptionby School Board) • K-2 Literacy Curriculum – aligned with Common Core • K-5 Handwriting Curriculum - No more D’Nealian (slanted) writing - Back to Block Writing and Cursive Writing

  14. Summer Activities • Day Camps (JCC, Boys & Girls Club, MI Parks & Recreation, etc) • Travel • Reading (Raz-Kids, PebbleGo, MI library summer program) • Tutoring (www.wyzant.com) • Keyboarding (typing)

  15. Kindergarten Science/Social Studies Preview • Kindergarten Curriculum • http://www.mercerislandschools.org/Page/281 • Science: • Wood • Weather • Embryology • Social Studies: Our World, Now and Long Ago

  16. 1st GradeScience/Social Studies Preview • 1st grade Curriculum • http://www.mercerislandschools.org/Page/282 • Science: • Balls and Ramps • Magnets • Butterflies • Social Studies: Families in the Neighborhood

  17. 2nd gradeScience/Social Studies Preview • 2nd grade Curriculum • http://www.mercerislandschools.org/Page/283 • Science: • Moon • Balancing and Weighing • Organisms • Social Studies: People We Know

  18. 3rd gradeScience/Social Studies Preview • 3rd grade Curriculum • http://www.mercerislandschools.org/Page/284 • Science: • Rocks and Minerals • Chemical Tests • Puget Sound Marine Life • Social Studies: Early Northwest People

  19. 4th GradeScience/Social Studies Preview • 4th grade Curriculum • http://www.mercerislandschools.org/Page/285 • Science: • Electricity • Food Chemistry • Sound • Experimenting with Plants • Social Studies: Washington History

  20. 5th grade Science/Social Studies Preview • 5th grade Curriculum • http://www.mercerislandschools.org/Page/286 • Science: • Salmon in the Sound • Water Cycle • Solar Systems • Flight and Rocketry • Human Body • Social Studies: U.S. history (and government)

  21. For Your Information • Class Assignments – available for viewing on Skyward a few days before first day of school (Tuesday, Sept.2) • Bridge the Gap Campaign (goal to raise $1.2 million) - $806,000 and counting - 30% participation - Make a donation of any amount by June 15

  22. Staff Update Retirees:  • Patty Lewis (2nd grade) • Patty Shipman (School Psychologist) New Grade Level/School Assignments:  • Sharon Jarnigan (Kindergarten) • Shelley Wangen (2nd grade) • Stephanie John-Lewis (3rd grade) • Amy Kerby (4th Grade) • Sally Loeser (5th grade) • Michele Frisch (West Mercer)

  23. Recognitions • Volunteers - Hitomi Early - Nancy Coupes - Rachel Yu • Anne Cameron - Over 8 years of working with IP ELL students - Dedicated, caring, patient

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