Services for English Learners (SEL) Network Professional Learning Community (PLC) Meeting

1. Services for English Learners (SEL) Network Professional Learning Community (PLC) Meeting September 6, 2012, D 1009, 8:30-11:30 a.m.

2. Outcomes • Collaborate with English Learner (EL) experts throughout Orange County to explore the new English Language Development (ELD) standards and their pedagogical implications • Explain the what, how, and why of the new ELD standards (and their relationship to the Common Core State Standards) to various stakeholders • Share expertise in order to increase English Learners’ language proficiency and access to rigorous academic content

3. Agenda • Welcome and Introductions • Ideas from the Field • Introduction to the New, Draft ELD Standards, Webinar • Spotlight: Anaheim City School District • Current versus New ELD Standards • Delve into the New Standards • Key Shifts from Current to New ELD Standards • Resources • Future Meetings

4. Ideas from the Field What have you already done/what are your plans for introducing staff to the new ELD standards? Ideas for the group….

5. Introduction to the New, Draft ELD Standards View and discuss portions of the July 23, 2012 WestEd webinar: • Appendix A: Proficiency Level Descriptors for Next Generation California ELD Standards • Walk-Though of the draft ELD standards

6. Questions to Ponder • What do you notice about the new proficiency level descriptors? Pedagogical implications? • What are your thoughts on the communicative modes (collaborative, interpretive, and productive)? • What’s the relationship between Part I (Interacting in Meaningful Ways) and Part II (Learning about How English Works)? • Other thoughts/observations?

7. Spotlight:Anaheim City School District

8. Current versus New: Sort Cards Reflection: What similarities/differences did you note?

9. Delving into the New Table Group Rotation: • Collaborative • Interpretive • Productive

10. Delving into the New, Cont. Assign Table Groups and Share: • Structuring Cohesive Texts • Expanding and Enriching Ideas • Connecting and Condensing Ideas

11. Key Shifts from Current toNew ELD Standards From… To… …as a developmental linguistic and social process Language as action, subsuming structure and function …as non linear and complex developmental process aimed at comprehension and effective communication Use of complex texts with ample context and temporary supports • Language acquisition as an individual process • Languages as structures or functions • L2 acquisition as a linear and progressive process aimed at accuracy and grammatical correctness • Use of simplified texts with minimal context Source: 7/23/12 WestEd, CDE Webinar, slides 7-8

12. Key Shifts from Current toNew ELD Standards cont. From… To… Activities that scaffold students’ development and autonomy as part of learning and development Exploration of how language is purposeful and patterned to do its particular rhetorical work Multimodal grammar addressed within a context of texts and academic tasks Literacy foundational skills targeting varying profiles of Els, tapping linguistic resources • Activities that pre-teach content or simply “help students get through texts” • Isolated, discrete, structural features of language • Traditional grammar as a starting point to access texts • Literacy foundational skills as one-size-fits-all, neglecting linguistic resources Source: 7/23/12 WestEd, CDE Webinar, slides 7-8

13. Reflection With the adoption of our new ELD standards (September or November, 2012), what changes do you hope to see in schools/classrooms?

14. Resources

15. Future Meeting Topics: Brainstorm Dates: • January 15, 2013 (D 1002) • February 7, 2013 (D 1003) • March 12, 2013 (D 1003) Don’t forget the listserv to exchange ideas with your colleagues: oc-sel@listserv.ocde.us