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WABE - SIG. Districts with Multiple Languages: Facilitated Discussion to Explore Special Interest Group Formation Ellen Kaje, Ph.D ., Heidi LaMare , Sue Moeller, Bonnie English. Panel Discussion – Current Multilingual Programs. Bellevue School District – Heidi LaMare

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  1. WABE - SIG Districts with Multiple Languages: Facilitated Discussion to Explore Special Interest Group Formation Ellen Kaje, Ph.D., Heidi LaMare, Sue Moeller, Bonnie English

  2. Panel Discussion – Current Multilingual Programs Bellevue School District – Heidi LaMare Northshore School District – Sue Moeller Seattle School District – Bonnie English Shoreline School District – Ellen Kaje

  3. Bellevue 89 Languages 1770 ELL students 19649 Total district population

  4. Bellevue 4 Schools offering Dual Language 3 Spanish 1 Mandarin All Elementary/Secondary schools have Certificated ELL Facilitators 3 Middle Schools have sheltered instruction 2 High Schools have sheltered instruction

  5. Bellevue All Title and LAP Schools have had GLAD Training 5 year plan for implementation of GLAD within district SIOP at Middle and High District wide cultural competence implementation ELL Facilitator training with Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Learners (Honigsfeld and Dove)

  6. Bellevue Parent Groups: ELL Advisory Committee PAAC – Parents Action and Advisory Council Impulso Escolar Latino de Bellevue

  7. Northshore ELL students–1006, Total population–19,737

  8. Northshore Languages Spoken – 58 total The six languages below account for almost 80% of all ELL students in the district. Spanish alone constitutes the language spoken by 55% of the ELL students.

  9. Northshore Sheltered Instruction; Dual Language GLAD; SIOP; Fisher and Frey Research – Collier & Thomas, Cummins; Hakuta; Wong-Filmore: Piaget; Vygotsky; Bandura; Wood, Burner and Ross

  10. Northshore Natural Leaders – Parents YMCA, Hang Time – Community

  11. Seattle 129 Languages 5,562 ELL students 49,000 Total district population

  12. Seattle’s Program Models Secondary SBOC / World School Proficiency Model / Collaboration Elementary EBOC Aligned Sheltered Instruction Collaborative Model ELD Instruction vs. ELD Support

  13. Reevaluating Our Current Elementary Models: ELD Instruction

  14. Scaffolding Content and Academic Language in English Using Proficiency Levels Seattle’s Professional Development • Mainstream Teachers • SCALE UP 100, 200 series • Building based PD (6 district coaches) • ELD Teachers • SCALE UP 200 Series • ELD Inquiry Meetings • Instructional Assistants • SCALE UP 100 • Bi-Annual full day PD • Principals • Summer Leadership Institute • Collaborative Schools • Week-long Collaborative Institute Cultural Connections / Schema Rigorous Standards- Based Instruction Meaningful Interaction Academic Language

  15. Research • Susana Dutro: EL Achieve • Creese, A. (2005a). Is this content-based language teaching? Linguistics and Education, 16, 188-204. • B. Mohan, C. Leung and C. Davison (Eds.), English as a Second Language in the Mainstream: Teaching, Learning and Identity. Boston: Pearson. • deJong, E.J. & Harper, C.A. (2005). Preparing mainstream teachers for English language learners: Is being a good teacher good enough? Teacher Education Quarterly, 32(2), 101-124. • Dalton, S.D. (1998) Pedagogy Matters: Standards for Effective Teaching Practice. • Valencia, S., Stritikus, T. & Magarati, R. M. (2007). Caught in the middle: Policy and practice contexts for the education of English language learners in Washington state. Olympia, WA: Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

  16. Seattle Parent organizations Family and Community Partnerships School Based Family Engagement Action Teams Family Symposium Community organizations Coalition for Refugees from Burma East African Community Services Horn of Africa Services Refugee Women’s Alliance Somali Community Services of Seattle.

  17. Shoreline 76 Languages (51 in ELL) 600 ELL students 8700 Total district population 6% ELL 18% Speak another language at home

  18. Shoreline Elementary ELL 5 schools with ELL (1.0 cert, para time) Spanish literacy after school Extended Day Kindergarten (EDK) GLAD training Secondary ELL Both MS, both HS with ELL ELL classes and SIOP classes Native language autobiography project SIOP training

  19. Shoreline Research Echevarria, Vogt and Short (SIOP), Dalton (5 practices), Dutro (langdev), Gibbons (oral langdevin classes), Biemiller& Boote, Beck & McKeown (interactive read-alouds)

  20. Shoreline Parent Liaisons Parent Academic Liaison (Title I/LAP/Title III) – Korean/English Immigrant Family Liaison (Title III) – Spanish/English Community Partnerships Center for Human Services, YMCA, city

  21. WABE - SIG Challenges in meeting state and federal mandates? Greatest needs?

  22. WABE - SIG WABE assistance/role Facilitate sharing resources Solicit action

  23. Interested in participating In a WABE Multilingual Special Interest Group (SIG)?

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