NEISD Two-Way Immersion/ Dual Language Program information meeting

1. NEISD Two-Way Immersion/Dual Language Programinformation meeting

2. Welcome and Introduction Dual Language Program Overview Parent Agreement Admission and Enrollment Procedures Questions and Answers Agenda

4. Approved 2011-12 Bilingual Clusters TUSCANY HEIGHTS Cibolo Green Hardy Oak Dual Language – K-5 Colonial Hills ROAN FOREST Wilderness Oak Canyon Ridge Dual Language – K-2 Roan Forest Bilingual at Steubing Ranch (east of 281) or Coker (west of 281) Bulverde Creek Canyon Ridge Cibolo Green Encino Park Roan Forest Stone Oak Tuscany Heights Wilderness Oak Encino Park Bulverde Creek StoneOak Dual Language – K-3El Dorado Larkspur OlmosRegency PlaceRidgeview Steubing Ranch Thousand Oaks REDLAND OAKS Hidden Forest Longs Creek Huebner FOX RUN STAHL Northern Hills Wetmore OAK MEADOW Coker Woodstone HARMONY HILLS El Dorado Dual Language - K-2 Coker East Terrell Hills Jackson-Keller Stahl Steubing Ranch Walzem Larkspur OAK GROVE Royal Ridge Clear Spring Castle Hills Regency Place MONTGOMERY SERNA Colonial Hills Windcrest Jackson-Keller Northwood WALZEM RIDGEVIEW West Ave DELLVIEW Camelot OLMOS ETH WILSHIRE updated 3/22/2012

7. Mission Statement To empower and develop bilingual, bi-literate students Program Goals • Provide an opportunity for students to acquire a second language while they maintain their home language and culture • Maintain academic performance at or above grade level as measured by classroom grades, benchmarks and state assessments • Develop high, positive cross-cultural understanding

8. The Two-Way Immersion/Dual Language Program in NEISD is an enriched education program that provides instruction for native English speaking and native Spanish speaking students.

9. In a Two-Way Immersion/Dual Language Program students receive instruction in both Spanish and English. This model aims for bi-literacy, bilingualism, high academic achievement in two languages, and multicultural understanding for all students.

10. Ideal classes may be comprised of up to 50% native English speakers and up to 50% native Spanish speakers. Using the 90/10 program model, students in the early grades will receive the majority of their academic instruction in Spanish.

11. LANGUAGE DISTRIBUTION BY GRADE LEVEL

12. Parental Support Parents are an integral part of the Two- Way Immersion Dual Language Program. The success of students in any program depends partly on parental support.

13. Elementary Non-negotiables •A minimum of 50% to a maximum of 90% of instruction in the target language •Strict separation of languages for instruction (no translation) •K-5th grades commitment

16. As parents/guardians, we understand and hold a shared responsibility for the following: • providing encouragement and support for biliteracy and bilingualism for my child • supporting appropriate classroom behavior and comply with the NEISD Student Code of Conduct • ensuring our child’s daily school attendance and punctuality both for arrival and departure • a student with what is determined as an unacceptable number or amount of tardies will receive a written warning and/or may be called in for a meeting from the campus principal • the aforementioned meeting could result in a decision to remove the child from the program

17. As parents/guardians, we understand the following district procedures: • in accordance with the district transportation policy, transportation for officially accepted students (both native Spanish and English speakers) will be provided for those students who live within the bilingual school boundaries • transportation for officially accepted students (both native Spanish and English speakers) will be provided for those who live within the bilingual cluster feeder campus sites per the attached map • school choice application is not required for Non-ELL dual language participants • school choice application for siblings of Non-ELL dual language is required and must be submitted by the district deadline • school choice application does not guarantee placement for siblings of Non-ELL dual language participants at the bilingual school site • Non-ELL participants must complete all ELL department procedures prior to admittance to the Dual Language Program • the only official notification of acceptance will be on a school letter signed by the principal • signing this agreement does not guarantee admittance into the program • if our child is accepted into the Dual Language Program then our child will be reported to the state as a bilingual program participant

18. Classroom Instruction that works with English Language Learners Facilitator's Guide By Jane D. Hill and Cynthia L. Bjork , 2008 Figure2.1 Sample Teacher Prompts for Each Stage of Second Language Acquisition

19. BICS CALP Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills Conversational Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency Textbook language Social and Academic Language

20. ENGLISH LEARNERS= LONG-TERM K-12 ACHIEVEMENT IN NORMAL CURVE EQUIVALENTS (NCEs) ON STANDARDIZED TESTS IN ENGLISH READING COMPARED ACROSS SEVEN PROGRAM MODELSThomas & Collier 2004 (Results aggregated from a series of longitudinal studies of well-implemented, mature programs in five school districts and in California from 1998-2000 Program 1: Two-way developmental bilingual education (BE), including Content ESL Program 2: One-way developmental BE, including ESL taught through academic content Program 3: Transitional BE, including ESL taught through academic content Program 4: Transitional BE, including ESL, both taught traditionally Program 5: ESL taught through academic content using current approaches with no L1 use Program 6: ESL pullout - taught traditionally Program 7: Proposition 227 in California (sequential 2-year cohorts, spring 1998-spring 2000)

21. Review Parent Information Packet • Parent Agreement • Enrollment Form • Parent Required Tasks Checklist

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23. North East ISD Two-Way / Dual Language Program Student Information 20__-20__ • 1. Student Name: ______________________________________________________ • First Last • 2. Date of birth: ___________________________ Sex: ______F ______M • mm/dd/yy • Student’s first language: _____English _____Spanish _____Other • 4. Address: __________________________________________________________ • Number Street (apt.#) Zip code • Home telephone: _________________________ Email: ________________ • Work/cell telephone: ______________________________________________ • Parent name(s): ___________________________________________________ • Home campus: ____________________________________________________ • Two-Way/Dual Language Program campus: _________________________ • 10. Sibling(s) in Two-Way/Dual Language Program: _____Yes _____No • Name: _______________________________Grade:____________________ • Name: _______________________________Grade:___________________ 23

24. NEISD Two-Way Immersion/Dual Language ProgramParent Orientation To arrange a visit to one of the Two-Way Immersion Dual Language Program classes please contact the campus Bilingual Specialist. Coker – Marcela Csitskovits at mcsits@neisd.net Colonial Hills – Ana Martinez at amarti11@neisd.net East Terrell Hills – Francisco Delgado at fdelga1@neisd.net El Dorado – Shelly Knecht at rknec@neisd.net Jackson-Keller – Iris Escandon at iescan@neisd.net Larkspur – Xochitl Vega at xvega@neisd.net Olmos – L. Reyna Swanson at lswans@neisd.net Regency Place – Herminia Alarcon at halarc@neisd.net Ridgeview - Juan Carlos Hernandez at jherna40@neisd.net Roan Forest – Marcela Csitskovits at mcsits@neisd.net Stahl – Elizabeth Garza at egarza@neisd.net Steubing Ranch – Guillermina Cunningham at gcunni1@neisd.net Walzem – Elsa Galindo at egalin6@neisd.net For more district level information please contact: E. Nancy Hudson Marie Mendoza ELL Instructional Specialist Director for ELL Programs ehudso@neisd.netmmendo9@neisd.net 210-407-0338 210-407-0337