Colonial Beach Public Schools “Striving For Excellence”

1. Colonial Beach Public Schools “Striving For Excellence” • Title III Program • Abigail Smith, Director • Eight Participating Students • Grades K – 12 • CLIMBS Training Participants: Abigail Smith, Erika Cornwell, Karen Camlin, And Lisa Mott

2. Title III Program • Students identified as ELLs participate in an after school vocabulary enrichment program. • Students attend a pre-lesson - introducing academic topic and accompanying vocabulary. • Students attend field trip on Saturday (experiential learning experience) • Students attend post lesson to wrap up lesson review activities from pre-lesson and vocabulary.

3. Past Trips • Smithsonian Museums • Air and Space Museum • American Indian Museum • Natural History Museum

4. Other Excursions Include... • Baltimore Aquarium • Mount Vernon • Riverside Dinner Theater • Department of Defense Open House and Air Show • Richmond Science Museum

5. Title III Program Plan for Improvement • Phase 1 – Title III Coordinator and Teachers attend CLIMBS Training • Phase 2 – Present to Superintendent of schools and Principals

6. Improvement Plan Cont. • Phase 3 - Superintendent and Principals disseminate information and requirements to teachers • Phase 4 – Teachers utilize “crosswalks” to implement WIDA standards in classroom.

7. Phase 1 • Title III Coordinator, Elementary School Guidance Counselor and two General Education Teachers attend WIDA CLIMBS Training. • October 6-7, November 4-5, and December 1. • Group received training on PLCs, Instructional Planning, Assessment, Building Schema, and Lesson Delivery.

8. Professional Learning Communities • PLCs play an integral part in the implementation of new programs into a school system. • PLCs must have a clearly defined mission (goal) • Time must be provided during the school day for a PLC to meet. • Colleagues must work together as professionals to meet the goal of the PLC.

9. CBPS Title III PLC • Mission – The Colonial Beach Public School's Title III PLC will educate administrators and teachers on the WIDA standards and implementation of crosswalks into general education classrooms. • Goals: • Teachers will include WIDA standards in weekly lesson plans as they correlate with Virginia SOLs. • Teachers will work collaboratively to insure that students are prepared for the WIDA Access for ELLs assessment given in the spring of the school year.

10. Please see sample of current CBPS lesson plan format. Colonial Beach Public Schools Lesson Plan Adaptation

11. In order to plan appropriate lessons for ELLs teachers must know and understand the Performance Definitions for ELP levels 1 - Entering through 6 – Reaching. Instructional Planning

12. Figure 5B: Performance Definitions WIDA Consortium ELP Standards and Participation Guide • See Handout with level descriptors (pg. RG-45).

13. WIDA CONSORTIUM English Language Proficiency Standards • Packets have been created for each grade level general education teacher outlining the ELP standards for the grade and content taught. • These standards should be integrated into the general education classroom.

14. Student Objectives • Blooms Taxonomy should be utilized when creating objectives for students from the ELP standards. • Students should complete tasks which require them to use a variety of thinking strategies from remembering to creating.

15. Bloom's Taxonomy

16. AssessmentStudents should be given formative and summative assessments to evaluate their progress. Formative Assessments – frequent classroom assessments (daily, weekly) – quizzes, projects, etc... Summative Assessments – Assesses material over a long period of time – Unit tests, SOL Tests.

17. Yearly Assessments given to ELLs English language learners participate in regular general education assessments (quizzes, tests, projects, etc...) ELLs participate in yearly SOL tests. (Students at levels 1 – 3 are eligible to participate in VGLA) ELLs participate in the WIDA Access for ELLs assessment yearly.

18. ACCESS for ELLs • This assessment measures English language proficiency in the content areas. • Students receive a scale score and a proficiency level for: • Listening • Speaking • Reading • Writing

19. The Scores • Students receive a scale score out of a possible 600 points (100-600). • Scale scores are interpreted into proficiency scores. • Proficiency level scores range from 1.0 – 6.0.

20. The Reports • There are five ACCESS score reports • Teacher Report • Parent Report • Student Roster Report • School Frequency Report • District Frequency Report • It is the school systems responsibility to disseminate reports to recipients.

21. The Facts • ELLs are assessed more than any other subgroup. • Students must be prepared for the spring ACCESS for ELLs assessment. • Teachers must incorporate the WIDA ELP standards in daily instruction to prepare students. • This must be mandated school wide.

22. Next Steps... • CLIMBS Participants will present information to Sups., and principals (December 7 – 11, 2009). • Teachers will be given the WIDA crosswalks and trained to utilize to aid in instruction. • Additional administrative staff and teachers will attend WIDA training in spring.

23. Sources • The WIDA English Language Proficiency Standards and Resource Guide, 2009 Edition, Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12.