Shifting paradigms meet technology: What a difference the data makes.

1. Robin Zane Michele Berke California School for the Deaf Shifting paradigms meet technology: What a difference the data makes.

2. Brief overview of bilingual theory applications at CSD Brief discussion of the framework for best practices (bilingual teaching strategies) How we infuse technology throughout instructional practices How the framework, best practices and data impact student outcomes and accountability Goals of presentation

3. Second language acquisition at CSD: • Students are respected as a linguistic and cultural group • Value their unique visual learning styles • Additive bilingual approach • Assessment and accountability • Assessing academic outcomes that promote and authentically evaluate students (what they know and can do) A complex issue: Special Ed/Bilingual Ed

4. Common underlying proficiency (Cummins) The two languages have a common knowledge base. SOURCE: Baker, 2001 from CAEBER

5. All languages share a common underlying proficiency; cognitive and academic skills acquired in a first language will transfer to related skills in a second language. Cummins Linguistic Interdependence Theory

6. Main function of language (ASL) is meaningful communication Acquisition occurs when high quality input is present Rules in first language generalized to second language acquisition Krashen (1981) Comprehensible input

7. Most are not exposed to a visual language immediately at birth • Need to make connection between what they experience and language • Even with auditory technology, don’t have immediate access to a spoken language • Immediate visual language can resolve this and provide comprehensible input Challenge for most deaf children

8. Lead their lives with 2 (usually American Sign Language, ASL and English) languages May have very different exposure to social and academic languages in their daily lives Deaf students will always be bilingual (Grosjean, 1996) May come to the educational setting as semi-lingual Deaf Students as Bilingual Learners

9. Creating a bilingual “additive” program • Understanding the bilingual acquisition process (social/academic languages—BICS/CALP) • Best practices • Developing materials • Building background knowledge • Purchasing technology (SMART boards, laptops, document scanners, word processing) • Visual media (to make both languages accessible at all times) Supporting Bilingual teaching strategies

10. Inquiry, objectives, questions • What type of data do we need (how is it collected; who is responsible) • Collect, store and disaggregate data • Summarize, analyze and interpret • How will the data be represented • Who, how and where will the information be shared • Data dialogue; creating solutions and equity (Johnson, 2002) What do we need to know(the process)

11. Language planning (status, corpus, acquisition, attitude*) • Including all stakeholders in the process (CDE, administration, staff, students, families, alumni, community members) • Training staff on ASL/English Bilingual teaching strategies • Development of ASL assessment tools and rubrics • Immersion class Formalizing our intentions

12. Processes happened simultaneously to get us where we are: • Feedback from WASC accreditation • Purchase of computer-based, adaptive test (Measures of Academic Progress-MAP- from NWEA) • Establishment of assessment and data committees (among others) • Staff training and “buy-in” • Centralized data storage system What about the data: It didn’t happen overnight

13. Instructional practices • Corpus development • Data storage (Cruncher) • Access for all • Computer Adaptive Testing (MAP) • Links back to curriculum/instructional practices • Differentiated instruction • Formative assessments • IEP planning Technology

14. What we use • Hardware • iMacs in computer lab • SMART boards • Document scanners • Department laptops • Software • PowerSchool • PowerTeacher • Screenflow • Keynote • Study Island • MAP • RP • Curriculum mapping

15. screenflow

16. Degree of Adjectives

17. Kindergarten Weekly Vocabulary

18. Cruncher

19. MAP Descartes

20. August 2011 Everyday Routines Essential Questions: EQ #1: How Do I Start and End My Day? Standards, Content or Unit: Language and Emerging Literacy Standards and Skills: At around 36 months of age, children demonstrate understanding of the meaning of others’ comments, questions, requests, or stories. Assessments: Video or evidence of students who will:1. Look for a stuffed bear when the infant care teacher asks, “Where’s your bear? 2. Get the bin of blocks when the infant care teacher asks what the child wants to play with. Resources: Introduce a stuffed animal and talk about her daily routine; Children name family members using their picture of family EQ #2: What's It Like Where I Live?EQ #3 What's at School?EQ #4 Where Else Do We Go?   Language & Emerging Literacy   At around 36 months of age, children demonstrate understanding of the meaning of others’ comments, questions, requests, or stories.At around 36 months of age, children communicate in a way that is understandable to most adults who speak the same language they do. Children combine words into simple sentences and demonstrate the ability to follow some grammatical rules of the home language. At around 36 months of age, children engage in back-and-forth conversations that contain a number of turns, with each turn building upon what was said in the previous turn. At around 36 months of age, children show appreciation for books and initiate literacy activities: listening, asking questions, or making comments while being read to; looking at books on their own; or making scribble marks on paper and pretending to read what is written.   video or evidence of students who will:Look for a stuffed bear when the infant care teacher asks, “Where’s your bear?” Get the bin of blocks when the infant care teacher asks what the child wants to play with. Know the names of most objects in the immediate environment. Show understanding of the meaning of a story by laughing at the funny parts or by asking questions.   EQ #1:Introduce a stuffed animal and talk about her daily routine.Children name family members using their picture of familyplaying with toy vehicles to provide a good opportunity to talk with children about ways they travel to schooldecorate a frame for their family picture Curriculum mapper

21. New technology means money, capacity, training and person-power (maintenance, monitoring, on-call support) • Training staff • A Training the Trainers model • Establishing “buy in” • Internalizing a data driven culture • Video storage • Next Steps Challenges (the people make it or break it)

22. Baker, C. (2001). Foundations of bilingual education and bilingualism. Multilingual Matters: Tonawanda, NY. Cummins, J. (1980). The construct of language proficiency in bilingual education. In J. E. Alatis (Ed.), Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics. Georgetown University Press: Washington, DC. Grosjean, F. (1996). Living with two languages and two cultures. In I. Parasnis (Ed.), Cultural and language diversity and the deaf experience (pp. 20-37). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. Johnson, R. (2002). Using data to close the achievement gap: How to measure equity in our schools. Corwin Press: Thousand Oaks, CA. Krashen, S. (1981). Second language acquisition and second language learning. Pergamon Press: Oxford, England. References