ELD Department News
January 2015 Keeping you in the know!
ACCESS for ELLs 2015
Processing will take place at the West Support Center Warehouse located at 701 Prairie Hawk Drive, Castle Rock, 80108. (NOT THE FORMER Assessment Warehouse).
You will enter through door E or F.
Processing Directions may be found here. All bubbling, sorting, and organization MUST be complete prior to attending processing. If you have a specific question regarding processing, please do not hesitate to ask.
Processing Times are posted on the ACCESS Organizational Google site. If you are unable to attend during your assigned time, you MUST send your SAC or school administrator.
Newly Identified English Learners: Students enrolling on or after Monday, February 2, 2015 will not need to take ACCESS. ** Please note: You have 2 weeks to administer the W-APT and to identify a student as an English Learner.
Y1 and Y2 Monitoring Accountability
- Make a copy of the form.
- Rename the form to include your school acronym and school year. Example: CSE 14-15: Year 1 and Year 2 Monitor Documentation Form.
- Enter the information necessary.
- Click on the folder on the top of the document, and save your school's form to the 14-15 Year 1 and Year 2 Monitor Documentation Forms
- Email Remy and cc Robin Carey and Christina Levesque if a student needs to be reclassified as an active English Learner.
If you have already started this process, please simply file your google spreadsheet in the shared folder.
High School ESL Teachers . . . Field Trip Opportunity!!
Please read this message from Becky Corr.
Hi all! We need your input! We're trying to see if there is enough interest in a college visit for 2 buses. We'd love to get more areas of DCSD involved in a college visit and we're hoping to get your input on how to do that. Please complete this survey by next Friday,Feb. 6th. Thank you!
Shared Backward Plans - Share Your Thinking!
A new page has been added to the District ELD Google site called "Shared Backward Plans". This is a place where you may link your backward plan, look at how others are creating backward plans, and get ideas from your colleagues. You all have "editing rights" to this page of the site. To share your plan, you will be asked to complete the Backward Planning Sharing Form. On the District ELD site, you will see both the form and the response spreadsheet.
Before you share . . .
- make a copy of your plan - and then share the copy.
- change your sharing settings to "Anyone with a link can VIEW".
- remove any comments you do not wish to share (see above!)
More good stuff . . .
Thanks for sharing, Jen and Robin! If you find a great article, send it on over!!
RtI-Based SLD Identification Toolkit
5 Ways to Give Your Students More Voice and Choice
In the WIDA Download Library:
Looking Ahead . . .
To see specific details about the following events, see the ELD Calendar on the District ELD Google Site.
February 4, 2015 ACCESS Processing Google Hangout
February 11 & 13, 2015 ACCESS ProcessingFebruary 17, 2015 ELD Support Session - ECC South (Castle Rock)
March 4, 2015 ELD Support Session - West Support Center (Castle Rock)
April 22, 2015 ELD Department Meeting
April 30, 2015 ESL Celebration
See InspirED for current ELD course offerings for:
ELD and SPED
Essential Actions
Academic Conversations (coming soon!)