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English Learner Road Map

CABE and Californians Together awarded two $5 million EWIG grants by California Department of Education

May 18, 2020 by Claudia Vizcarra

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Californians Together and the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE) are proud to launch two complementary $5M Educator Workforce Incentive Grants awarded by the California Department of Education.  Both grants are designated to support implementation of the visionary and comprehensive California English Learner Roadmap Policy.  

In recognition of the need to build capacity throughout the state in order to implement the recent comprehensive CA English Learner Roadmap policy, the California legislature earmarked $10 million in Educator Workforce Incentive Grants that were awarded by the California Department of Education in March 2020 just before COVID-19 became a grim reality for our state.  The result is a pivotal moment for English learner/dual language learner education in California - a moment of elevated needs resulting from lost schooling and access for English learners due to COVID-19, an urgent crossroads for groundbreaking English learner policy in a state lacking capacity to implement, and an opportunity to bring resources and research-based responses into the hands of educators as tools to address both the educational harms resulting from the pandemic and to simultaneously pursue a vision of powerful dual language schooling for our state.  

CABE’s Multilingual California Project, is an effort of the Multilingual California Alliance involving five County Offices of Education (San Diego, Orange, San Bernardino, Fresno and Butte) and Diego State University along with at least 20 statewide LEAs. An Advisory Council comprised of renowned experts in the field of Biliteracy and English Learners will collaborate and support this effort.

Californians Together’s EL RISE! (English Learner Roadmap Implementation for Systemic Excellence!) is a collaboration with two other lead agencies: Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL) and Loyola Marymount University’s Center for Equity for English Learners (CEEL), the National Resource Center for Asian Languages, and 20 County Offices of Education.

Together, these sister grants will reach educators throughout the state, engaging counties serving 94% of the English Learners in California schools.

EL RISE! And Multilingual California  build on many decades of a close relationship between Californians Together and CABE as leading voices for English Learner and bilingual education in California. We are committed to sharing lessons learned and resources developed across the two grants.  

While Multilingual California and EL RISE! differ in specific strategies and offerings, they share the goals of preparing educators to enact the vision and principles of the CA English Learner Roadmap and of building system mechanisms to centralize the needs of English Learners, thus dramatically accelerating academic and multilingual opportunities and outcomes of English Learners across California. 

Our two grants will do this by:

  • Building widespread awareness and foundational understanding of the EL Roadmap policy’s vision, mission and principles.  
  • Developing the capacity of county offices of education to support LEAs to improve programs and services for English Learners PreK-16 and to work with LEAs in data-driven, locally designed, research-based continuous improvement processes.
  • Designing delivery mechanisms and special content to support educators in the need to build capacity for distance learning, hybrid instructional delivery, and new configurations of schooling required to address public health urgencies of schooling during a pandemic, and provide approaches to educational recovery and socioemotional learning in response to harms resulting from COVID-19.
  • Emphasizing and addressing the preschool through higher education vision of the EL Roadmap involving partners and directing professional learning across that spectrum.
  • Avoiding one-size-fits-all approaches to implementing the EL Roadmap by facilitating local planning processes and shaping professional learning options to build capacity addressing the different contexts and priorities and needs of schools across the state.  
  • Focusing on local planning efforts through which cross-role teams and leadership, inclusive of parents and families, develop shared understanding of the EL Roadmap, understanding of their English Learner student needs and develop local plans for professional learning and implementation.
  • Providing coherent professional learning across roles that is assets-oriented, role-specific, supported through coaching and/or communities of practice, and builds upon the most recent research consensus on dual language development, effective instructional pedagogy for English Learners in both English-instructed and dual-language programs contexts.  
  • Building skills and strategies for implementing EL Roadmap-aligned evidence based instructional practices that effectively develop academic content knowledge, discipline-specific practices, academic language, integrated and designated English language development, and multilingual and multiliterate proficiency.
  • Supporting the development of strengthened data and progress monitoring systems to provide transparency into English Learner/dual language achievement, and to serve as the foundation for continuous improvement.
  • Creating professional networks across the state to share resources.

TIMELINE:   May 2020-June 2023

FURTHER INFORMATION:

  • Link for EL RISE! Abstract
  • Link for Multilingual California Abstract: 

CONTACTS:  

CABE:  Rubí Flores, Acting Director for Professional Learning rubi@gocabe.org

Californians Together: Martha Hernández, Deputy Director martha@californianstogether.org

Filed Under: Blog, Home-Latest Tagged With: CABE, Californians Together, Educator Workforce, English Learner Road Map, EWIG, Teacher Workforce

An Important Survey We Must Act On Now!

October 22, 2019 by Claudia Vizcarra

Our Voices are Urgently Needed NOW!

We need 10-15 minutes of your time to send a message to the State. There is a very important survey that can have a tremendous effect on the education of English Learners.

If we don’t respond, others will decide what should be included in the new design of the Local Control Accountability Plan Template for the next 3 years. The survey will take about 10 minutes, and we have some suggestions for your responses but you are welcome to respond how you best see the work moving forward.

Local Control Accountability Plan Template Redesign for 2020-2022 LCAPs:

This year, districts will be writing and submitting a new three-year LCAP using a redesigned LCAP template. This is our opportunity to urge the California Department of Education (CDE) and the State Board of Education (SBE) to include language that will require districts to comprehensively address English Learners. This survey must be completed by November 1, 2019.

The CDE has developed a survey to solicit feedback from stakeholders regarding both the draft Local Control and Accountability Plan Template (LCAP) and draft LCAP Template instructions. The survey may be accessed here: https://www.lcapredesign.org/

Based on feedback from the State Board of Education (SBE) at its September 2019 meeting, and in an effort to ensure the template and instructions support local educational agencies (LEAs) in the development of the LCAP beyond the minimum requirements, it has been decided that the CDE will present the finalized draft LCAP Template (including instructions) to the SBE at its January 2020 meeting for adoption.

Important points to address in the survey: Read the form and the directions and add short comments on the right-hand side of the survey under “Feedback about this section”.

·     Stakeholder Engagement: We suggest you choose Option A. The form and directions include language to indicate how input was received and where any of the suggestions from the important stakeholders are included in the LCAP. This validates the input from parents, students and community members and affirms that their input was heard and some suggestions were accepted.

·     Goal and Activities: In the directions under Measuring and Reporting Results for both options (which will be available to the districts to choose) there is language that says, “LEAs may identify metrics for specific subgroup”. In order to live up the equity principle of LCFF and to have districts commit to closing any achievement and performance gaps, the language should require that metrics are specific for subgroups and are differentiated from what is expected of all students so as to set an expectation of closing gaps. It is also important for the districts to include metrics specific for current English Learners and RFEPs.

Don’t let others decide what is needed for the LCAP Template for the next three years.

We need to be heard and you can make it happen.

Filed Under: Action Alerts Tagged With: English Learner Road Map, English Learner Roadmap, LCFF/LCAP

The English Learner Roadmap Teacher Toolkits

August 20, 2019 by Claudia Vizcarra

Click here to learn more about the complete set of the English Learner Roadmap Toolkits!

 

Filed Under: Newsletters Tagged With: English Language Development, English Learner Road Map, English Learners

Releasing the new set of English Learner Roadmap Teacher Toolkits

August 20, 2019 by Claudia Vizcarra

We are pleased to announce the release of the set of English Learner Roadmap Teacher Toolkits.

These Toolkits are designed to help teachers understand and make-meaning of the EL Roadmap policy in classroom terms.  Tools for individual and collective assessment of practices through the lens of the EL Roadmap principles enable teachers to hone in on their own professional learning needs and priorities.  Thinking beyond the classroom, the tools help teachers think about the kinds of supports and services needed in their school to support English learners. Finally, each Toolkit lists resources teachers can access for their own learning and for their participation in school and district level dialogues about enhancing instructional practices and programs.

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Elementary School Teacher Toolkit

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Middle School Teacher Toolkit

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High School Teacher Toolkit

Go to our English Learner Roadmap Teacher Toolkit Page

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