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2021 ELS Plan Part 4- ELS Committee/ Planning/ additional growth assessment guidance

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2021 ELS Plan Part 3- ACCESS  Accommodations

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2021 ELS Plan Part 2- Test Participation/ SOL Accommodations

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2021 ELS Plan Part 1- EL Characteristics

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Ellevation: ML Program Management Tools for K-12

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Ellevation: EL Program Management & Teaching Tools: K-12

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Ellevation is the first and most powerful suite of tools designed specifically for professionals serving English Language Learners. Ellevation saves school districts time, while teachers maximize

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The Importance of ELL Strategies - Immersion (Moises in Math Class)

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Online platform for class discussions and sharing ideas in a new way.

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Massachusetts Now Requires Flu Vaccine for All Students
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The state will allow exemptions, but announced on Aug. 19, 2020 that the "new vaccine requirement is an important step to reduce flu-related illness and ​the overall impact of respiratory illness during the COVID-19 pandemic."

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Massachusetts Now Requires Flu Vaccine for All Students 8/20/2020 - The state will allow exemptions, but announced on Aug. 19, 2020 that the "new vaccine requirement is an important step to reduce flu-related illness and ​the overall impact of respiratory illness during the COVID-19 pandemic."

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Expository Texts in multiple lexile levels

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In this edition of Conversations with Tim, Tim speaks with Rosalie Lincoln and Cathy Moses about their work in the Lower Kuskokwim School District in Alaska to preserve and revitalize the Yugtun language.

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WIDA develops and provides proven tools and support to help multilingual learners, and their educators, succeed.

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English Learner Tool Kit Updated with ESSA references. OELA's EL Tool Kit was published in 2015 as a companion to support the 2015 Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) produced by the Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, and the Department of Justice, outlining legal obligations for ELs. Some chapters of the tool kit have been updated related to the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA).

The English Learner Tool Kit helps state and local education agencies help English Learners (ELs) by fulfilling these obligations.

The Toolkit has 10 chapters (one for each section of the DCL), and contains an overview, sample tools, and resources.

New Download the entire English Learner Tool Kit (PDF, 9MB)

Introduction

Chapters

To request the tool kit in an alternate format as a reasonable accommodation, i.e. Braille, large print, CD Rom or audio, please contact Melissa Escalante by phone, 202-401-1407 or via email at: Melissa.Escalante@ed.gov.

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English Learner Tool Kit Updated with ESSA references. OELA's EL Tool Kit was published in 2015 as a companion to support the 2015 Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) produced by the Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, and the Department of Justice, outlining legal obligations for ELs.

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More than 8 in 10 public high school students in the United States are graduating with a diploma. Beginning with the class of 2011, federal regulations required each state to calculate graduation rates using a method known as the Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR). With the exception of Idaho, all states and the District of Columbia have reported ACGR rates.

Based on those state-reported data, the U.S. Department of Education indicates that the nation's graduation rate stands at 81 percent for the class of 2013. Graduation rates for historically disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups remain substantially below those of their white and Asian peers. Nineteen percentage points, for instance, separate graduation rates for American Indian and Asian students.
Browse the 2012-2013 state and national data:
Source: Graduation rates are calculated by states using the Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR) method, as reported by the U.S. Department of Education.
Visualization: Chienyi Cheri Hung, Stacey Decker
Note: For Asian students, Maine's graduation rate (listed above as 95%) is greater than or equal to 95%.

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Map: Graduation Rates by State, Student Group

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More than 8 in 10 public high school students in the United States are graduating with a diploma. Beginning with the class of 2011, federal regulations required each state to calculate graduation rates using a method known as the Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR).

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Assessment Principles and Guidelines for ELLs with Disabilities 

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TED ED lesson on bilinguilism and the brain

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The benefits of a bilingual brain - Mia Nacamulli

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It’s obvious that knowing more than one language can make certain things easier — like traveling or watching movies without subtitles. But are there other advantages to having a bilingual (or multilingual) brain? Mia Nacamulli details the three types of bilingual brains and shows how knowing more…

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Bruno Morales- bruno.morales@nn.k12.va.us
Shana Hollis- shana.hollis@nn.k12.va.us

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A suite of secure, large-scale, summative English language proficiency assessmentsACCESS for ELLs (ACCESS) is the collective name for WIDA's suite of summative English language proficiency assessments. ACCESS is taken annually by English learners in kindergarten through grade 12 in WIDA Consortium member states.

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Rewordify.com | Understand what you read

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Rewordify.com helps you read more, understand better, learn new words, and teach more effectively.

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Since launching on March 6, 2007, our goal at TeacherTube has been to provide an online community for sharing instructional and education videos for college students, high school students, middle school students and elementary school students. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, students, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. It is also a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.

On September 1, 2017, TeacherTube.com was acquired by Salem Web Network. Salem's goal is to continue the growth of TeacherTube and support innovative ideas for education.

Most importantly, TeacherTube community members are a major part of the evolution of the site. Members are encouraged to not only upload educationally relevant videos but also to make constructive comments and use the rating system to show appreciation for videos of value to one as an educator or learner. Users also have the ability to preserve the integrity of the site by flagging inappropriate videos. TeacherTube staff review flagged sites and will remove any inappropriate posts. With more collegial commentary and discussion through messaging and responses, the quality of this resource will only increase.

The service is free for everyone. We always encourage our users to Contact Us with thoughts, suggestions, or other feedback. We do have a vision for TeacherTube to truly be a better alternative to other video storage sites. With the community's help, it can become more interactive and engaging for all teachers and learners.

Science videos are one of the key subjects that students are taught in school. Science is present from the early years of grade school up to the highest levels of academic achievement. As students move up the ranks, their study of science tends to get more specialized into one specific field only, like chemistry, biology, or physics. We have educational videos for all of these courses.

TeacherTube.com's section on science educational videos has content of interest to all learning levels. We have topics as varied as educational songs for elementary school students, up to chemical engineering for college students.

Mathematics is one of the fundamental 3Rs of early education. Known as "arithmetic" in those levels, it involves counting and the basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. As kids advance through the grade levels, they progressively deal with more complex mathematical problems. Also, more new concepts get introduced as they progress.

Math is crucial for almost any business career. Accounting, budgeting, and projecting sales all require some level of competence in math. Many resources for these topics can be found here on TeacherTube.

Even everyday situations benefit a lot from math skills. Managing one's finances, for instance, obviously requires math, as with anything involving money. Cooking also involves math: proportions of ingredients, for example, as well as measurements.

TeacherTube.com's section on math education videos covers everything from fractions and measurements to money management. We also cover more complicated subjects such as trigonometry, and well as probability and statistics.

History is a very valuable subject, but not just because it is useful for preventing future wars. The lessons from history can also teach people to build a better future. What people have done right in the past should be continued and improved upon in the present.

The subject of history covers a wide range of timelines and locations. There's ancient history and modern history. There is also Asian history, US history, Latin American history, and European history. Each one is unique, reflecting the cultures of the people involved.

If there's one thing common to all history classes, it's usually names, dates, and places. This is also the part that many kids hate the most. They do not see the point of memorizing so many random facts that appear purposeless. Well, that is the wrong way to teach history.

TeacherTube's history education videos section makes the past come alive with a sterling array of videos and tutorials that cover subjects as varied as our prehistory, ancient history, the civil war, and the study of world civilizations.

The purpose of social studies, based on the US National Council for the Social Studies, is to promote "civic competence" among students. In other words, the subject equips students to become better citizens of a country. This is done by exploring history, geography, current events, and governments, among others. Middle school social studies usually deal with one of each of these fields per grade level.

With this knowledge, students gain the ability to become more socially aware and to be actively involved citizens of their country. Through analyzing current events, students will also learn how to predict the consequences of the things happening around them. With that, they can be good influences on their communities.

It is with this goal in mind that TeacherTube offers a wide variety of learning video materials for both students and enthusiasts.

We have videos on everything from strengthening your knowledge of economics terminology to the nuances of various world cultures.

Language arts, as the name suggests, equips students with a wide range of ways to use language. It comprises both speaking and writing skills. In addition to the basics, the subject also deals with the artistic side of language, infusing creativity in the ways students communicate.

There are four basic aspects to understanding a language: speaking, reading, listening, and writing. Language arts classes aim to enhance those skills at each year level. At first, it covers basic topics like grammar, sentence construction, and paragraphs. Exercises in language arts become progressively more complex as students move up the ranks, and usually, in higher grades, more emphasis is put on creativity and persuasiveness.

With the noble goal of harnessing the power of words to effect change in the world in mind, TeacherTube is proud to offer videos on everything from general communications to speaking and even videos on strengthening your studying skills.

Not all kids want to go through lectures. Some of them may not have the attention span or the patience to endure long hours just sitting down and listening to someone talk in front. No, that doesn't mean these kids are lazy. It just means they learn differently.

Some kids are auditory learners. In other words, they learn best when they listen to sounds and music. For this type of student, educational songs will certainly be a big helping hand. Even the most complex of concepts, when taught through songs, will be very easy for them to understand and remember. Even kids who are not so much inclined to auditory learning may like this method.

Educational song vidoes are available in a wide variety of subjects. English, math, social studies, science, and everything in between, there's bound to be a song for every subject. For example, on the website Teachertube.com, there are science topic songs, reading songs, skip counting songs, reading phonics songs, and even quadratic formula songs.

The advantage of using educational song videos is that it accomplishes two things at once. First, these songs are entertaining, and second, they also teach a concept. They facilitate learning a lot better than plain lectures simply because of the entertainment part. When a lesson is made fun of, kids will want to learn them. In fact, it could even be the kids themselves, on their own, who will play the songs repeatedly.

TeacherTube offers education songs on topics as varied as the circulatory system to math songs about polynomials and even videos on St. Patrick's Day.

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Language Acquisition and Scaffolding Resources

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Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

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ReadWorks | Award-Winning, EdTech Nonprofit Organization

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ReadWorks is an edtech nonprofit organization that is committed to helping to solve America's reading comprehension crisis.

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How the Brain Benefits from Being Bilingual Blog Post and infograph

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I learned about it through Katie Lepi at Edudemic, who wrote a nice post sharing additional information on the same topic.

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Infographic: "How the Brain Benefits from Being Bilingual"

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Sentence Starters for Social situations 

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ThingLink: Create unique experiences with interactive images, videos & 360° media

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icivics--interactive way to learn civics! 

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The iCivics games place students in different civic roles and give them agency to address real-world problems and issues. They are rooted in clear learning objectives and integrated with lesson plans and support materials.

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In this new Private i History Detectives unit, Elementary students analyze primary sources to discover how Constitutional Amendments attempted to address slavery's wrongs, how the courts challenged unfair laws, and how individuals and groups fought for civil rights.

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It was, she remembered, the first standing ovation she ever received as a librarian.

Laura Fleming was working at an elementary school in River Edge, N.J., one of those tiny suburban school districts across the river from Manhattan. It was 2009, she'd been working in education for 12 years and she'd long been searching for books that would engage her students. But each fall, it seemed, they arrived less interested in the books she loved.

Fleming often felt like a stand-up comedian in a smoky nightclub. "You have that go-to joke that always gets the crowd going," she said with a laugh. But all of a sudden, her material wasn't working. The crowd was silent. The books fell flat.

So she began searching for something different. She found a series of young adult novels called Skeleton Creek that embedded Internet URLs into the plot - the links took readers to a series of jittery, handheld Blair Witch style videos, seemingly shot by the protagonists. The videos moved the story along nicely, but mostly they scared the bejeezus out of young readers.

Then Fleming found Inanimate Alice.

Created by British novelist Kate Pullinger and British-Canadian multimedia artist Chris Joseph, Alice blinks, buzzes, hums, sings, jitterbugs, plays games, and, on occasion, rains and snows. Using her laptop, Fleming projected the first Alice story onto a library whiteboard ... and her fifth graders went nuts. The story was immersive like little else, the first piece of fiction that helped them see life through a character's eyes. A few students approached her afterwards to thank her, tears glistening in their eyes.

Welcome to the Brave New World of reading, the clickable, interactive future of books. Just as digital technology is transforming our work, our social lives and our family ties, it's transforming the slow, solitary act of reading. Think beyond paper vs. pixels - this cuts to the very core of what it means to read a book.

What is a book anyway? If players of the brooding, atmospheric computer game Dear Esther can take in a full-blown ghost story simply by wandering over the landscape of a deserted island in Scotland's Hebrides, finding fragments of letters, music and clues as they walk, shouldn't we call that a book?
Related: Digital books could be the new frontier in getting more books into the hands of disadvantaged children
Critics can't seem to agree on a name for this new genre: multimedia online novels, e-books, touchable TV, paratext or technotext. Someone has even suggested "Franken-novel." Most often, though, "transmedia" has stuck. Wired magazine co-founder Kevin Kelly has called them "books we watch or television we read."

Fleming doesn't much care what anybody else calls Alice. "It's a book," she said. Her students read it. They like it. The lines between different media "are so blurred for them" that there's nothing to discuss. Alice's world, she said, "is the world the kids are growing up in."

"Children today deserve adults who are willing to take a close look at this technology, if for no other reason than because it has so much power."

Warren Buckleitner, editor of Children's Technology Review

With a few reservations, Warren Buckleitner might agree. The founder and editor of Children's Technology Review, he pointed out that this is by no means the first time technology has changed the medium. At the turn of the 20 th century, Beatrix Potter was "just another children's author," until she persuaded her publisher to invest in expensive four-color printing, and her books took off. "By using the latest technologies, Beatrix Potter became a rock star," he said.

Buckleitner has spent his career test-driving children's media and has seen it all - the good and the bad. He remains hopeful that e-books, or whatever we call them, can be done right.

"Quality illustration and quality narrative can live in any form, whether it's print or on a screen," he said, and if it's done well, "you can get some real magic."

Related: Are iPads or Chromebooks better for schools?
But magic isn't easy. It took children's author and illustrator Eric Carle six tries and three studios to get the iPad version of his Very Hungry Caterpillar right. My Very Hungry Caterpillar, which debuted last November, "is gorgeous stuff, but it engages children in a way that pulls them in rather than tries to push them," Buckleitner said. The app is wordless and the illustrations invite tiny touchscreen interactions that playfully move the story along.

"At the end of the day, children's books and the whole definition of what is an e-book, it's never been more interesting," he said. "There are more ways for an author to tell stories currently than at any other time."

But whether publishers are using digital tools to tell stories more effectively is open for debate, said Heather Schugar, a researcher at West Chester University. She and her husband, Jordan Schugar, also of West Chester, have studied e-books and found that "interactive" doesn't necessarily mean better. "Most of the features we're seeing are more on the distracting end," she said. "You're making things wiggle and talk, but they're not really supporting the text itself." The Schugars' research has found that students tend to spend more time reading enhanced books, but that they often comprehend less.

A few publishers are starting to get it right, they said. The duo recommend an app of the Judy Sierra/Marc Brown book Wild About Books, in which readers touch the word "stampede," for instance, and trigger a stampede of animals across the page.

"For a child who is reading that book, 'stampede' may or may not be in their vocabulary," Heather Schugar said. "So it visually shows them - it helps them make that inference." Yet in the same book, touching an animal produces, for no good reason, its sound. "That's distracting," she said.

"Book publishers have told us, 'We're putting all of these things in because the more interactive it is, that's what the parents want to buy, that's what's selling,'" she said. "O.K., we get that. Let's think about the quality of what we're putting in. Instead of just having it make a noise, let's have it support what your text does."
Related: How compatible are Common Core and technology?
Most publishers have actually taken a conservative approach to enhanced versions of their books. Children's author William Joyce recalled that his publisher warned him he was "going over to the dark side" when he began experimenting with interactivity. He and Moonbot Studios partner Brandon Oldenburg, based in Shreveport, La., had already begun shooting a short film based on his illustrated book The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, and were using iPhone cameras to set up shots. Then the iPad appeared. They realized that its bigger screen was "exactly what we need," Oldenburg recalled. They decided to create an app that explored the "cool things the tablet could do" that the book couldn't, Joyce said.

"We didn't want to just regurgitate the same experience that you had with the film in a book form or a digital book form," Oldenburg said.

The film won an Academy Award, the book was a New York Times best-seller and the app has been downloaded more than 200,000 times. Moonbot has since created interactive versions of several Joyce titles, including an "augmented reality" app called Imag-n-o-tron that requires users to have the paper book handy. "That was sort of our response to the fear, love and hatred of what we were doing with digital picture books," Oldenburg said. In 2012, Imag-n-o-tron led School Library Journal's list of "Top 10 Apps."

Joyce said the best reason to turn a book into an app is to create "a compelling experience" that the book can't provide. "This is going to happen, so what we have to do is figure out how it can be cool and how it can be an extension of the idea of a book."

Buckleitner, the Children's Technology Review editor, agrees. "Children today deserve adults who are willing to take a close look at this technology," he said, "if for no other reason than because it has so much power."

During a telephone interview, I asked Joyce and Oldenburg about their ground rules for creating compelling experiences. Joyce said he was open to suggestions, which he would jot on a sheet of paper. He later snapped a photo of the paper and e-mailed it to me - during our 23-minute chat, he and Oldenburg came up with six rules, including: "Don't do anything crummy."

Greg Toppo is USA Today's national education and demographics writer. A former teacher, he is the author of the new book The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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