State-Lang Policy Massachusetts Brainstorm (Ashley, Lila, Makayla) by Ashley E https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v en-us 2022-09-27 19:03:16 UTC 2025-09-25 06:04:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Massachusetts Law allowing Bilingual Education and parents getting to choose a program for their children - Ashley ashleye329 https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318119797 2022-09-28 18:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318119797 DESE "Blueprint for ELLs" - Lila lilakp10 https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318123016 https://www.doe.mass.edu/ele/blueprint/dashboard.html
Asset-based and positive language. However, it is focused on English learning.]]> 2022-09-28 19:02:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318123016 "English-Only" law in Massachusetts repealed anti-bilingual laws in 2017 -Ashley ashleye329 https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318126822 https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/english-only-laws-in-education-on-verge-of-extinction/2019/10]]> 2022-09-28 19:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318126822 On Bilingual Education - Lila lilakp10 https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318127812 https://www.doe.mass.edu/ele/programs/dle.html

"First, bilingual approaches should be used when working with ELs in order to allow students' cognitive and social emotional development to be continuous. As students are learning English and learning to do school work in and through English, they are engaged in age-appropriate learning tasks in their home language that are cognitively challenging and encourage critical thinking."]]> 2022-09-28 19:05:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318127812 Massachusetts Demographics - Ashley ashleye329 https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318132019 https://www.census.gov/library/stories/state-by-state/massachusetts-population-change-between-census-decade.html]]> 2022-09-28 19:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318132019 Monitoring of Programs - Lila lilakp10 https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318133496 https://www.doe.mass.edu/ele/cpr/default.html
"As one part of its accountability system, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education oversees local compliance with education requirements through Tiered Focused Monitoring (TFM). All reviews cover selected requirements of the following areas: Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; The Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 (EEOA); the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA); Massachusetts General Laws c. 69, 71A, 71B, and 76; and Chapter 218 of the Massachusetts Acts of 2002. Districts are reviewed every six years through TFM except the districts that repeat as Tier 4 for three consecu"]]> 2022-09-28 19:09:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318133496 Perspective of teachers - Ashley ashleye329 https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318136835 2022-09-28 19:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318136835 Chapter 218 - Lila lilakp10 https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318141796 https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2002/Chapter218

Uses the term "Limited English Proficient" to describe ELLs, and has since changed "transitional bilingual programs" to "English Language Learners Programs"]]> 2022-09-28 19:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318141796 MABE - Ashley ashleye329 https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318142288 https://www.cal.org/ndlf/members/mabe/

]]> 2022-09-28 19:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318142288 Chapter 386 - Makayla https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318153546 2022-09-28 19:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318153546 Question 2 (2002) - Lila lilakp10 https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318153734 "all public school children must be taught English by being taught all subjects in English and being placed in English language classrooms."]]> 2022-09-28 19:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318153734 Repealed... but not really? (2017) - Lila lilakp10 https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318154479 New law still focuses heavily on English, and seems to provide Bilingual Ed more for English-speakers than Spanish-speakers.

"The proposed law would require public schools to educate English learners (children who cannot do ordinary classwork in English and who either do not speak English or whose native language is not English) through a sheltered English immersion program, normally not lasting more than one year. In the program, all books and nearly all teaching would be in English, with the curriculum designed for children learning English, although a teacher could use a minimal amount of a child’s native language when necessary. Schools would be encouraged to place in the same classroom children who are from different native-language groups but who have the same level of English skills. Once a student is able to do regular schoolwork in English, the student would be transferred to an English language mainstream classroom. These requirements would not affect special education programs for physically or mentally impaired students or foreign language classes for children who already know English.
Parents or guardians of certain children could apply each year to have the requirements waived, so as to place their child in bilingual education or other classes, if the parents or guardians visit the school to be informed, in a language they can understand, about all available options. To obtain a waiver, the child must either
  1. already know English; or
  2. be at least 10 years old, and the school principal and staff believe that another course of study would be better for the child’s educational progress and rapid learning of English; or
  3. have special physical or psychological needs (other than lack of English skills), have already spent 30 days in an English language classroom during that school year, the school principal and staff document their belief that the child’s special needs make another course of study better for the child’s educational progress and rapid learning of English, and the school superintendent approves the waiver.
If 20 or more students in one grade level at a school receive waivers, the school would have to offer either bilingual education classes providing instruction in both the student’s native language and English or classes using other generally recognized educational methodologies permitted by law. In other cases, a student receiving a waiver would have to be allowed to transfer to a school offering such classes."
]]> 2022-09-28 19:24:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2318154479 Transitional Bilingual Education in Massachusetts - Makayla https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2335990235 http://www.danielallansullivan.com/work/policy-research/transitional-bilingual-education-in-massachusetts/]]> 2022-10-11 21:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleye329/niqdomfnzb0q0m6v/wish/2335990235