Leadership & Family and Community Empowerment

• Establishing strong community partnerships
• Effective parent, family, and community engagement activities
• Ensuring equitable access to emergent bilingual students and their families
• Developing a school/classroom environment that is responsive to the needs of students and families of diverse backgrounds
• Leveraging resources to support emergent bilingual students

Staffing and Professional Development

• Creating a recruitment and retention plan
• Planning a comprehensive professional development plan that is responsive to campus and district needs
• Training on primary language literacy and strategies for making cross-linguistic connections, culturally and linguistically sustaining practices, content based language instruction, and the Texas English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)

Curriculum and Resources

• Culturally and linguistically sustaining practices, curriculum, assessments and resources aligned to program goals
• Structuring academic content instruction to ensure mastery of TEKS, higher order thinking skills, and academic proficiency (L, S, R, W) in English.
• Planning content based language instruction that is, communicated (context-embedded resources, accessible language, repeated practice), sequenced (explicit language instruction, connections to prior learning) and/or scaffolded (modeling, structured language supports, task-based approach)