Lever 5 Essential Action:
Collaborative development open to all stakeholders of a curriculum, assessments, and resources aligned to the ESL program goals.
Curriculum is researched and standard-based, addressing the goals of the ESL program.
5.1.a - Standard-based curriculum that supports English language and academic development as well as global awareness across content areas.
5.1.b - Curriculum that targets and supports second language acquisition and literacy development.
Curriculum includes:
• asset-based resources
• Linguistically Sustaining Practices
• addressing students’ prior knowledge
• a multilingual perspective that embraces translanguaging
• meaningful practices that target the language domains
5.2.a - Authentic, asset-based resources, including Linguistically Sustaining Practices addressing all learning modalities are provided in other languages, as available.
5.2.b - High quality, authentic, supplemental resources provided in a variety of languages.
Curriculum and resources ensure that campus and district level assessments:
• include Linguistically Sustaining Practices
• are linguistically accommodated, as needed
• support student agency
• include alternative methods of assessment such as portfolios or other student work
5.3.a - Observation tools to monitor student growth in language, literacy, and content knowledge.
5.3.b - Assessments include:
- linguistically accommodated formative and summative assessments
- teacher and student assessment tools to assess the development of English across subjects and grade levels
- Linguistically Sustaining Practices
- performance-based assessment tools
5.3.c - Have systematized conversations with students to build awareness of their metacognitive and metalinguistic strengths and develop student agency in goal setting and monitoring linguistic growth.
5.3.d - Systems in place for data-driven assessments based on best practices for emergent bilingual students by standards and student language proficiency level.
ESL program has continuous improvement processes.
5.4.a - Decisions and planning for ESL student support and success.
5.4.b - Systematized conversation with students to develop goal-setting and monitor linguistic growth that includes state and local assessments such as TELPAS to foster student ownership.
5.4.c - Campus and District Improvement Plans (CIP/DIP) include a continuous improvement process aligned to TEKS and ELPS that is student-centered.