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English Learner Advisory Committee

Comité Consultivo para Alumnos que Aprenden Inglés

Attendance Advice

Training and Information Legal Task 4:

English Learner Needs Assessment

Attendance Advice

Entrenamiento e Información Tarea Legal 4:

Evaluación de Necesidades de Aprendientes de Inglés

Objective: Training for Legal Task 4- Needs Assessment Survey

Say: This is a training for ELAC to Create an English Learner Needs Assessment for our English Learner parents. We will discuss how to use the information we gather once the survey is complete and we have the results back from our parents.

Remember for all ELAC Legal Task Trainings, in order to be in compliance, you must:

Have a sign-in sheet, handouts
binder to keep all your documentation in
Take meeting minutes as part of your documentation.
Check your ELAC binder or https://www.sandi.net/staff/language-acquisition/elac-meetings-planning-and-documenting
FOR THIS TASK: a timeline must be created in which dates are recorded for

When survey goes to EL parents,
When survey will be returned,
When the results will be shared and publicized (can be in agenda, minutes and posted in school hall where meeting agendas are posted.

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ELAC

Attendance Asistencia

razones de asistir cada día
asistencia - consejos a otros padres - consejos a la directora

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Agenda

Welcome
Read Minutes /Approval
Legal Tasks: Attendance & Review Needs Assessment Results
ELPAC update
New students
Exhibition & Promotion, 06/14
ELAC Advice
DELAC Report
New Members
Roundtable/Closing

Bienvenida
Leer y Aprobar Actas
Preguntas Guía
Asistencia & Resultados de la evaluación de necesidades
ELPAC
Nuevos estudiantes
Promocion 14 de junio
Exhibicion
Consejo de ELAC
Reporte de DELAC
Miembros Nuevos
Comentario/Cierre

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English Learner Needs Assessment

Evaluación de Necesidades

What is a needs assessment?

Teams collect and examine data from a variety of sources and identify priority need areas for English learners. �Focus on the needs.

¿Qué es una evaluación de necesidades?

Los equipos recopilan y analizan datos de una variedad de fuentes e identifican áreas de necesidad prioritarias para aprendientes de inglés. �Enfoque en las necesidades.

5 min.

Objective: to introduce the task: English Learner Needs Assessment - Activity directions below

SAY: The purpose is to find out what parents needs are concerning information important to ELs:

EL services Servicios para EL
EL Assessments Examenes Estatales
ELAC
Resources for parent information recursos de informacion para familias
Needs of ELs and parents

SAY:

The English Learner Needs Assessment is a survey of EL parents

ELAC uses the information to ADVISE the school on what ACTIONS TO TAKE
Learn about the needs of EL parents and their knowledge of services available
advise the principal about how best to share the information with EL parents
Gives parents a chance to express how they would like to receive the information

TABLE TALK Activity Directions- Click on Table Talk to get the handouts :

copy and print questions.
Cut into strips for parents to choose out of an envelope.
The committee will discuss their knowledge about these topics “Know / Don’t Know” activity.
How do parents at the school want to receive the info? (this work will be done in dedicated task meeting)
Chart with options: written/email (hyperdoc with links to resources), meeting, conference, resources fair type event.

Survey can be shared via GOOGLE FORMS

Resources:

https://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/ca/documents/elpacpgtu.pdf

http://www.smarterbalanced.org/parents/

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English Learner Advisory Committee

Comité Consultivo para Alumnos que Aprenden Inglés

Legal Task 4:

English Learner Needs Assessment

Part 2

Tarea Legal 4: Evaluación de Necesidades de Aprendientes de Inglés

2da Parte

Objective: Training for Legal Task 4- Needs Assessment Survey

Remember: Have a sign-in sheet, handouts if any, and a binder to put your documentation in. Take meeting minutes as part of your documentation. Check your ELAC binder or https://www.sandi.net/staff/language-acquisition/elac-meetings-planning-and-documenting

Say: This is a training for ELAC to Create an English Learner Needs Assessment for our English Learner parents. We will discuss how to use the information we gather once the survey is complete and we have the results back from our parents.

Remember for all ELAC Legal Task Trainings, in order to be in compliance, you must:

Have a sign-in sheet, handouts
binder to keep all your documentation in
Take meeting minutes as part of your documentation.
Check your ELAC binder or https://www.sandi.net/staff/language-acquisition/elac-meetings-planning-and-documenting
FOR THIS TASK: a timeline must be created in which dates are recorded for

When survey goes to EL parents,
When survey will be returned,
When the results will be shared and publicized (can be in agenda, minutes and posted in school hall where meeting agendas are posted.

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Needs Assessment Results:

Resultados de la Evaluación de Necesidades:

What information do our parents need?

What are parents interested in learning?

¿Qué información necesitan los padres?

¿Qué les interesa aprender a los padres?

10 Min. Objective: To inform ELAC about what their tasks will be after the survey is completed, discuss implications of results (school communication with parents)

SAY: Now that the survey is completed, here are our results:

(Give your results regarding which questions need to be addressed by the school) A sample matrix for sharing results is found in the ELAC Advisor Training Binder.

How to review results: (from ELAC Advisor Training Binder)

Chair introduces EL Needs Assessment to members
ELAC discusses things parents feel are going well at the site
ELAC discusses area/s of need
ELAC brainstorms ways in which the site could address or improve upon the area/s of need. Who will assist to improve any area of need? How will action be monitored or reported back to the ELAC?

Encourage parents to make their advice actionable. ie: if parent need information, create posters, ELAC shares/presents at a coffee with the principal, make robo-call

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English Learner Needs Assessment

Evaluación de Necesidades

Needs Assessment Results from March

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Needs Assessment Results:

Resultados de la Evaluación de Necesidades:

What information do our parents need?

What are parents interested in learning?

¿Qué información necesitan los padres?

¿Qué les interesa aprender a los padres?

10 Min. Objective: To inform ELAC about what their tasks will be after the survey is completed, discuss implications of results (school communication with parents)

SAY: Now that the survey is completed, here are our results:

(Give your results regarding which questions need to be addressed by the school) A sample matrix for sharing results is found in the ELAC Advisor Training Binder.

How to review results: (from ELAC Advisor Training Binder)

Chair introduces EL Needs Assessment to members
ELAC discusses things parents feel are going well at the site
ELAC discusses area/s of need
ELAC brainstorms ways in which the site could address or improve upon the area/s of need. Who will assist to improve any area of need? How will action be monitored or reported back to the ELAC?

Encourage parents to make their advice actionable. ie: if parent need information, create posters, ELAC shares/presents at a coffee with the principal, make robo-call

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Action Plan:

Plan de Acción:

School Actions

ELAC Actions

Acciones Escolares

Acciones del ELAC

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ELAC Advice to the Principal:

Los consejos de

ELAC al Director:

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Roundtable/Closing

Comentarios/Cierre