California English Language Development

and Common Core State Standards

Implementation

Leadership Series

February 28, 2014 – Session I

Facilitators:

Yee Wan, EdD., SCCOE Multilingual Education Services Director

Lorena Tariba, MEd., SCCOE Multilingual Education Services Coordinator

Goal

Prepare every English learner for

college and career success!

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Discuss challenges and opportunities of rolling out

concurrent implementation of Common Core State Standards and ELD Standards for districts

Look deeper into the structural design of the 2012 CA

ELD Standards for next steps

Explore strategies of implementation that integrate roll out of Common Core State Standards and ELD

Standards in districts/schools

Objectives

ELD: Before and After

the 2012 CA Standards ELD before…

Mostly limited to Daily ELD Block

Planned separate. Primary focus: Grammar &

Vocabulary – 5 Proficiency levels

SBE-adopted ELD materials were not well aligned with the CELDT

CA ELA Framework did not contain ELD

ELD Standards not aligned to ELA Standards

ELD after…

ELD Block + Integrated to Content Area

Planned also in conjunction with Contact Area Subjects – Modes of Communication included – 3

Proficiency Levels

Future SBE-adopted ELD materials to be aligned with the

New ELPAC

New CA CCSS ELA/ELD Framework contains both sets

of standards

ELD Standards aligned to ELA Standards

Implementation Defined

• im·ple·men·ta·tion

"A specified set of activities designed to put into practice

an activity or program of known dimensions“

• The Active Implementation Frameworks help

define WHAT needs to be done (effective

interventions), HOW to establish what needs to be done

in practice (effective implementation), and WHO will do

the work to accomplish positive outcomes in typical

human service settings. The National Implementation Research Network (NIRN)

What Is Your District’s Framework of

Instructional Initiatives?

Shifts required in

Teaching & Learning Shifts required in

Leading

Admin PLC

Exploration Installation

1. Local Educational Agency/Title III Plans

2. District C & I Plan and CCSS Implementation

3. LCAP Priorities Identified for the next

three years

Exploration Installation

Signature Instructional Practices Initiative:

A District Sample

Learning Objective/

Student Learning Target

Assessment Instruction

Instruction for the FMSD Engaged Learner

Degrees of Implementation

• Read the Degrees of Implementation handout

(Implementation Research: A Synthesis of the

Literature – Dean Fixsen et al. 2005)

• With your team, discuss the Paper, Process and

Performance Implementation stages in relation

to your district’s current efforts to implement the

CCSS and ELD Standards.

“ The use of effective interventions without

implementation strategies is like serum

without a syringe; the cure is available but

the delivery system is not.”

Fixsen, Blase, Duda, Naoom & VanDyke, 2010

Active Implementation

Frameworks

1. Implementation Teams

o Involve variety of stakeholders to drive major

initiatives or interventions

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Active Implementation Frameworks

2. Stages of Implementation You may be at different stages of implementation on

various Core Components

Active Implementation Frameworks

3. Implementation Drivers

Can support or hinder implementation

Competency Drivers

Organization Drivers

Leadership Drivers

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Performance

Assessment (Fidelity)

Coaching

Training

Selection

Systems

Intervention

Facilitative

Administration

Decision Support

Data System

Integrated &

Compensatory

Technical Adaptive

Implementation Drivers Improved Outcomes

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© Fixsen & Blase, 2007 Leadership

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Active Implementation Framework

4. Improvement Processes o Needed for reflection on and revision of

implementation plans

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What Does Language Mean?

MATH SCIENCE

LANGUAGE

ARTS

*• instructional

discourse • expressing and understanding

reasoning

Olsen, 2013 15

Aligned with and to be used in tandem with CCSS for ELA & Literacy – How has your district messaged this integration to principals, teachers and

parents in the implementation of CCSS? Is the integration part of the PD?

Highlight and amplify the critical language, knowledge about language, and skills using language in the CCSS in order for ELs to be simultaneously

successful in school while they are developing language – To what degree have administrators, teachers and parents understood the difference between the development of Language as a fundamental content access skill for ELs and the teaching of reading and writing to all students?

Provide fewer, clearer, higher standards so teachers can focus on what’s most important – Has your district leveraged the advantage of fewer standards in the training offered to teachers and administrators by linking those to the ELD standards?

CA ELD Standards: Design

ELD Standards Overview Page 14 16

Where Are You in the Implementation?

Letting It Happen? Adoption of the CCSS/ELD Standards

• List outcomes

Helping It Happen? Attempts to use/practice the CCSS/ELD

Standards

• List outcomes

ELD Standards, if

implemented as

an integral part of

the CCSS

CCSS alone do not provide a

pathway towards English

proficiency for ELs

• New English Language Development

standards aligned to the CCSS

(adopted November 2012)

• Implementation of CCSS must be

accompanied by full implementation

of the new ELD standards

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Stage-Based Implementation

Assessment

After determining the stage of implementation, the frame you use to

complete the drivers assessment will be as follows:

• For Exploration, you ASK: How are we planning for…?

• For Installation you ASK: How are we installing…?

• For Initial Implementation you ASK: How are we

supporting…?

• For Full Implementation you ASK: How are we

improving and sustaining…?

Educators Have a Dual Obligation

to English Learners

Adapted from WestEd 2013 Summer

Institute Presentation to CTA by

Robert Linquanti

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Interconnected, not separate!

Simultaneous, not sequential!

• Provide meaningful access to

grade-level academic content via

appropriate instruction

• Develop students’ academic English

language proficiency

(Lau v. Nichols; Castañeda v. Pickard; NCLB)

CA ELD Standards: Elements

Grade Level ELD Standards:

Section 1: Goal, Critical Principles, At-a-glance Overview

Section 2: Elaboration on Critical Principles

• Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways

• Part II: Learning About How English Works

• Part III: Using Foundational Literacy Skills

Overview & Proficiency Level Descriptors (PLDs):

Alignment to CCSS for ELA & Literacy

CA’s EL Students

Proficiency Level Descriptors (PLDs)

Structure of the grade level standards

Appendices:

Appendix A: Foundational Literacy Skills

Appendix B: Learning About How English Works

Appendix C: Theory and Research

Appendix D: Context, Development, Validation

Glossary of Key Terms

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Part I

• I.A.3 (Supporting opinions and persuading

others) p.3

• I.B.7 (Evaluating language choices) p.5

• I.C.11 (Justifying/arguing) p.6

Part II

• II.A.1 (Understanding text structure) p.8

• II.B.3 (Using verbs and verb phrases) p.9

• II.C.6 (Connecting ideas) p.10

• Could the ELD Standards proficiency level

descriptors be used for formative assessment

purposes for EL progress in your district? How?

• How do you currently assess your ELs’ progress?

ELD Strands

How do they work?

• Review these ELD

standard strands in

pairs/teams

• What do they

communicate to students and teachers?

• What changes across

proficiency levels?

Grade 6

Example

See Handout

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Take 5 minutes

Select a component of the Active Implementation

Framework and explain its possible implication for your

work:

I selected …

I think an implication for my work that I

will take back to my district is…

The Active Implementation

Framework and the Districts’

CCSS/ELD Standards Roll Out

Resources

California English Language

Development Standards http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/er/eldstandards.asp

eStandards App http://scoecurriculum.net/estandards/support/