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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 11-10-1998 - Attachment #12CHAPEL HILL - CARRBORO CITY SCHOOLS Lincoln Center, Merritt Mill Road Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516 Telephone: 919 - 967 -8211 Fax: 919 - 933 -4560 A+lOne ZZ Neil Pedersen, Superintendent Ann Y. Hart, Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Services Chester F. Preyar, Assistant Superintendent for Support Services To: Neil Pedersen Superinte dent J From: Ann Hart 11 .,Alt Assistant uperintendent for Instructional Services Re: Proposal for Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools Task Force on Educational Services for Limited English Proficient Students Date: August 11, 1998 Accompanying this memo is the Proposai for Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools Task Force on Educational Services for Limited English Proficient Students. This information is submitted for your review and presentation to the Board of Education at the meeting on August 20, 1998. The Chapel Hill- Carrboro City School system has provided services for its Limited English Proficient (LEP) student population for more than twenty years. Over the past ten years, this population of students has increased tremendously in the school district and across North Carolina. With the growing educational needs of the system's LEP student population, the increasing number of languages represented (62 plus), the challenges that educators face in serving this segment of the student population, and the needs of LEP students, the district administration, with School Board support, is submitting a proposal for the establishment of a Task Force on Educational Services for Limited English Proficient Students. This task force will have the responsibility of closely examining the present services offered by the school system for LEP students, considering instructional delivery models and identifying resources. The committee also will receive feedback from the community and educators on the educational needs of LEP students, look at translation needs, review professional development programs and training opportunities for mainstream teachers and administrators, and present its findings and recommendations to members of the Board of Education for consideration and implementation. ff The twenty -five member task force, consisting of representatives from the community, school district ESL, mainstream teachers, administrators, students, School Governance Committees, parents of LEP students, higher education, School Board members, local and state agencies and town government, will meet from August to December. In its deliberation and fact finding, task force members will rely on information and resources from local, state, and national English As A Second Language and Bilingual Education programs and organizations. Josephine Harris, Director of Special Programs, will present the proposal at the Board meeting on August 20 and respond to questions. Resolution: Be it, therefore, resolved that the Board of Education approves the Proposal for Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools Task Force on Educational Services for Limited English Proficient Students AYEVpsw MI Proposal for The Chapel Hill- Carrboro City Schools Task Force on Educational Services for Limited English Proficient (LEP) Students Submitted by Josephine L. Harris Director of Special Programs Instructional Services Division Lincoln Center Chapel Hill- Carrboro City Schools August 11, 1998 0 M Rationale for Establishing The Task Force on Educational Services for Limited English Proficient (LEP) Students Over the past ten years or more, the Limited English Proficient (LEP) student population has increased tremendously in the Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools and across North Carolina. LEP students are students who exhibit difficulty speaking, reading, writing or understanding the English language. LEP students moving into the schools experience a cultural shock as they are faced with a new and unreadable language, new faces, different value systems, different historical heritage, and a strange environment. Many experience frustrations as they attempt to adjust to their new environment and learn how to survive within the school culture. The Chapel Hill - Carrboro City School System began serving LEP students district -wide in 1987 with one teacher working with 67 students. Prior to this district -wide effort to meet the needs of LEP students, the school system contracted with Dialogo, an educational consulting service for non - English speaking students, to serve high school LEP students only. Durham Technical Community College, through a three -year grant, also provided additional class periods of English as a Second Language (ESL) services at the high school level. Presently, there are six and a half ESL teachers serving more about 320 LEP students and meeting the growing and diverse needs of the system's LEP student population. While learners of English in the school system create unique opportunities for educators and students to learn about different cultures and languages, the diverse population also challenges educators to develop programs that afford opportunities for LEP students to succeed in school and reach their goals.. The challenges that the school system faces in meeting the diverse needs of the fast growing LEP student population are multi - faceted, from staffing needs and instructional delivery models to meeting the interpretation and translation needs of LEP students and their families. Additionally, with an increasing number of LEP students beginning to arrive during the past two years with great skill deficiencies in their native language, the challenge of finding available resources to provide adequate support for students' language needs as well as skill development in their native language is critical Finally, as the school system, along with the other 118 school systems across the state, wait to see what state legislators will do this year to provide categorical funding for ESL services, it is essential for the school system to review current ESL practices, delivery models, staffing needs, and other related areas and make recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of services provided this segment of the system's student population. -2- With the growing educational needs of the system's LEP population, the increasing number of languages represented (62 plus), the challenges that educators face in serving this segment of the student population, and the need to address the effectiveness of the school system in meeting the educational needs of LEP students, members of the Chapel Hill - Carrboro City School Board of Education directed the Superintendent to develop a proposal which would establish a Task Force on Educational Services for Limited English Proficient Students. Goals and Objectives of Task Force The goals and objectives of the Task Force on the Educational Services for Limited English Proficient Students include the following: (1) To look at. methods of appropriately identifying LEP students, assessing their language proficiency, and diagnosing their instructional needs. u_ (2) To identify resources to assist administrators in becoming more knowledgeable of IegaVeducational issues and to implement practices and procedures to assure more culturally and educationally responsive programs for LEP students. (3) To identify strategies to coordinate and provide equal access to all school system programs and services for LEP students. (4) To establish consistency in the criteria for entry/exit of LEP students into the English as a Second Language (ESL) Program. (5) To develop a demographic profile of the school system's Limited English Proficient Population. (6) To develop recommendations of instructional delivery models and strategies for serving multi - language LEP populations. (7) To collect feedback from the community and educators on: a. the educational needs of Limited English Proficient students as perceived by parents and teachers (ESL and mainstream teachers) b. the perception of LEP families of the Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools; and C. educational strategies that the community believes might be successful with students from different countries and cultures. R -3- (8) To identify community resources upon which the school system can draw to address the needs of Limited English Proficient students. (9) To identify resources and services for translating documents in the most common languages in the school system. (10) To identify a pool of volunteers or other resources to use as translators for LEP students and their families as needed. (11) To identify professional development programs and training activities for mainstream teachers to adapt content area instruction for the LEP learners in their classrooms. (12) To provide techniques for educators to become more familiar with alternative instructional assessment strategies for students of other language and cultural backgrounds. (13) To identify ways of actively involving parents of LEP students in their child's educational process. (14) To develop recommendations for a more effective approach to meeting the educational needs of LEP students and their families. (15) To present findings and recommendations to the Board of Education by January 1999. (16) Upon approval of recommendations and plans of action, begin implementing strategies. Task Force Timeline August 20, 1998 Presentation of Proposal for Task Force on Educational Services for Limited English Proficient (LEP) Students to Members of the Board of Education August 31, 1998 Orientation Meeting of Task Force on Educational Services for Limited English Proficient (LEP) Students -7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. September 10, 1998 Organizational Meeting of Task Force on Educational Services for Limited English Proficient (LEP) Students --6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. N -4- September 24, 1998 Task Force Sub- Committee Meetings 7:00 p.m. October 15, 1998 Task Force Sub - Committee Meetings 7:00 p.m. October 29, 1998 Entire Task Force Meeting to Hear Sub - Committee Reports --7:00 p.m. November 9, 1998 Task Force Sub - Committee Meetings 7:00 p.m. November 23, 1998 Entire Task Force Meeting to Hear Sub - Committee Reports --7:00 p.m. December 3, 1998 Task Force Sub - Committee Meetings 7:00 p.m. December 12, 1998 Entire Task Force Meeting to Hear Final Reports of Sub- Committees and Begin Identifying Major Recommendations --8:30 a.m. - 12:00 Noon December 17, 1998 Entire Task Force Meeting to Finalize Recommendations and Findings to School Board 7:00 p.m. January 14, 1999 Presentations of findings, recommendations, and plan of action to Board of Education --7:00 p.m. Board Meeting at Culbreth Middle School January 15, 1999 Begin implementing strategies Membership of Task Force on Educational Services for Limited English Proficient (LEP) Students Task Force Co- Chairpersons • Abby Tom ESL Tutor of Local ESL students ESL Teacher at Durham Technical Community College Former Board Member of Carolina TESOL 933 -8972 • Josephine Harris ESL Supervisor Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools ff .5- Board of Education Member • School Board Representative (1) Representatives From International Community • Deily Garcia, Hispanic/Latino Community Representative (910) 376 -8084, Lincoln Center Extension 310 • Maria Palmer, Hispanic /Latino Community Representative • Representatives from Asian Countries • Representative from Other European Countries • Representative from Africa & Other Surrounding Countries LEP Student Representatives • One High School LEP (English- Proficient) Student Representatives from Local and State Agencies and Institutions • George Ann McKay Coordinator of Orange County ESL Services County Offices, Hillsborough, NC (Services funded by the Orange County Government System. Housed in the County Office Building --not a part of Orange County Schools) • Dr. Audrey Henning - Boyton UNC Professor -- School of Education Co- Coordinator of ESL Licensure Program Second Language Professor (919) 962 -3035 • Marty Pryor -Cook Director of Orange County Department of Social Services Hillsborough, NC -- 732 -8181 • Director of Orange County Health Department Hillsborough, NC ESL Teachers • Two Representatives Principals • Randy Marshall Carrboro Elementary • Carlotta Armstrong Chapel Hill High Classroom Teachers (3) • Elementary, middle, and high school representatives SGC Representatives • Glenwood Elementary • Culbreth Middle Other School Staff • Ann Hart Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Services -- Lincoln Center • Sherron Leplin Coordinator of Exceptional Education and Student Services - Lincoln Center • Pam Bailey Volunteer Partners Director -- Lincoln Center Town Government Representatives • Representative from Town of Carrboro * Representative from Town of Chapel Hill Ex-Off iclo • Neil Pedersen Superintendent Resources For Task Force 1. Local ESL Agencies and Institutions Orange County ESL Program Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools' ESL Program Chapel Hill, NC Orange County Schools' ESL Program Hillsborough, NC 27278 UNC- Chapel Hill ESL Program School of Education The Center for International Studies UNC- Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC UW -7- I1. State Resources ESL Licensure Program Meredith College Dr. Ellen Collie Graden, Coordinator 3800 Hillsborough Street Raleigh, NC 27607 -5298 (919) 829 -7455 Carolina Teachers of English Speakers of Other Languages Darrell Eudy English Language Training Institute UNC- Charlotte 4308 Pioneer Court Charlotte, NC 28227 Latin American Resource Center Aura Mass Executive Director Raleigh, NC Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County Pittsboro, NC Hispanic Task Force of Lee County Sanford, NC Hispanic League of the Piedmont Triad Greensboro, NC Bilingual Communications, Inc. Cary, NC Office of Minority Health Raleigh, NC Office of Rural Health and Research Development Raleigh, NC North Carolina Foreign Language Center 300 Maiden Lane Fayetteville, NC 28301 910 -483 -5022 1w U North Carolina Department of Public Instruction 301 North Wilmington Street Raleigh, NC 27601 -2825 Contacts: Jane Cowan 919 - 715 -1796 Fran Hoch 919 - 715 -1797 Bernadette Morris 919 - 715 -1798 Jerry Toussaint 919- 715 -1808 Translation Services Carolina Association of Translators and Interpreters P. O. Box 482 Cary, NC 27512 -0482 919- 851 -1901 I11. National Resource Organizations Bilingual Education Multi - functional Resource Center- University of Oklahoma 555 Constitution Street, Suite 208 Norman, Oklahoma 73037 -0005 800- 522 -0772, Ext. 1731, 405 - 325 -1731 Globall-ink: The Translation Company 9302 Lee Highway Fairfax, VA 22031 800 - 255 -5660 National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education(NCBE) 1118 22nd Street, NW Washington, DC 20037 800 - 321 -NCBE, 202 -467 -0876 National Clearinghouse on Literacy Education (NCLE) The Center for Applied Linguistics National Clearinghouse on Literacy Education 1118 22nd Street, NW Washington, DC 20037 202 -429 -9292 Evaluation Assistance Center -East (EAC) The George Washington University 1730 North Lynn Street, #401 Arlington, VA 22209 Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) 1600 Cameron Street, Suite 300 Alexandria, VA 22314 -2751 703 - 528 -7864 W 51 National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) Union Center Plaza 810 First Street, N.E. , Third Floor Washington, DC 20002 -4250 202 - 898 -1829 TransACT Education, Inc. 8423 Mukilteo Speedway, Suite 203 Mukilteo, WA 98275 (206) 348 -5000 x