ACTION 3.1
Focus on holistic and asset centered data analysis
We used to think...
Acquiring performance measures in English - often captured in a singular literacy assessment - is sufficient to measure student achievement.
Now we know...
Teachers use concrete, actionable, and relevant data from a wide array of assessments (diagnostics, screeners, formative, student interviews and observations etc.), and assessments analyze the intersection of the students' languages, including the strategic use of assessments in each language.
Best Practice Strategies
To cultivate a supportive multi-language learning environment:
Teachers
Leverage data to identify strengths, set goals, determine trends, and prioritize and plan supports.
Use literacy data review protocols to triangulate literacy data with ML and English language proficiency data, including students EL typology.
Collect literacy data to gain a complete view of student performance for all aspects of language and literacy (reading, writing, listening, and speaking).
Develop assessments in both languages whenever possible, and include: Universal Screeners, Diagnostic Assessments, Frequent Progress Monitoring, In-class formative assessment from curriculum and anecdotal as makes sense.
Resources
English & Spanish Phonemic Awareness & Progress Monitoring Assessments
Heggerty/Literacy Resources, LLC
This resource contains diagnostic assessments for phonemic awareness, available in both English and Spanish so that teacher can assess and progress monitor and/or compare a student's ability in both languages.
Assessment Strategies for English-Language Learners (Opinion)
Larry Ferlazzo/Education Week
This resource provides strategies educators can use to effectively assess MLLs.
Beginning of the year Data Analysis
Sandra Prades-Bertran, Design Group
This resource helps teachers analyze their phonics data, and is used by teachers to adjust instruction based on students' performance. In Dual Language sites, the goal is to compare and contrast data while focusing on transferability.
MTSS for ELs
United States Department of Education
The MTSS for ELs: Literacy Implementation Rubric is intended to be used by individuals or teams who are responsible for monitoring school-level fidelity of a multitiered system of supports (MTSS) for English learners, including MTSS, bilingual, literacy, and English language development specialists or coaches; school principals; and teacher leaders.
The rubric is aligned with the essential components of MTSS for literacy and the infrastructure that is necessary for successful implementation. It is accompanied by a worksheet and action planning document with guiding questions. The worksheet can be used to record ratings and notes for each section, and the action planning document can be used to summarize strengths, areas of need, and goals, and to track progress.
Linguistically Responsive Assessment Policy
Instruction Partners
A sample assessment policy that provides guidelines for assessing foundational skills in English in a way that is responsive to all students and an assessment protocol that can be used to help ensure that multilingual learners (MLs) are not held back in instruction because of primary language influence.
Best Practice for ELLs: Screening
Reading Rockets/United States Department of Education/WETA Public Broadcasting
This resource provides information about screening English language learners for abilities in phonological processing, letter knowledge, and word and text reading to help identify those who are progressing well and/or who require additional instructional support
Margaret Pacing Guide - Module 2
Michele Morenz
In this resource, a teacher paces out an 8-week block of instruction (she happens to be using the EL Education curriculum). She accounts for the unit assessments and the pacing that must occur within her units in order to differentiate and time her daily lessons.
OLA - Oral Language Analysis
Sobrato Early Academic Language
This resource is helpful for teachers to understand how to assess Oral Language.
Exit Tickets
Cristina Rojas López, Design Group
This resource includes examples of some exit tickets that can be used to check for understanding. They will help teachers identify the content learned, if students got the main idea of the content being taught