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Teach Out of the Box
ORGANIZATIONS PROMOTING POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR ELLS IN NEW YORK STATE AND NEW YORK CITY
NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF
BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND WORLD LANGUAGE EDUCATION
New York State Education Department Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages
http://www.nysed.gov/bilingual-ed
The mission of the Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages (OBEWL) is to ensure that all New York State students, including English Language Learners/Multilingual Learners (ELLs/MLLs), attain the highest level of academic success and language proficiency. OBEWL’S goal is to provide guidance, technical assistance, and support to NY State Districts, Charter Schools, Non-public Schools, and other organizations (Universities, State Educational Organizations) in the development of programs for English Language Learners/Multilingual Learners and World Language students. OBEWL serves over 700 Local Education Agencies and over 300,000 ELLs/MLLs from over 200 language backgrounds.
Resources:
New York State's ESSA Plan for Growth in English Language Proficiency (ELP) Webinar http://www.nysed.gov/ bilingual-ed/new-york-states-essa-plan-growth-english-language-proficiency-elp-webinar
Roadmap to College for English Language Learners/Multilingual Learners http://www.nysed.gov/bilingual- ed/roadmap-college
NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
OFFICE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
New York City Department of Education Office of English Language Learners
https://www.schools.nyc.gov/multilingual-learners/process/english-language-learners
The Office of English Language Learners (OELL) provides support at the school level in all of the following ways:
• direct support to site-based staff via modeling lessons with appropriate ESL/ENL methodologies and strategies;
• demonstrating how to best deploy paraprofessionals so as to enable students to demonstrate independence in
the differentiated learning tasks prepared by the teacher;
• analysis of effective lesson planning and how to determine the linguistic aim as aligned to the lesson being taught; • use of assessment tools, appropriate to the task created for the lesson, in order to obtain data to track each
student’s progress;
• providing teachers with sample rubrics, lesson plans, materials, including adapted books, and activities/tasks
created by the OELL as instructional supports;
• ELL Monitoring and Support visits for compliance and instruction to Central-selected schools
Resources:
Tests for English Language Learners https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/learning/testing/tests-for- english-language-learners
Bill of Rights for Parents of English Language Learners https://www.schools.nyc.gov/multilingual- learners/process/bill-of-rights-for-parents-of-english-language-learners
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