R10 English Learner Support News

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What an unusual time we are living in! TEA has been doing a wonderful job in providing guidance on compliance and instructional processes. However, this guidance is found across several different documents. We have taken this information and created a quick reference guide that compiles specific EL and LPAC guidance into one location. The document is organized alphabetically by topic with direct links to the documents where specific information can be found. The date each reference document was released or updated is also listed. As information is being released every day, this document will be updated daily to ensure it reflects the most current TEA guidance. Please click on the image to access Spring 2020 EL/LPAC Quick Reference Guide.

As you aware, our Region 10 End-of-Year LPAC face-to-face sessions have been cancelled. We will be offering this session virtually, instead. We are providing three options (the same session, repeated):

Monday, April 20, 2020 from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM,

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, and

Wednesday, April 22, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

Zoom registration links have been emailed to the LEA's Compliance contacts.

PLEASE NOTE:

• This is a trainer-of-trainers session designed to support the individual, or individuals, responsible for training their district/charter personnel. We would like to limit the attendance so that we will have ample time to answer questions and provide any necessary clarification.
• These sessions are by invitation only. Please do not share out the links.

As of today, we are planning to move forward with hosting the Annual Symposium. Registration is now open and early registration has been extended. Register with the peace of mind that if we have to cancel due to COVID-19, your registration fee will be reimbursed.

We are looking for Sponsors and Exhibitors for our event.

More information can be found here:

http://bit.ly/R10PowerofUnitySponsors

Registration for the annual Title III Symposium is open. Title III Has not made a decision to cancel/postpone at this time. You may visit the following link for registration, hotel and presentation proposal information.

http://www.title3.esc2.net/

Check out the redesigned English learner web portal!

The portal NOW introduces resources for parents and families of English learners and a NEW strand focusing on building community partnerships. This innovated portal provides a one stop shop approach for all stakeholders to access state and federal guidance and web-based resources to boost student outcomes. The site now offers a translation feature to toggle between the top languages in Texas.

Visit www.elltx.org and see how you can implement these great resources to increase the impact on the academic success of the State’s English learners.

Source: TEA

We will come back stronger next year! We know students were proud and excited to participate and we have decided to honor the hard work and dedication of this year's winners by allowing them to participate in next year's Spanish Spelling Bee in addition to next year's winners. Please contact your students and let them know the opportunity has not been taken away from there, it has just been delayed. A new date will be announced in the next Directors/Coordinators Quarterly Meeting

We are still collecting information regarding Bilingual Programming at each LEA in Region 10. If you haven't already, could you please complete the survey below to let us know what kind of bilingual program your district has in place?

https://forms.gle/WEyKNY1c96duCntv9

If you would like to schedule Summer and Fall PD sessions, please complete the following form. We will get back with you to schedule.

http://bit.ly/R10PDRequestForm

Our Bilingual and ESL consultants are all available to assist your teachers and/or instructional coaches in designing virtual instruction.

Please pass this R10 request form to your teachers who might like some help designing digital/analog pick-up resources. Once they complete the form, someone from our team will reach out to help.

These sessions are designed for District/Charter School leaders to have a venue to get answers to their burning questions as they lead their departments through these uncertain times.

These sessions are designed for Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Campus and District Leaders.

Did you know that we offer online courses for members of our Coop?

Learning on demand at your own time.

Our digital learning team is working hard and more courses will be added soon.

Visit

www.myprofessionallearning.com

I am excited to share that we have partnered with Penny Rich Publications to provide access to the Bilingual Teacher Share database to every Bilingual Teacher in Region 10. We know our bilingual teachers struggle finding quality Spanish resources and we want to help them by providing access to thousands of curated SLAR resources organized by grade level and TEKS. Region 10 has purchased a membership that will provide them access from now until the end of this school year. Please help us by forwarding this email to all your bilingual teachers to ensure they know they have access to this great resource to help them while planning their remote learning lessons.

In order to get the login information, they must complete the following steps:

1. Teachers must fill out this form to request access: https://bit.ly/R10BilingualTeacherShare

2. Once form is completed, they will receive an email with login/password information

Access has been purchased for Region 10 districts and members of the Title III Coop only. We kindly ask that you do not share the password. You can find out more about the Bilingual Teacher Share here: https://www.pennyrichpublications.com/curriculum-solutions

Region 10 has created an At-Home Instructional Support site that includes Region 10 curated PK-12 content-area resources including Spanish and ESL/Language Acquisition strategies to support your English Learners through remote learning. This site will continue to be updated daily. You may access the site at this link: bit.ly/R10remote

The resources on this list have been organized by topic ranging from supporting English Learners with multiple needs, Parent crisis support, Tech tools, etc.

You can access this resource here

There has never been a better time to work on increasing your Professional Learning Network (PLN). Follow any of these EL experts for great advice on supporting our English Learners.

Check out this calendar with chats with moderators who are experts in the EL field.

This website provides an extensive list of education companies offering free subscriptions due to school closings. The list is updated daily.

www.amazingeducationalresouces.com

Engage2learn provides a parent toolkit available also in Spanish. It includes great resources to help parents navigate learning at home.

The Parent Toolkit

This Smore was created by Viana Armstrong, BE/ESL Coordinator at Ferris ISD. She has curated a list of resources for teachers and parents of English Learners

https://www.smore.com/8hf9m

As many of you have noticed, our team has a new name! We are now the English Learner Support Services Team instead of BE/ESL Team to be more inclusive and in line with TEA's English Learner Support Division. We are very excited about it and have been using our new name in most correspondence. We still have the same Twitter account, but you might have noticed our Twitter handle and Hashtag were updated. Even though our name has changed, our services are still the same. We are here to support and serve you!

Email: emma.selig@region10.org
Website: https://www.region10.org/programs/bilingual-esl/overview/
Location: 400 East Spring Valley Road, Richardson, TX, USA
Phone: 972-348-1340
Twitter: @SeligEmma

@R10ELSupport

#R10ELSupport