It is June 1 and ELL case managers are now planning for supplemental supports for students in the next school year. At this time, the annual spring assessments of students on your caseload should be complete and Annual Instructional Plans (AIPs) for the 2024-2025 school year are progressing. Please refer to the instructions for the spring assessments, which is found below as well as on the SD61 homepage. Please prioritize students in grades 5 and 8 as transition meetings are taking place and having up-to-date information to share would be helpful. Also, their AIPs will transfer to their new middle or secondary school's ELL case manager on June 21 and they will no longer be accessible.
Case managers are responsible for doing the yearly spring assessments and writing new AIPs for the 2024-2025 school year. Oral language assessments and templates for unaided writing samples are in the shared Google drive entitled ELL/ESD Teacher Resources. Once assessments are complete, use the results to determine the development of brand new AIPs with new goals and suggested supports and adaptations. Sections A to E as well as H (uploaded assessments) should be filled in for all AIPs for the 2024-2025 school year by Friday, June 21. In the fall and before September 30, case managers will complete the remaining sections F and G in the AIPs once their support schedules have been established. Please reach out to classroom teachers in your school(s) to inquire whether there are any students who are not currently receiving support this year who they think should be considered for supplemental support next year.
All funding-eligible ELL students for next year require a new AIP for the 2024-2025 school year. Funding eligible means that next year they will have 5 years or less years of support on the 1701. At least one language assessment must be completed (oral, reading or writing) for every student this spring and a new goals set in the 2024-2025 AIP by the end of this school year.
Writing Samples - When an unaided student writing sample is taken as part of the assessment then teacher comments and annotations must be evident on the paper. Please refer closely to the BC ELL Standards when noting strengths and stretches as the AIP goals should be related to what is in your notes on the paper. Unless a student is at the beginning stage, writing topics for middle and secondary school should require the use of persuasion or compare and contrast. Please see the shared Google file for writing prompts.
Please feel free to reach out to Jen Barber at jbarber@sd61.bc.ca for guidance or if you have any questions.
With gratitude,
Jen Barber, District ELL Teacher Support
David Hovis, District Principal
