It is June and case managers are now planning supplemental supports for students in the next school year and building AIPs. At this time, the annual spring assessments of students on your caseload should be well on their way or finished and the Annual Instructional Plans (AIPs) for the 2025--2026 school year have been started. Please refer to the instructions using the link with the same title in the ELL AIP app on the district website. A reminder to prioritize students in grades 5 and 8 as transition meetings are taking place and these students' AIPs will transfer to their feeder middle or secondary school's ELL case manager near the end of June.
Case managers are responsible for doing the yearly spring assessments and writing new AIPs for the 2025-2026 school year. District-created oral language assessments and templates/ prompts for unaided writing samples for primary, intermediate and secondary 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 2025-2026 school year by Friday, June 21 at 2 PM. 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 MLL/ELL students who require continued supplemental language support for next year require a new AIP for the 2025-2026 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 2025-2026 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.
As a reminder, please read carefully the ESD Guidelines and the 5 R's of Indigenous Pedagogy in the links below or in the AIP app instructions link. When working to identify any student who may benefit from supplemental language support, there first should be an identified need for support. If in doubt, reach out to Jennifer Barber with questions at jbarber@sd61.bc.ca or call (250) 886-6207.
With gratitude,
Jennifer Barber, District MLL/ELL Support Teacher
David Hovis, District Principal
