State Policy Presentation

Hey, everyone.

So my state policy presentation is gonna be on the

state of Colorado, and we're first going to start off

with some background on historical policies.

So, historically, the top five languages spoken in Colorado besides

English have been Spanish, Arabic, Vietnamese, Chinese and Russian.

With this wide variety of languages spoken what can be

done to help PLL students in Colorado schools?

In the early two thousands, Colorado became a member of

W I D E A, which is world class instructional

design and assessment.

Colorado fully adopted W I.

D. A.

In 2000 and 13.

In 2014 Colorado updated the E L P A, which

is the English Language Proficiency Act.

This reenactment provided much needed funding to schools with E

L L programs.

So this funding provided these l l programs with better

resource is such as better textbooks.

Um, access to different types of resource is that they

need the ability to have mawr l l programs within

their schools and just to provide them, um, or equitable

experience. So some of the current practices for E.

L. L's in Colorado is the W I.

D. E.

A, which is the world class instructional design and assessment.

So I'm gonna go into some more detail about what

w i d.

A actually is W I.

D A.

Was adopted by the state of Colorado in 2000 and

13. The goal of W i.

D. A.

Was to design and implement a program that provides L

l students with equitable educational opportunities while holding them to

a high standard.

W i.

D. A.

Has been enacted by a consortium of states across the

country. W i d A.

Aims to create a standard throughout the states for assessing

e l l s.

That holds true state to state.

This is a good measure for E l l students

because this is a way to ensure students throughout the

country are getting the same level of education.

W i D e a.

Evaluate students using a uniformed technique by using the same

criteria to evaluate students.

This provides e l l students the same levels of

support throughout this consortium of states who are a member

of W i d A.

So w I d.

A. Can basically be used as a measure to ensure

that students across the country are getting a similar level

of education.

Because students are all given the same type of placement

test students throughout the country should be given the same

level of support.

So this allows for School District's as well as the

government to ensure that students are getting the same level

of support and it will provide them with adequate funding

for their programs.

So some of the other current practices as of 2000

and 17 there were 105,000 500 students in L programs

in the state of Colorado, and I'm sure the number

is greater.

But this was the most recent number that I could

find the practices enacted for L L students in the

state of Colorado.

Very due to the fact that once students are placed

in l l programs, the L.

E A's are given the freedom to determine practices that

work best for their students.

The state of Colorado currently uses W idea as a

means for providing l l instruction.

W I.

D A.

Provides the state of Colorado with programming to identify and

then later assessed student progress.

E l L students are provided tiered instruction based on

their placement tests.

So what do u e l l classrooms look like

in Colorado?

E l l instruction can take on a variety of

different forms.

Students are given placement test and then placed in different

tiered levels of support.

These levels convey Ari School District to School District, but

due to W.

I. D.

A. This instruction should provide the same educational opportunities throughout

the state of Colorado as well as the consortium of

states that follow W i D E.

A. Ah common form of E l L.

Instruction is when e.

L students who need extra support are placed into a

classroom with other e l L students who are have

a similar level of needs.

In this type of supports system, students air place based

on their needs and are allowed to integrate English gradually.

This differs from the immersion technique where students are required

to speak on Lee English.

This technique is often more effective for E.

L. L's because they're able to speak their native language

when needed or applicable.

School District's in Colorado are required through W i d

A. To provide e l l students with equitable educational

opportunities, and although this is a great standard.

It's not very clear, and it can take many shapes.

So the state of Colorado leaves this up to the

interpretation of the school district or L.

E. A's.

They will then measure it's success later throughout the year

using those assessments.

So I wanted to talk about some of the impacts

of passed and President E.

L L programs on students, so past policies such as

total immersion for E.

L L students had many negative impacts.

Total emergent immersion has forced L.

L students to completely abandon their native language, causing them

to lose parts of their identity.

In the past, students who spoke a different language were

not treated with the same respect as native English speakers.

In the past, many teachers felt it was their duty

to assimilate students by forcing them to speak on Lee

English. This erase part of their identity and made students

feel unwelcome or unwanted in schools.

In recent years, educators have learned the value of a

diverse and welcoming classroom by recognizing differences in students.

Lingle background We foster an environment that allows for student

success as well as celebrating diversity, so we've learned recently

that total immersion is actually not the best technique for

teaching Els.

We've realized that e l L students need to be

able to use their native language to help them understand

English and also to help their classrooms understood.

Classmates understand the value of diversity within their classroom.

So that is all I have on the impact.

And then I just wanted to include a brief work

cited, and that is all Thank you for taking the

time to listen to my presentation and have a good

State Policy Presentation

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