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ELAC/DELAC

Hugo Orozco, San Marcos Unified Norma Gómez-Michel, San Diego County Office of Education

“...Because inequities at all levels of education still exist, educational equity is the civil rights-issue of our generation.”

Source: ELA/ELD Framework Chapter 9

Welcome

• Help yourself to some sustenance. Food and drinks

were paid for by private funds.

• Location of restrooms
• Please be in the moment.
• We assume positive intent.
• Parking Lot- ideas inspired by others, suggestions or

questions.

What will you know?

• Recognize the purpose of ELAC
• Master ELAC responsibilities and familiarize with

ELAC requirements

• Add to your repertoire ideas on family engagement
• Access resources to assist in having effective ELAC

meetings

What will you be able to do?

Success Criteria:

• I can explain to our educational community the

purposes of ELAC.

• I can facilitate or find someone at my site to facilitate

all of the ELAC responsibilities.

• I can comply with all of the ELAC requirements.
• I can implement two or more new strategies to

increase participation in ELAC meetings.

Parent Voices

Rodrigo Huertero- Richland ELAC President Margarita Sotelo- DELAC Vice President (Alvin Dunn) Letty Robles DELAC President and School Board Candidate Guzman Acevedo- DELAC Parliamentarian (Mission Hills) Olga Hernandez- Former DELAC representative (SMMS)

Video

Touch & Talk Review (Eric Jensen)

Consider the following question:

• What was the best part of your day today?
• When the music begins, please touch five different

tables and wait for directions.

• Find a partner you haven’t worked with yet and

introduce yourself.

• Share the best part of your day with your partner

Touch & Talk Review (Eric Jensen)

One more round! Consider the following question:

• What is the purpose and requirements of ELAC?
• When the music begins, please touch five different

tables and wait for directions.

• Find a partner
• Share with your partner the purpose and

requirements of ELAC

English Learner Advisory Council (ELAC)

Purpose

Why is ELAC so important?

• Mandated by state and federal requirements
• Provides opportunities for EL parents to be in leadership roles
• Provides school personnel with insight about language and

cultural differences

• Vehicle to create partnerships with EL families to increase the

achievement of EL

English Learner Advisory Committee (ELAC) Responsibilities

When does an ELAC committee need to be established?

When there are 21 or more English learners at a school, there shall be a functional ELAC.

EC 62002.5 under legal review

ELAC Responsibilities

Advise the principal and staff on:

• the program for ELs [e.g., Alternative

Bilingual, Structured English Immersion (SEI)and English Language Mainstream (ELM)]

ELAC Responsibilities

Advise the school site council on:

• the development of the Single Plan for

Student Achievement and/or

• Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP)

EC 52176[c], 64001[a]

The plan includes….

ELAC Responsibilities

Assist in the development of the school’s:

• needs assessment of each school site
• efforts to make parents aware of the

importance of regular school attendance

CCR 11308[c][2]; EC 521769c)

Whiteboards Review What is the purpose of ELAC? Name ELAC responsibilities. In what documents can we find services and goals for ELs?

What will you be able to do?

Success Criteria: ❏ I can explain to our educational community the purposes of ELAC. ❏ I can facilitate or find someone at my site to facilitate all of the ELAC responsibilities.

Requirements

The ELAC Committee

• Parents of ELs comprise at least the same

percentage of ELAC membership as ELs constitute of the school’s total student population.

• The parents or guardians of EL students choose
• ther parents as members of the committee.

EC 62002.5 under legal review

Criterios esenciales del ELAC

• Elections provide all parents of EL students the
• pportunity to vote.
• The committee elects at least one representative
• f ELAC to DELAC.
• *Receives continuous training to help parents

carry out their duties.

*Parents are equal partners

The ELAC Committee

Criterios esenciales del ELAC The district shall provide:

• appropriate professional development and

materials to assist each member to carry out his/her legally required advisory responsibilities.

• professional development planned in full

consultation with committee members.

Professional Development

ELAC Requirements CA ED Code/Section 35147 SB 355 Greene (Greene act)

• Meetings must be open to the public and

allow for public input.

• Meeting notice and agenda must be

posted at least 72 hours before the meeting

• Notice/agenda must be posted at school

site and or other appropriate place accessible to the public

ELAC Requirements CA ED Code/Section 35147 SB 355 Greene (Greene act)

• Notice/agenda must include date, time,

and location of meeting and the items to be discussed or acted upon.

• Action cannot be taken on items not

posted on agenda, UNLESS an unanimous vote finds a need for immediate action.

ELAC Requirements

• Please save the following:
• sign in sheets
• agendas
• minutes

Family Engagement

Criterios esenciales del ELAC

• What methods do you employ to publicize

ELAC meetings? Please share with your group and take notes of any ideas that you would like to implement.

Family Engagement

Criterios esenciales del ELAC

• *According to last school year’s EL survey,

parents indicated that they prefer communication through recorded phone messages 71%, flyers 68%, text 61% and e-mail 48%. * Some parents are informed by word of mouth from other parents and this question was not asked.

Family Engagement

Criterios esenciales del ELAC

• Blackboard Connect will send recorded phone

messages, text and email. DELAC parents are sent the phone message a week before, Sunday evening 7:30pm and the night before.

• Promoters- Recruit parents to take the lead in

promoting ELAC meetings. ○ they can copy flyers, distribute flyers and make personal calls

Family Engagement

Criterios esenciales del ELAC

• Promoters- Recruit parents to take the lead in

promoting ELAC meetings.

• Nancy Lucio at 2436 or nancy.lucio@smusd.org

will email you a list of all EL at your site.

• Involve parents in planning events
• Survey parents for the most convenient times.
• Develop a yearly calendar of meetings

Family Engagement

Criterios esenciales del ELAC

• Think:

○ What ELAC requirements are we consistently doing and what do we need to begin doing? ○ What effective family engagement techniques are we utilizing and what ideas should we seriously consider?

Think Discuss Report

Criterios esenciales del ELAC

• Discuss with someone at your table:

○ What ELAC requirements are we consistently doing and what do we need to begin doing? ○ What effective family engagement techniques are we utilizing and what ideas should we seriously consider?

• Be prepared to share out with the group

Think Discuss Report

What will you be able to do?

Success Criteria: ❏ I can comply with all of the ELAC requirements. ❏ I can implement two or more new strategies to increase participation in ELAC meetings.

Criterios esenciales del ELAC

• Google Shared Folder

Resources

Final Thought

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”