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ELL Parent Coffee

Please help yourself to coffee and food. Please put on a name tag.

Objective

• To ensure that families feel welcome, supported, and informed

about their child’s education and school events at Cherry Crest

• To understand the ELL model for Bellevue School District
• To learn how we support ELLs in the school
• To understand how you can support at home

Important People at Cherry Crest Comm(Unity)

School Administration Role:

• Supporting every member of the Cherry Crest Comm(Unity)
• Advocating for students and parents
• School leader
• Student discipline
• Hires and manages teachers
• Policies and procedures
• Parent and community relations

Dusty Steere Cherry Crest Principal Tina Bogucharova Cherry Crest Assistant Principal

Administrators

Office Staff

Beth Orr Susie Nakamura Secretary Office Manager You can ask Susie and Beth if you have ANY questions about the school!

PTSA

What is the Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA)?

• Raises money to support the school
• Helps families communicate with the school
• Organizes special events

Get Involved!

• Attend a meeting
• Become a member
• Volunteer

Melissa Young Gina Pollock Davis

ELL Teacher

Anjali Sengupta ELL Facilitator ELD Instructor

We started as ELLs too

WELPA

Washington English Language Proficiency Assessment

Natural Progression of Language Development

From the work of Ed De Avila Ph.D.

Time L 2 Ability

WELPA 1 WELPA 2 WELPA 3 WELPA 4

Levels for WELPA

ELL Facilitator ELD Instructor

Provides support for Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced ELLs by supporting the classroom teacher through:

• Joint planning
• Curriculum mapping and

alignment

• Co-developing instructional

materials

• Collaborative assessment of

student work

• Co-teaching
• Provides Beginning ELLs with

English Language Development Instruction.

• Provides Intermediate and

Advanced ELL students with interventions with a language goal

• n an as-needed basis.

Advocating for students and parents

How we support students at school

EAL Continuum

How can you support your child at home?

• Ask questions
• Check folder/emails/ notes
• READ in your home language with your child OR listen to them

read

• Talk about what they are reading
• Have them explain how they solved a math problem or answered a

question

• Contact teacher or school with any questions
• Volunteer

Resources

• Handouts- please take one (websites, questions to promote

speaking and comprehension)

• Homework- If you need clarification please write to your child’s

teacher and/or email/call me

• Help with conferences- Please let me know if you need help. We

have translators available

Questions & Answers

Thank you for coming!

Please let us know if you need help with any resources!