Transcript Center for Language Assessment - Bethlehem Area School District

Doris Correll, M.Ed.
Coordinator of English
Acquisition Program
Peggy Lee, M.Ed
ESOL Instructional Coach
Patricia Viera, M.Ed.
ESOL District Evaluator
Linda Lopez, BA
Secretary/Notary
Mariangeli Vazquez
Secretary
At registration, every student who enters the
Bethlehem Area School District is given a home
language survey to determine student’s home
language. If a language other than English is
noted, then the student is sent to CLA and registers
at the Center for Language Assessment (CLA).
CLA Duties & Responsibilities
•Register students in the BASD system.
•Determine English proficiency level
•Secure and review prior school records
•Conduct parent interviews
•Recommend appropriate placement
•Monitor students’ progress and program
•Refer families to local agencies
•Receive testing referrals for students having
difficulties in learning English.
ESOL PROGRAM
• At CLA, the student is assessed using multiple measures to
determine language proficiency
and ability level in native language.
• If the student is identified as an English Language Learner,
ESOL services are provided.
• Elementary school age students all remain
in their home schools.
• At the Middle school;
Beginner level students attend Broughal
Intermediate and Advanced students attend
Broughal, Northeast, or East Hills.
• All eligible high school students attend Liberty High School.
• Initial registration by appointment includes student data, family
information, and prior schooling
• Affidavits are completed and forwarded to Child Accounting Office
• Release of Record forms are signed
• Bus passes are given to the family if the Transportation Grid so
indicates
• Orientation to the BASD is provided via video, Standards
information, Code of Conduct
• The CLA evaluation results include: oral proficiency scores, reading and
comprehension levels, math score, writing sample, and additional
comments. Results are places in a red folder.
• Students are placed into beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels based
on oral proficiency, reading and writing skills.
Exit is determined by successful performance in school and other multiple
assessment measures.
• Teachers of English acquisition report twice a year on each student’s
stages of oral language, reading and writing.
• Staff at each school decides when the student is ready to move up to the
Intermediate, Advanced, or to Exit from the English Acquisition Program.
• The CLA Office monitors and records student progress in the CLA
database that is maintained internally.
Reading Recovery®
First grade students who struggle to learn to read in
English may be served by the Reading Recovery program, in
which a specially trained teacher works one on one with each
student for 30 minutes daily for a period of 20 weeks in first
grade.
Most of these Reading Recovery students go on to read at
levels average or better by the end of first grade. Most are
successful without further reading support services.
Intensive Summer programs
Students at the beginning level of English language
learning may be eligible for a four-week summer
program designed to improve oral language, reading
and writing.
An MI Integrated Approach is utilized focused around a
theme.
School 2 Work Program
in collaboration with St. Luke’s Hospital:
• English Acquisition students at Liberty High
school may apply for a school-to-work program
in which they learn English and science
concepts through a health care curriculum and
spend two afternoons each week working with
mentors at St. Luke’s Hospital.
CLA Newsletter to Parents
• The CLA newsletter is published in English
and Spanish with program updates, student
work, names and schools of all teachers in
the English Acquisition program and news
of school events.
•CLA Newsletter is published for parents
twice a year