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Transitioning ELPD Standards & Assessments: The ELPD

Framework

H Gary Cook, Ph.D.University of Wisconsin

June 2013

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The Need

• Many states adapting, developing or adopting new (ELP/D) standards

• States’ ELP/D standards must correspond to college and career ready standards

• ELPD Framework is a tool to support this correspondence

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Purpose of the ELPD Framework

The ELPD Framework communicates to the language practices that all ELLs must acquire in order to successfully engage in the CCSS and NGSS. These practices should then, in turn, influence ELPD Standards.

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ELPD Framework

• What it’s not…– It’s not a new set of standards.– It’s not exhaustive.– It doesn’t identify how to teach ELs.– It’s not curriculum or instructional

material.

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Content DiscourseComplex textExplanation

ArgumentationText structures

Sentence structuresΔVocabulary

practices

Language Arts

Language

The Overlap

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So what is this?

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The Critical Nexus

Assessing language critical to the content

Assessing content with construct

relevant language

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Theory behindELPD Standards

Logic to Standards’sequencing

CCSS/NGSS constructrelevant language

Classroom Connectionsto Standards

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Where we’re going• Developing tools to support ELPD

Framework implementation• Interacting with SBAC and PARCC

assuring assessments support content relevant language in CCSS

• Seeking funding to create a “Teacher’s Guide to the ELPD Framework”

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In sum, The FrameworkHelps educators identify specific

language demands in the CCSS & NGSS

Outlines a procedure for creating and/or evaluating state ELP/D standards

Encourages states to adopt a simultaneous theory of action so that ELP/D standards and the CCSS and NGSS are mutually reinforcing