Short Text: No English Language Proficiency Code (ELP Code) has been provided. Choice schools that accept Title I & / or Title III funds are required to collect, assess and report ELP data, and an ELP code should be submitted by these Choice schools.
Long Text: No English Language Proficiency Code (ELP Code) has been provided. Choice schools that accept Title I & / or Title III funds are required to collect, assess and report ELP data, and an ELP code should be submitted by these Choice schools. Choice must provide an ELP Code, which is equal to the number to the left of the decimal (1-6) from the prior year's ACCESS for ELLs Overall Composite Proficiency Level.
NOTE: Private schools participating in the Choice program submit data through WISEdata to meet school accountability reporting requirements. These private schools may also opt into receiving an All Students Report Card in addition to a Choice Students Report Card. If a school opts to do so, the school submits data through WISEdata for both Choice and non-Choice students. The ELP code submitted to WISEdata is determined as follows in the “How to Fix” section:
How to Fix: This warning appears if a student does not have an English Language Proficiency (ELP) code submitted to WISEdata. Choice schools that accept Title I &/or Title III funds are required to collect, assess and report ELP data, and an ELP code should be submitted by these Choice schools.
Consult academic records to locate a prior year ELP score if a student has transferred into your Choice school.
If no recent ACCESS test score is in the student record, verify with WISEdata Validation messages 6777, 6778, or 6779 (depending on the score). These messages indicate that a student is associated with an ELP score.
After verifying that no ELP score exists, leave the ELP code blank and acknowledge the Warning. Visit the WISEclassroom mini-tutorial that shows you how to acknowledge a warning.
If an ELP score exists, enter it in your student information system (SIS). This means you have a student that is in need of EL instructional services.
Follow up or reach out to your local public school district to arrange a consultation meeting with their ESEA Title services staff member. This initial consultation should occur before the LEA has made any final decisions about public school Title funding, and should continue throughout the school year, as per page 5 of the Consultation Toolkit for Private School Equitable Participation.
During this ESEA Title services consultation students already identified as EL will be discussed, including plans to meet their instructional needs.
Following the consultation with the local school district, DPI recommends identifying new or incoming students who are English language learners using the Home Language Survey (Chapter 1 of the EL Policy Handbook). The Choice school should stay in contact with the public LEA to arrange services for any newly identified students not discussed at this Title consultation.
Continue following steps in the EL Policy handbook, through Chapter 3: Making on EL Determination (the flowchart below is from page 11 of Chapter 3 in the EL Policy Handbook) until such time as the student is determined to obtain an EL score of either:
7 - never EL because they display proficiency in English, OR
1-5 based on results from the Home Language Survey, a WIDA Screener, and other multiple indicator protocols, such as a portfolio and/or classroom observations.
Enter this ELP score into your SIS to clear the warning.
If your Choice school does not administer the ACCESS for ELLs test and would like to learn more, please read the EL Students in Private Schools handbook.
Example: Teacher Nia sees a warning 7108 that Anthony, a new 2nd grade student at her Choice school, does not have an ELP code submitted to WISEdata. Anthony’s previous school was in the local public school district. Nia looks through Anthony’s student records to see if he has an ACCESS test score from the previous school year. Nia does not find an ACCESS test score on WISEdata portal.
NOTE: If Teacher Nia *did* find an ACCESS score from Anthony’s previous school year, she would refer to the information on the English Language Proficiency data element page to determine the correct ELP score to enter into her school’s SIS.
To ensure that Anthony’s language needs are being met, Nia makes sure that the Home Language Survey is included in the new enrollment paperwork for Anthony’s family. Anthony returns the survey, which indicates that he speaks another primary language (besides English) in his home. Nia’s Choice school then administers the WIDA Screener. (NOTE: If Anthony was a kindergarten student, Nia would have used the Kindergarten WIDA Screener, called the K W-APT.)
Once Anthony’s WIDA Screener results are found, her Nia’s Choice school team uses multiple indicator protocols (a classroom observation and a language artifact portfolio) to determine Anthony has an ELP score of 2.1. This translates into an EP score of 2 will be entered into Teacher Nia’s SIS.
The entry of this ELP score will clear the warning.
Teacher Nia’s Choice school team will continue to follow protocols provided in the EL Policy Handbook, including the administration of an ACCESS test in the spring to Anthony, and inputting this ACCESS test score into the SIS
Technical Details:
Business Rule Logic: If Agency type is Choice school and limited English Proficiency Descriptor is NULL on SEOA
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09/26/2024