Resources
Balanced Assessment for Linguistically Diverse Schools
This presentation from the American Association for School Administrators (AASA) conference in February 2010 by Diep Nguyen, and it was titled Leadership for Achievement: Balanced Assessment Systems for Linguistically Diverse Schools. Nguyen argues that improving the achievement of all students, particularly ELLs and students with disabilities, demands as internal assessment and accountability system that yields real evidence of student growth relative to state standards, program goals, and local benchmarks. The session presents the BASIC model (Gottlieb & Nguyen, 2007), a state-of-the-art system that draws on common formative and summative assessments included in a pivotal portfolio. Participants examine how to use data to inform decisionmaking at the classroom, school, program, and district levels. Practical strategies for using data to foster collaboration among mainstream, ESL, bilingual, and special education teachers, and for planning meaningful professional development are highlighted.
Publication: Assessment and Accountability in Language Education Programs: A Guide for Administrators and Teachers
Topic: Professional Development
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Object(s): presentation
Building Authentic Accountability into Dual Language Programs
This presentation from the keynote that Rebecca Freeman Field gave to NYSABE in the spring of 2009 on Building Authentic Accountability into Dual Language Programs. It revolves around Assessment and Accountability in Language Education Programs: A Guide for Administrators and Teachers by Gottlieb and Nguyen, and shows educators how to use evidence of student performance (progress and proficiency) in two languages to drive instruction, guide program and professional development, inform policy, and strengthen advocacy.
Publication: Assessment and Accountability in Language Education Programs: A Guide for Administrators and Teachers
Topic: Professional Development
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Object(s): presentation
Challenging Narrow Notions of Accountability for Bilingual Learners
Freeman Field's presentation from La Cosecha 2012 in Albuquerque, NM.
Session description: This interactive session situates current debates about education and accountability for bilingual learners within a larger sociopolitical context. Freeman Field draws on her own ethnographic research and practical experiences in different dual language contexts over time. She highlights the role of dual language educators as agents for change.
Session objectives:
Participants in this session are encouraged to…
1. Look critically at their (dual language) programs in relation to current assessment and accountability requirements under NCLB'
2. Identify concrete assessment and accountability strengths and challenges, broadly defined, that they face in their programs
3. Identify action steps they can take to improve their assessment and accountability systems, and counter English-only discourses (policies, programs, beliefs, practices) on the local level.
This session is based on a paper that Freeman Field wrote in the summer of 2011. The reference to the paper is:
Freeman Field, R. (2011). Competing discourses about education and accountability for ELLs/bilingual learners. JMER vol. 2, pp. 9 - 34.
Publication: Assessment and Accountability in Language Education Programs: A Guide for Administrators and Teachers
Topic: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
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Object(s): presentation
Challenging Narrow Notions of Accountability in Dual Language Programs
Rebecca Field's prsentation from the November 2011 La Cosecha conference in New Mexico. This interactive session is intended to help (dual language) educators look critically at their (dual language) programs in relation to current assessment and accountability requirements under NCLB. Participants are encouraged to identify concrete assessment and accountability strengths and challenges, broadly defined, that they face in their programs. Participants are also encouraged to identify action steps they can take to improve their assessment and accountability systems.
Publication: Assessment and Accountability in Language Education Programs: A Guide for Administrators and Teachers
Topic: Professional Development
Specialty:
Object(s): presentation