Student Achievement and Language for ELL/Multilingual Learners
Hawaii
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Agenda Demographics ELL/Multilingual language learner Student
Achievement Data Best practices
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What is the % of ELL/MLL in HI DOE schools?
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Where are these ELL/MLL students distributed ethnically and
geographically?
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What are the languages spoken in the HI DOE? Which languages
are spoken the most?
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Total: 13027
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3950/ 13027 Filipino languages makes up 30% of languages spoken
in DOE 3753/13027 Micronesian languages make up 29%
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What is the academic achievement data on ELL/MLL students?
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Achievement Data
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Critically examine the next data. What do you see happening?
How do you explain the data?
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Discussion Summarize the article Education, Multilingualism and
Translanguaging in the 21 st Century and Dr. Garcias presentation.
Provide your opinion on Dr. Garcias thoughts and ideas and its
application to Hawaii. Guided questions: Define multilingualism and
translanguaging in your own words? What experience might you have
with multilingualism and using translanguaging? What are the
benefits and challenges of using multilingualism and
translanguaging? What do you think are the most effective ways to
teach multilingual learners?
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Upcoming Events Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - BOE Language
Meeting with presentation by Dr. Ofelia Garcia 8:30 AM 10 AM,
Testimonials welcome Wed, January 21, 2015 Daeufer Lecture
Presentation by Dr. Ofelia Garcia with panel co-sponsored COE&
HSTA 6:00 PM 8:00 PM Art Auditorium Thursday, January 22, 2015
Translanguaging Talk-Story 5:00 PM 7:00 PM COE Collaboration
Center
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Ofelia Garcia Professor of Urban Education and of Hispanic and
Luso- Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center of
the City University of New York. Former Professor of Bilingual
Education at Columbia Universitys Teachers College, Dean of the
School of Education at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island
University, and Professor of Education at The City College of New
York. Recent books: Bilingual Education in the 21st Century: A
Global Perspective; Educating Emergent Bilinguals, Handbook of
Language and Ethnic Identity, Negotiating Language Policies in
Schools: Educators as Policymakers, Imagining Multilingual Schools,
and A Reader in Bilingual Education. She is the Associate General
Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language.
Garca was the recipient of the 2008 NYSABE Gladys Correa Award, is
a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS)
in South Africa, and has been a Fulbright Scholar, and a Spencer
Fellow of the U.S.National Academy of Education.