WEEKLY BULLETIN for AUGUST 29, 2016
Monday, August 29
UPCOMING EVENTS
Staff Mtg. – 3:20, room 202
Sept 5
Sept 7
Oct 5
Oct 7
Tuesday, August 30
Back to School Night, 5:15-7pm
Intramural volleyball games begin @ lunch
NO SCHOOL - HOLIDAY
Teacher PD, Min. Day
Teacher PD, Min. Day
End of 1st Quarter
INTEGRATED ELD
Wednesday, August 31
Picture Day/ Back to School Dance
Intramural volleyball games @ lunch
Lunch
time
activities
Westfield
Author’s
Fair last day
Thursday, September 1
Intramural volleyball games begin @ lunch
Friday, September 2
Professional Development Minute
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Monday, August 29 – Staff Meeting: We will be
meeting in room 202 and begin work on our new
action plan with an added focus on EL instruction.
2. Tuesday, August 30 – Our provider, The English
Learner Group, will be coming in the morning
assisting our campus to support us in our efforts to
increase student achievement in the English
Learner population at Sequoia. The visit will include
going to classrooms where English learners are
present.
3. Tuesday, August 30 – Back to School Night from
5:15-7pm. There will be a general parent meeting
first followed by classroom visits at 5:45. Please
have sign-in sheets in the back of your rooms. The
night will end promptly at 7pm. More information will
be provided at our staff meeting.
4. Intramural noon time games will begin on Tuesday,
August 30. We will play weekly for four weeks on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursday. Please
encourage student participation.
INTEGRATED ELD IN CONTENT AREAS
Integrated ELD refers to ELD throughout the day and across
the disciplines. Content teachers use their content standards
and ELD standards with their focal ELA standards to support
English leaners’ linguistic and academic achievement.
“Effective instructional experiences for ELs throughout the day
and across the disciplines:
 Are interactive and engaging, meaningful and relevant,
and intellectually rich and challenging
 Are appropriately scaffolded in order to provide strategic
support that moves learners toward independence
 Build both content knowledge and academic English
 Value and build on primary language and culture
and other forms of prior knowledge”
Text Analysis: Text Level/Sentence and Clause Level/Phrase
Level/Word Level Understandings
Standards: Content, CCSS ELA/Literacy, ELD Standards
Content Objectives: Based on grade-level content standards
Language Objectives: Links to the Content Objectives; based
on text demands using ELD Standards
(SDAIE) Strategies, Differentiation, Engagement,
Assessment Cycle: Assess prior knowledge, scaffold,
modeling, collaborative practice, independent practice,
informal assessment, re-teaching, & checking for
understanding.