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Bilingual/ESL Committee of Practitioners

The Bilingual/ESL Committee of Practitioners (COP), which is composed of Bilingual/ ESL professionals, serve as an advisory group to the Commissioner of the New York State Education Department (NYSED) to address critical issues affecting students who are classified as Limited English Proficient/English Language Learners (LEP/ELL). Below is information pertaining to COP meetings.

July 10 , 2012

• Agenda (58 KB)
• Notes of Meeting ( 57 KB)
• Academic Performance of English Language Learners on English Language Arts Tests
  (2007 to 2011) (716 KB)
  • Presentation by Ming Xu, Ph.D., Office of Assessment Policy, Development and Administration
    
• Diagnostic Tool for School and District Effectiveness (DTSDE): At-A-Glance (533 KB)
  • Presentation by Monica George-Fields, Senior Fellow for School Innovation
• What’s New with New York State’s Institutional Accountability System (184 KB)
  • Presentation by Ira Schwartz, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Accountability
• Bilingual Common Core Initiative: English Language Arts, English as a Second Language, and Native Language Arts Standards (851 KB)
  • Presentation by Ira Schwartz, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Accountability

• Changes to Regulations of the Commissioner (CR) Part 154 Relating to the Education of English Language Learners: SURVEY NOTIFICATION ( 236 KB)
  • Presentation by Ira Schwartz, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Accountability

 

December 9, 2011

• Agenda (56 KB)
• Notes of Meeting ( 242 KB)
• Suggested Recommendations for Exiting LEP/ELLs from Entitlement Status and Service (118 KB)
  • Presentation by Pedro J. Ruiz
• Recommendations for Engaging the Field to Review, Enhance, and Strengthen
  Commissioner’s Regulations Part 154  ( 611 KB)
  • Presentation by Ira Schwartz, Pedro Ruiz and Arlen Benjamin-Gomez
• ESEA Waiver: Opportunities for Flexibility in NYS ( 1,574 KB)
  • Presentation by Ira Schwartz

July 13 , 2011

• Agenda ( 59 KB)
• Notes of Meeting (226 KB)
• New Teacher/Principal Evaluation System and its Implication for LEP/ELLs  Presentation by Julia Rafal and Arlen Benjamin-Gomez
  • New York State: Measuring Teacher and Leader Effectiveness  (413 KB)
  • New York State Teacher and Principal Evaluation: Summary of Provisions in Draft Regulations (52KB)
  • Presentation Notes  (115 KB)
• Presentation by Pedro J. Ruiz
  • Part 154  (72KB)
  • New HLQ (940 KB)
  • ID Chart  (254KB)
  • Title III - New Monitoring for Districts (56 KB)
• Presentation by Ira Schwartz
  • Update on NYSED Initiatives (783 KB)

March 3, 2011

• Agenda ( 60 KB)
• Notes of Meeting ( 175KB)

• Framing Questions ( 85 KB)

• Power-Point Presentations:

  • EriK Sweet - NYS P-12 Common Core Learning Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts & Literacy ( 176 KB)
  • Dr. Mabel Rivera - Implications and Implementation Considerations of the CCSS for English Language Learners ( 5,947KB)

Information from COP meetings from 2010 and earlier can be found here.

Last Updated: September 10, 2012