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Del Valle ISD outlines changes to bilingual, ESL instruction after testing gaps
Summary
District leaders presented a detailed review of bilingual and English-as-a-second-language programming, citing assessment gaps, a revised language-allocation plan and steps to expand teacher certification, family engagement and materials to improve English proficiency for emergent bilingual students.
Del Valle ISD officials presented data and a set of program changes Wednesday aimed at improving English proficiency for emergent bilingual students, who now make up about 43% of the district’s enrollment.
The presentation, delivered by Dr. Katrina Bailey, chief of learning and leadership, with Dr. Yolanda Grijalva, director of the multilingual department, said the district serves students speaking 24 home languages and is “now up to over 11,800 students.” Bailey said emergent bilinguals’ performance on the Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS) and STAAR shows progress in some cohorts but “we’re not where we want our emergent bilingual students to be.”
Bailey described several planned changes: revising the language-allocation plan to increase early English-language…
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