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Board hears ACCESS test overview, district outlines 1:1 tutoring and Title III supports for multilingual learners
Summary
At its Sept. 16 meeting, the Montgomery Township Board of Education received an overview of district ACCESS test results and the supports the district uses for multilingual learners, including Title III-funded one-to-one tutoring and curriculum alignment to WIDA standards.
The Montgomery Township Board of Education on Sept. 16 heard a district presentation on ACCESS testing and the district’s supports for multilingual students, including 1:1 tutoring funded by Title III.
District staff described ACCESS as an annual, WIDA-based assessment that measures multilingual learners’ progress in listening, speaking, reading and writing. The presenter said the federal Every Student Succeeds Act requires an N-size minimum of 10 for reporting results by grade and that the district could therefore report detailed breakdowns for only two grade levels at this meeting.
The district’s multilingual education staff told the board that ACCESS measures language proficiency on a scale from entering, emerging, developing, expanding, bridging to reaching and is used to create an individual student profile to guide instruction.…
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