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Creighton board endorses language-acquisition progress report; district outlines summer interventions for emerging multilingual students
Summary
The Creighton Governing Board approved Goal 3 progress monitoring after hearing district staff present preliminary AzELLA and classroom data, summer programming plans and staffing changes intended to accelerate English-language proficiency for emerging multilingual students.
The Creighton School District Governing Board on June 17 approved the Goal 3 progress monitoring report after district staff presented preliminary results from AzELLA testing and an update on programs for emerging multilingual students.
The report, led by Dr. Pambo with coordinator Sarah Beth George presenting classroom- and program-level inputs, showed the district has about 1,500 emerging multilingual students and preliminary AzELLA results for 1,200 of them. The district reported meeting its interim annual target for one measure: “the percent of emerging multilingual students that increase one or more levels on the Azela” with a preliminary 37% result compared with a 31% target for the year. Dr. Pambo cautioned the AzELLA results are preliminary because 300 students enrolled during the year lack last-year test data.
District staff described instructional changes and staffing intended to…
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