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District reports ACCESS for ELLs results; staff to expand sheltered‑instruction training
Summary
The district presented ACCESS for ELLs proficiency distributions and three‑year trends, identifying chronically absent and low‑income multilingual learners as groups needing targeted intervention and announcing sheltered‑instruction training for teachers.
Assistant Superintendent Moskowitz reviewed Voorhees Township’s ACCESS for ELLs results and explained the WIDA proficiency scale and scoring conventions for trustees.
He described the six proficiency levels (entering, emerging, developing, expanding, bridging and reaching) and explained that a student must reach a 4.5 proficiency score to be eligible to exit ESL services. Moskowitz said ACCESS scores include a whole‑number proficiency level and a decimal that indicates progress within that level.
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