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North Park pilots AVID Excel to accelerate reclassification of long-term English learners
Summary
District and school presenters described AVID Excel, a three-year structured ELD pilot at North Park Academy designed to accelerate long-term English learners; presenters reported 62% of the inaugural seventh-grade cohort reclassified out of ELD and outlined a phased district rollout contingent on implementation and training costs.
District staff and North Park Academy presenters told the El Rancho Unified School District board that AVID Excel, a structured English-language-development pathway, has shown early success in helping long-term English learners accelerate toward reclassification.
The program, a three-year implementation that the district piloted with seventh-graders in 2023-24, restructures classes by language ability rather than grade and adds scholar groups and leadership-building activities. A presenter for North Park said the pilot aimed at students closest to reclassification and reported that “62 percent of the class reclassified and moved out of the ELD…
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