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Week 6
ELL Trends

Rationale for Learning

nStudent

and family engagement and success to School, District, School Board and Community

nAccountability

Expectations
nStay nBe

Engaged

prepared to experience discomfort your truth prepared for a lack of closure (our work is never done)

nSpeak nBe

+ ELL Enrollment Trends Since 2000

6000 5000

4850 4149 3309 3514 3703 3822 4354 4541

5053

4000

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3122 2669

3167

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1000

0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

In 10 years. The program popula=on increases 90% Went from 8% to 15% of the total K-12 popula=on It now cons=tutes roughly at 20% of the popula=on in K-5 program

+ Language Groups have gone from 40

to more than 80
Swahili 1% Vietnamese 5% Others 8% Arabic 5% Bosnian 2% Burmese 1% Creoles 2%

Chin 1% Spanish 58% Dinka 1%

Karen 5% Karenni 3% Lao 2% Nepali 2%

Somali 3%

Rundi 1%

+ Other Languages in DMPS with the State Codes (40 kids or less in a
language group). We also do have a number of languages with no state coding, they are all included in Others.
Grebo Gujarati Hindi Hmong Igbo Kannada Kikuyu Kinyarwanda Kurdish Kwanyama Lao Lingala Mandingo Mende Mongo Mon-Khmer (Other) Newari Nilo-Saharan (Other) Nubian languages Zapotec Persian Philippine (Other) Pushto Romanian Russian Serbian Shan Somali Soninke Sorbian languages Tagalog Tai (Other) Telugu Thai Tigrinya Twi Urdu Yoruba Acoli Afrikaans Akan Amharic Assamese Bambara Basa Braj Central Khmer Chinese Corsican Creoles French-based Croatian Czech Ewe Faroese French Ganda German

Other Languages in DMPS with the State Codes (40 kids or less in a language group). We also do have a number of languages with no state coding, they are all included in Others.
Acoli Afrikaans Akan Amharic Assamese Bambara Basa Braj Central Khmer Chinese Corsican Creoles French-based Croatian Czech Ewe Faroese French Ganda German Grebo Gujarati Hindi Hmong Igbo Kannada Kikuyu Kinyarwanda Kurdish Kwanyama Lao Lingala Mandingo Mende Mongo Mon-Khmer (Other) Newari Nilo-Saharan (Other) Nubian languages Zapotec Persian Philippine (Other) Pushto Romanian Russian Serbian Shan Somali Soninke Sorbian languages Tagalog Tai (Other) Telugu Thai Tigrinya Twi Urdu Yoruba

ELL Program and Services

n There are a total of 41 ELL sites and 3 Intensive

Language Centers and 1 Special program (FP):

5 high schools 8 middle schools 28 elementary schools (1 Parochial School; Holy Family ) 3 Intensive Language Centers: Central Campus, Meredith, and Walnut Street 1 Special program at Future Pathways

Engaging beyond ELL

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is important to see the richness of various cultures in our district by appreciating that everyone brings their own history, experiences, and beliefs and as a result we are all learn from each other and all our lives are enhanced

Thank You
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Thank you for your time and participation For next week please read the article posted on the website and participate in all activities. See you in a few weeks