Brookside School serves 322 students from Transitional Kindergarten to second grade.

About 20% of these students require ELD services. The qualifications for a student to be

redesignated at Brookside are dependent on his/her grade level. Due to the limited grade levels

in this school, redesignation is fairly uncommon.

For first and second grade students already receiving ELD services, a student cannot be

considered for redesignation until their CELDT scores are available. Students need to score

advanced or early advanced on their overall CELDT score and can have no score lower than

intermediate in each of the domains: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. After the CELDT

scores are received, the students overall report card scores are taken into consideration.

Students must be achieving scores of basic or higher on all report card benchmark scores. Lastly,

the decision to redesignate or not, comes down to teacher input. The ELD teacher will discuss

the student with his/her classroom teacher to see is the support is no longer needed. Teachers are

careful to continue giving ELs the support they need until it is no longer beneficial to them.

They want to be sure that ELs success will not deteriorate without the small group instruction

and English language instruction available to them.

An example from the ELD teacher at Brookside refers to a 2nd grade EL student, Maria.*

Maria took the CELDT and received scores supporting her redesignation. Marias report card

scores also demonstrated her ability to perform at the appropriate academic level. When

discussing potential redesignation with Marias classroom teacher, it was decided that the support

from attending ELD classes were extremely beneficial to this EL and they did not feel that she

was ready to discontinue the services at this point. Teachers are very careful to redesignate

students only when they are certain the student will be successful without services. Once these

services are documented as being unnecessary, it is very difficult for a student to get them back.
 For kindergarten students, redesignation is not typically an option. When students are

enrolled in kindergarten, the parents complete paperwork that tells the school if the student

should be tested for EL services. If a students scores are high enough, that student is considered

to be initial fluent English proficient (IFEP), and no further testing or services are required.

Students that receive scores that require EL services are enrolled in ELD classes in order to get

the support they need to learn and do well in school.

Brookside is very fortunate to offer Transitional Kindergarten, a program for students

who have fall birthdays that might benefit from two years of kindergarten. When students are

enrolled in TK, they are eligible for ELD services. This complicates the redesignation for

students entering kindergarten who have already been classified as EL. When these students take

the CELDT at the beginning of kindergarten, the teacher will hand score the assessments.

Students that score advanced or early advanced in speaking and listening, or get an overall score

of advanced or early advanced and their domain scores for speaking and listening are

intermediate or higher are considered for redesignation. The scores for reading and writing are

not taken into consideration because typically students are not reading and/or writing at that age.

A kindergarten student cannot be officially considered RFEP until later in the school year.

Paperwork is still filed and completed for the student in order to document that the student is no

longer in need of EL services.

Overall, data from CELDT scores and report card scores, along with teacher input of

student performance are what qualifies a student for redesignation at Brookside Elementary

School.

*Name has been changed in order to ensure confidentiality.