BRIGANCE Training Materials Now Available
The 2024-2025 Brigance Training Materials webpage is now available. This webpage is password protected and contains the training materials that district trainers need for the one-hour training for experienced Brigance proctors and the three-hour required training for new K Screen proctors.
Please email Lisa Jett with any questions.
Free WIDA Webinars Available for 2024-2025
WIDA is bringing educators six new WIDA Webinars for 2024-2025! These are free professional learning opportunities that span a wide range of topics related to multilingual learners. WIDA will explore reading instruction with multilingual learners, strategies for supporting multilingual newcomers and more.
Check out the six new free WIDA Webinar articles to learn about each webinar and register to attend. For more information, contact WIDA.
Please share this with all educators who work with English Learners (ELs).
New 2020 Edition Video Impacts ACCESS for ELLs
Watch the Revising ACCESS: The Impact of the Standards Framework, 2020 Edition video (five minutes) to learn the following:
- How ACCESS for ELLs connects to the WIDA English Language Development Standards
- About key elements of the WIDA ELD Standards Framework, 2020 Edition
In case school and district staff missed it, WIDA is revising ACCESS Online and Paper and redesigning Kindergarten ACCESS to incorporate the 2020 Edition. WIDA Consortium members will use these revised assessments in the 2025-2026 WIDA testing year. For more information, contact WIDA.
Please share with K-12 educators who work with ELs.
WIDA Automated Writing Scoring Feedback
WIDA would like to learn more about K-12 educators’ perspectives on automated writing scoring and automated writing feedback with multilingual learners. Please complete the survey by June 17. Participation in the survey should take no more than ten minutes to complete. For more information, contact WIDA.
Please share with K-12 educators who work with ELs.
Marco DALE Grade-level Cluster Materials Available
Grade-level cluster materials help educators implement the Marco DALE by applying its four components to kindergarten, grades 1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-8 and 9-12. New resources in these materials include Language Functions and Language Features, as well as annotated language samples. The Marco DALE grade-level clusters and reference cards are now available at the WIDA Store. For more information, contact WIDA.
Please share with K-12 educators who work with ELs.
Assessment Scores in Infinite Campus
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) strives to publish student results data in Infinite Campus (IC) as it becomes available. Beginning Tuesday, May 28, KDE will publish April 2024 KYOTE scores to districts.
Please email KDE data services inbox with any questions.
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