Important Updates

CDE Updates

Title III Annual Online Reports

LEAs are required to complete the Title III Annual Online Reports (for each program: EL and Immigrant Student) depending on the funds they received for 2023-24. The Title III reports are now accessible until 11/11/24. Please complete the reports using the login information for the online reporting system sent to LEAs on 10/3/24. For questions about the surveys, please email at TitleIIISurvey@cde.ca.gov.

UPK Compilation of Resources

To support the success of students in TK and in CA State Preschool Programs (CSPP), CDE released a compilation of resources for families and implementers. Specifically for Dual Language Learners and Multilingual Learners, these resources were shared:

- Dual Language Learner (DLL) Support - Child Development

- Promoting School Success for Dual Language / Multilingual Learners: Partnering with Families

- Promoting School Success for Dual Language / Multilingual Learners: Implementing Best Practices

- Dual Language Immersion Preschool Guidance

- Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Toolkit for the English Learner Roadmap

- English Learner Roadmap Elementary School Teacher Toolkit

- Dual Language Learners in California State Preschool Program, 2023-24

- Language Access & Quality Implications for Dual Language Learner (DLL) Families

Escribo en Español Essay Contest

The Education Office of the Consulate General of Spain and the CDE are inviting California students to participate in the 2024–2025 “Escribo en Español” writing contest. “Escribo en Español” encourages students in grades 3-12 to further their Spanish writing skills by providing awards for the best prose and poetry. The theme for this year’s contest is “El planeta en peligro". All the necessary documents to participate can be found on the contest website. Teachers or administrative staff can enroll students. If you have any additional questions, please email escriboenespanol@educacion.gob.es

ELPAC Updates

Accessibility Resource Graphics

The California Assessment Accessibility Resource Graphics for the 2024–25 school year have been updated and are now available on the CAASPP and ELPAC Accessibility Resources web page. These graphics provide a one-page quick reference PDF for the embedded and non-embedded universal tools, designated support, and accommodations allowed in the CAASPP and ELPAC systems, including ELA/Literacy, Math, Science, CSA, ELPAC computer-based, and ELPAC paper-pencil.

Student Needs Matching Tool

The CAASPP Student Needs Matching tool is a new quick reference guide designed to help educators and individualized education program teams identify appropriate designated supports and accommodations for students in the classroom and on the CAASPP assessments. This document categorizes the available designated support and accommodations into groups according to the needs of a student.

Region 4 ML Leadership Institute

Call for Speakers!

Mark your calendars! The 3rd Annual Region 4 ML Leadership Institute will be coming in a few months! The theme this year will be Better Together: Building Partnerships and Strengthening Collaboration for Multilingual Learner Success. Each year, aside from bringing voices from researcher and experts in the field, the Institute also shines a spotlight on the amazing work of our local LEA experts -- you! If your LEA has been developing partnerships that build towards the success of our multilingual learners, whether internally across departments, with families and student organizations, or with external community partners, we'd love to hear from you! Our hope is to highlight a variety of districts' practices so they can share with us the multiple ways of collaborations happening around our region. Please email us at MLLN@cccoe.k12.ca.us if you have questions or are interested in sharing about your work.

Thanks to your feedback, we are trying something new this year. Instead of two virtual half-days, this year's Institute will have an in-person element! Day 1 on Thursday, January 23rd, will stay virtual while Day 2 on Friday, January 24th, will be held in person at San Mateo County Office of Education. Registration information will be coming soon! We look forward to seeing you at the Region 4 ML Leadership Institute!