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Open Standards and Targeted Resources: Crafting Dynamic Recommendations for English Learners

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Pennsylvania Convention Center, 105AB

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Presenters

Angela Ingram

Knowledge and Interoperability Manager

Georgia Department of Education
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Angela Ingram, Knowledge and Interoperability Manager at the Georgia Department of Education: Angela is Knowledge and Interoperability Manager at the Georgia Department of Education. She is responsible for Georgia’s learning ecosystem for learning standards and curriculum resources in an engaging digital environment. Angela has 25 years committed to advancing learning through technology. Prior to joining the office of Technology Services at the Department, Angela spent 15 years as a middle school educator excelling in technology integration for teaching and learning. She holds degrees in education, technology, and leadership from Brenau University and Lincoln Memorial University.

Dr. Lynn Shafer Willner

ELD Standards/Accessibility Researcher

WIDA at University of Wisconsin-Madison
@LangLearnAccess

Dr. Lynn Shafer Willner designs language standards for multilingual learners, digital tools, and accessibility/accommodations research and guidelines. As a member of the WIDA Assessment Team, her current work focuses on the integration of the WIDA Standards Framework into the WIDA suite of assessments. Most recently, Lynn developed the alignment architecture for the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework (2020 Edition) and 2020 Digital Explorer. She has also authored a variety of articles on the WIDA Standards Framework and accessibility for multilingual learners. Lynn has a Ph.D. in Education from George Mason University with specializations in multilingual/multicultural education and instructional technology.

Allison Sobiecki

Director, Curriculum and Assessment

Newsela

Alli Sobiecki is the Director of Curriculum and Assessment at Newsela, where she leads initiatives focused on assessment design, standards correlation, and curricular consistency across the company's product offerings. In her work at Newsela, and formerly at Pearson Virtual Schools, Alli partners closely with technology experts to develop innovative ways to correlate content to state and national standards. She holds degrees from the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University.

Pepper Williams

President

Common Good Learning Tools

As president of Common Good Learning Tools, Pepper Williams brings to bear his training as a cognitive psychologist (Ph.D., Yale) and his two decades of developing digital learning products at Macmillan Learning, W.W. Norton, and School City. Pepper founded Common Good Learning Tools to help improve K-12 education by developing digital applications that assist in the work educators are already doing, rather than attempting to replace them.

Session description

States can now publish officially approved, machine-readable alignments between K12 content standards and English language development standards, using the open “standard for standards” (CASE). We show how these alignments enable content providers to target resource recommendations for English learners to teachers who are less well-versed in ELD frameworks.

Purpose & objective

Purpose
To raise awareness of the availability of open-source standards for labeling and aligning academic content standards and English language development standards and improve educator access to digital resources for English Learners.

Participant Objectives

Participants will be able to:
-Describe what Competencies and Standards Exchange (CASE) is and explain why open-source, interoperable, machine-readable standards are important.
-Describe differences between state language development and content standards.
-Describe might be possible when CASE is applied to state language development and content standards and these labels are applied to digital resources
-Describe how educational technology specialists might support collaboration among classroom teachers and language specialists as they identify standards expectations and resources that align with those expectations.

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Outline

10 minutes prior to session start:
Learn more about attendee's background and knowledge about WIDA using Mentimeter. [Mentimeter survey set to asynchronous delivery; so attendees can advance through questions at their own pace]

Presenter introductions/Session Overview
Mentimeter questions to start - https://www.menti.com/alynkx2dtso6
Results posted for 7 days at https://www.mentimeter.com/app/presentation/alwvv4e9k1rp6895hugsqizxx194ivgt

The WIDA English Language Development (ELD) Standards Framework
--Lynn provides key points of these standards for edtech specialists and content developers.

The Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE) specification
--Pepper provides an overview and description of what CASE is for and how it came about
--Ask participants: How do you think your organization might benefit from having standards coded in CASE format?

Georgia DOE’s use of CASE
--Angela explains why and how GaDOE coded their standards in CASE format, and how they came to want to use CASE to create their Title 1 /peer review conformance evidence.

WIDA + CASE = Cool stuff!
--Lynn, Angela, and Pepper explain how GaDOE, WIDA, and CGLT collaborated to get the WIDA standards into CASE format
--Invite participants to open and play around with the WIDA Digital Explorer on their phones or other devices. Go to http://standards.wida.us
--Angela shows GA’s alignments from content standards to WIDA standards in SuitCASE -
--Angela shows how teachers can access these alignments via Inspire

Newsela + CASE = More cool stuff in the future!
-- Alli discusses how Newsela is planning to take advantage of the WIDA CASE representation to make Newsela content even more useful for English language learners and their teachers

Final Thoughts for the Future: Developing Our Digital Resource Utopia
–Enables inter-product communication.
–Enable better collaborative planning and teaching among content and language teachers.
–What else could be done in the future?

Finalize with Mentimeter questions: https://www.menti.com/alynkx2dtso6

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Supporting research

Butcher, N. and Hoosen, S. (2012). Exploring the Business Case for Open Educational Resources. Commonwealth of Learning (COL). https://oasis.col.org/items/df93f89e-4697-40a1-886f-49403f6ca232

Desimone, L. M., Stornaiuolo, A., Flores, N., Pak, K., Edgerton, A., Nichols, T. P., … Porter, A. (2019). Successes and challenges of the “new” College- and Career-Ready Standards: Seven implementation trends. Educational Researcher, 48(3), 167–178. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X19837239

Dove, M., & Honigsfeld, A. (2010). ESL coteaching and collaboration: Opportunities to develop teacher leadership and enhance student learning. TESOL journal, 1(1), 3-22.

Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015, Pub. L. No. 114-95 § 114 Stat. 1177 (2015-2016).

State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA). (2018). Leveraging Data for Academic Excellence. https://www.setda.org/master/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/State-Leadership-Interoperability.pdf

Villavicencio, A., Jaffe-Walter, R., & Klevan, S. (2021). “You can’t close your door here:” Leveraging teacher collaboration to improve outcomes for immigrant English Learners. Teaching and Teacher Education, 97, 103227.

U.S. Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. (2018). A state’s guide to the U.S. Department of Education’s assessment peer review process. https://www2.ed.gov/admins/lead/account/saa/assessmentpeerreview.pdf

WIDA. (2020). WIDA English language development standards framework, 2020 edition: Kindergarten-grade 12. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. https://wida.wisc.edu/resources/wida-english-language-development-standards-framework- 2020-edition; 2020 WIDA Digital Explorer: http://standards.wida.us

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Session specifications

Topic:

Open educational resources

Grade level:

PK-12

Skill level:

Beginner

Audience:

Chief technology officers/superintendents/school board members, Curriculum/district specialists, Technology coordinators/facilitators

Attendee devices:

Devices required

Attendee device specification:

Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows
Laptop: Mac, PC, Chromebook
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows

Participant accounts, software and other materials:

Bring any device with internet access to view:

https://www.menti.com/alynkx2dtso6 - interactive survey used during session; results posted for 7 days at https://www.mentimeter.com/app/presentation/alwvv4e9k1rp6895hugsqizxx194ivgt

http://standards.wida.us
http://www.imsglobal.org/activity/case/
https://inspire.gadoe.org/course/23.0010/320
https://voices.njtesol-njbe.org/annual-voices-journal-2023/streamline-your-unit/ - directions for using the WIDA Standards Digital Explorer
https://satchelcommons.com/

Subject area:

ELL, Language arts

ISTE Standards:

For Coaches:
Collaborator

Partner with educators to identify digital learning content that is culturally relevant, developmentally appropriate and aligned to content standards.

For Education Leaders:
Systems Designer