Contact: Tania Mena
ESOL Director
(754) 321-2957
tania.mena@browardschools.com
                              
Curriculum and Instruction                                                                             
Contact: Vicky Brioso-Saldala
Title III Coordinator
(754) 321-2965
victoria.saldala@browardschools.com

The goal of the ESOL Program is to ensure that all students, entering Broward County Public Schools with varying levels of limited English proficiency, receive comparable and comprehensible instruction.  This instruction helps these students to develop communicative and academic skills necessary for meeting national, state, and district educational standards.

All schools with students classified as English Language Learners (ELL) must provide an appropriate ESOL program to meet the specific students' needs in language learning, academic achievement, and in cultural integration.

Students in the ESOL program are required to meet the same curriculum standards as any other student in English/Language Arts and content area instruction.  The content of the curriculum is established by the Sunshine State Standards. ESOL strategies, supplementary materials, and native language assistance are used to ensure that comprehensible instruction is being provided to every ELL student.

The No Child Left Behind Act requires that school districts providing a language program under Title III help ensure that English Language Learners (ELL) students “attain English proficiency, develop high levels of academic attainment in English, and meet the same challenging State academic content and student achievement standards that all children are expected to meet” (Title III, Sec. 3102 Purposes, No Child Left Behind).

ESOL Resource Teachers provide the following services to schools and centers:

· Assist in implementing the ESOL program in accordance with the Florida ESOL Consent Decree;

· Support student achievement through ELL student assessment and placement;

· Maintain ELL student folders;

· Monitor students who have exited the program.

Resource teachers visit schools monthly and support student achievement through lesson modeling and instructional coaching. They also provide literacy and language development presentations for teachers of ELL students through faculty meetings, area curriculum council meetings, area advisory meetings, and presentations at Innovation Zone meetings.

Resource teachers assist administrators, teachers, guidance staff, registrars, and data processors for compliance with district, state, and federal program requirements.

The Multicultural & ESOL Program Services holds ESOL Curriculum/Contact Meetings bimonthly to provide staff development to school designated ESOL Contact teachers on the ESOL program.  For more information, please contact the Multicultural & ESOL Program Services Education Department at (754) 321-2957.

The Multicultural & ESOL Program Services Education Department has a team of bilingual/reading specialists available to support teachers/school staff.  They are available to: model, coach, and plan with teachers of ELL students; assist with the monitoring of reading, writing, and math instruction of ELL students; assist staff with implementation of ESOL instructional strategies; assist with the interpretation and analysis of data; and provide professional development on effective instructional strategies for ELL students.

For more information, please contact the Multicultural & ESOL Program Services Education Department at (754) 321-2965.

Links
Consent Decree
No Child Left Behind
School Board Policy 6000.1 - Student Progression Plan
Parental Involvement

ESOL Services
Interpretation/Translation Services
Contact: Yvette Fernandez
Assessment and Interpreter Services
(754) 321-2972
yvette.fernandez@browardschools.com

From the time of students' registration, every effort must be made to inform and orient
parents to the Broward County Public Schools System through the use of materials
translated into the three predominant languages: Haitian Creole, Portuguese, and
Spanish.

District trained language interpreters and translators provide support services to
District offices, schools, students and parents. Schools can also request the assistance of these interpreters and translators from the Multicultural & ESOL Program Services Education Department (Click here).

Interpreters assist at parent conferences, ESE staffings, ELL Committee meetings, and other pertinent meetings where heritage language assistance might be needed.

The Multicultural & ESOL Program Services Education Department offers training for
interpreters and users of interpreter services to work together effectively in serving ELL
students and families.

The Multicultural & ESOL Program Services Education Department employs full-time
translators who translate district-wide forms and documents that are sent home in the three major languages: Haitian Creole, Portuguese, and Spanish. These include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Code of Student Conduct Books and Parent Guides
• Registration Packets
• Elementary Report Cards and Inserts
• Elementary Interim Reports/Academic Improvement Plans (AIPs)
• Parent Conference Forms
• Alternative Education Forms
• Title I Forms
• Early Childhood Packets
• Pre-K and VPK forms and flyers
• Health Forms
• Summer School Packets
• Privacy Act Form
• ESE Forms
• Early Intervention Forms
• Magnet Program Forms and Brochures
• Gifted Forms

Best Practices
Professional Development/Training
Forms
Links

Bilingual School Psychologists

Contact: Dr. Diane K. Wilen
Bilingual School Psychologist
(754) 321-2968
diane.wilen@browardschools.com

The bilingual school psychologist at the Multicultural & ESOL Program Services Education Department consults with schools and area and district staff on issues related to intervention and assessment with English Language Learners (ELL) populations and on individual cases of at-risk and exceptional ELL students.  Other services provided include training and the development of resource materials for teachers, administrators, school psychologists, users and providers of interpreter services and parents, to support ELL student achievement.

Bilingual school psychologists are also employed by the following offices in the Broward County Public Schools:
North Area Student Services                                           (754) 321-3470
North Central Area Student Services                             (754) 321-3040
South Central Area Student Services                             (754) 321-3870
South Area Student Services                                          (754) 321-3614
Psychological Services District Office                           (754) 321-2460
Family Counseling Services                                            (754) 322-3153
Contact information for these offices can be obtained at the Psychological Services at www.broward.k12.fl.us/studentsupport/psychologicalservices/html/contacts.htm.

This site is intended to provide a forum for specialized information, best practices, resources, forms, and links to support school psychologists in their work with ELL students and families and the educators serving them.
                                              
Best Practices                                                                                                                             
Professional Development
Forms

Links
Broward County Public Schools
http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/studentsupport/psychologicalservices

Center for Applied Linguistics
www.cal.org

Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence
www.cal.org/crede

Colorín Colorado
www.colorincolorado.com

Florida Association of School Psychologists
www.fasp.org

National Association for Bilingual Education
www.nabe.org

National Association of School Psychologists
www.nasponline.org

National Association of School Psychologists Culturally Competent Practice
www.nasponline.org/culturalcompetence/index.html

National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs
www.ncela.gwu.edu

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
www.tesol.org