ALD4ALL – Culminating Celebration

Dear ALD4ALL Principals and Team Leads:

We are pleased to announce the culminating celebration for the ALD4ALL project to honor the hard work of the teams, over the past three years.

Please join us for this celebration at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa, at the Santa Ana Pueblo, in the Cottonwood Pavilion on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, from 8:00AM-3:30PM.

Download
the Flyer
Kindly share this invitation and registration link with your team, which has been working with our ALD4ALL facilitators.  If there is someone you would like for us to invite on your behalf that is not directly part of your team, please let us know as space is limited.

Please register as soon as possible for the ALD4ALL End of Year Celebration is below:   

reg.abcsignup.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0030-0015-416deb80bca4461e9d0e025fd96c233d

Detailed agenda to follow!

Accommodations:

Attendees traveling from outside the Albuquerque area (60 miles or more):

  • Lodging for one night will be covered. 
  • Please contact Anna J. DeLay directly to make lodging arrangements. 
  • Please note all lodging arrangements must be made by May 5, 2016.
  • Mileage will be reimbursed. 

Attendees within 60 miles of the Albuquerque area:

  • Lodging for attendees within the Albuquerque area (60 miles or less) will not be covered or reimbursed.
  • Discounted room rate for the event is available until May 5, 2016.
  • Please call 1-888-421-1442 and let them know you are attending the NMPED ALD4ALL event on June 1st.
  • Mileage will not be reimbursed.

If you have any questions, please contact:
Anna DeLay
BME Specialist
Bilingual Multicultural Education Bureau
New Mexico Public Education Department
Jerry Apodaca Education Building
300 Don Gaspar Avenue
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Tel. 505 827-4644
annaj.delay@state.nm.us

Teacher Self-Assessment Scales (TSAS) Info and Updates

Enter TSAS Questionnaire responses online now: ALD4ALL teachers should use this online form

Enter TSAS Questionnaire responses online now: Any and all participants may use this form

Download the TSAS Scales questionnaire:
    PDF: tsas-scales-spring-2016

TSAS-NMTEACH Summary Worksheet (blank, elements plus addendum questions):
    PDF: tsas-summary-sheet-2016.pdf

TSAS Overview (this document updated as needed):
    PDF: tsas-overview-2016.pdf

TSAS Guidance (this document updated as needed):
    PDF: tsas-guidance-2016.pdf

TSAS Powerpoint (slideshow):
    ald4all.positivepractices.com/tsas-powerpoint.pptx

Download the latest NMTEACH Full Rubric
(Version Aug. 19, 2015):
    PDF: nmteach-full-rubric-20150819

PED NMTEACH Portal Entry (Updated: August 2019):
webnew.ped.state.nm.us/bureaus/educator-growth-development/nmteach/
 

Download the Teacher-Efficacy Research Summary from the journal Principal:
Teacher_Efficacy_What_is_it_and_Does_it_Matter.pdf

All links above in one place (updated as needed):
    ald4all.positivepractices.com/tsas-links

Bilingual Education Day at the State Legislature, State Capitol Rotunda

Thursday, February 4, 2016 — 12:00-2:00pm

Join the New Mexico Association for Bilingual Education (NMABE), the Public Education Department’s (PED) Bilingual Multicultural Education Bureau (BMEB), the State Bilingual Advisory Council (SBAC), educators, students, and community members across the state as we celebrate New Mexico’s rich cultural and linguistic heritage and traditions!

Download the flyer for more information!

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Teacher Self-Assessment Scales – Links Updated

Enter TSAS Questionnaire responses online now: ALD4ALL teachers should use this online form

Enter TSAS Questionnaire responses online now: Any and all participants may use this form

Download the TSAS Scales questionnaire:
    PDF: tsas-scales-spring-2016

TSAS-NMTEACH Summary Worksheet (blank, elements plus addendum questions):
    PDF: tsas-summary-sheet-2016.pdf

TSAS Overview (this document updated as needed):
    PDF: tsas-overview-2016.pdf

TSAS Guidance (this document updated as needed):
    PDF: tsas-guidance-2016.pdf

TSAS Powerpoint (slideshow):
    ald4all.positivepractices.com/tsas-powerpoint.pptx

Download the latest NMTEACH Full Rubric
(Version Aug. 19, 2015):
    PDF: nmteach-full-rubric-20150819

PED NMTEACH Portal Entry (Updated: August 2019):
webnew.ped.state.nm.us/bureaus/educator-growth-development/nmteach/
 

Download the Teacher-Efficacy Research Summary from the journal Principal:
Teacher_Efficacy_What_is_it_and_Does_it_Matter.pdf

All links above in one place (updated as needed):
    ald4all.positivepractices.com/tsas-links

ALD4ALL Objectives

  1. Five ALD4ALL Project Objectives
  2. Identify effective bilingual multicultural education programs (BMEPs) serving CLD and EL students by June 30, 2014. This objective has been met by established timeline. For the third year, we are adding additional schools/partner organizations.
  3. Conduct effective practices inquiry among selected schools to determine how schools with BMEPs achieve positive results for CLD and EL students and share results statewide. This objective has been met by the end of second year. Dissemination of effective practices will continue beyond the project.
  4. From findings of the effective practices inquiry of schools/programs, develop and implement professional learning (PL) for educators to address the academic language learning needs of CLD and EL students by June 30, 2015, scaling up by June 30, 2016. This objective is on track to meet established timeline. In the second year of the project, we continued working with eight of the twelve schools initially selected for inquiry. For the third year, we are adding additional schools/partner organizations.
  5. Adopt (Common Core State Standards) CCSS-aligned Spanish language development and/or Spanish language arts standards and assessment. This objective has been partially met. In the second year, a taskforce was convened and made recommendations to the PED for moving forward. Work toward meeting this goal will continue in the third project year. Furthermore, addressing local needs to support indigenous language revitalization will be pursued.
  6. Adopt and implement New Mexico State Seal of Bilingualism/Biliteracy by June 30, 2016. This objective is on track to meet established timeline. The seal has been adopted as statute and rule will be implemented this school year—the students in the graduating class of 2016 are the first eligible recipients.

Updated: Sept. 2015

End-of-School-Year Evaluation Forms

Dear Colleagues / Estimados Colegas,

We are offering a new incentive: participants are invited each time they submit an ALD4ALL questionnaire response to submit another entry into the ALD4ALL drawing for ten $25 Amazon Gift Cards to be awarded in early June 2015.

We are requesting all ALD4ALL associated teachers and administrators to submit an end-of-school-year response to the online Teacher Self-Assessment Scales (TSAS).  To submit the TSAS questionnaire, please use the online form at ald4all.positivepractices.com/ald4all.html   It only takes a few minutes and we only need one response per individual.
Then submit an entry into the drawing at ald4all.positivepractices.com/drawing.html

Want to Double Down?

We would also be most appreciative if you'd submit an ALD4ALL program-wide end-of-school-year evaluation response.   This one is just a handful of questions to rate your experience with the ALD4ALL project, and takes about two minutes, max.   To submit this response, use the online form at ald4all.positivepractices.com/ald4all-evaluation.html

Then double your odds by submitting another entry into the drawing at ald4all.positivepractices.com/drawing.html

All of your feedback is confidential and very, very helpful to the project.   All of the links provided above are available on the front page of the ALD4ALL website at ald4all.positivepractices.com/ Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks so much! Joseph

Joseph P. Martinez, Ph.D.
Director of Research and Evaluation
Center for Positive Practices
Santa Fe, NM 87505