Domain 3: Competency 10

Question 1

LPAC

Answer 1

Language Proficiency Assessment Committee

Question 2

SBDM

Answer 2

Site-based Decision Making

Question 3

Involve Parents

Answer 3

• Parents are likely to speak their home language and not English
• essential to ELL progress in education
• schools to provide a welcoming environment (not intimidating)
• offer native language orientation for families about the school
• create classes for parents in ESL, literacy, citizenship, parent education
• create family learning projects
• parents read to children
• invite parents to be speakers at school
• embrace parents as decision-makers for their child’s education
• LPAC members
• Site-Based Decision Making (SBDM) teams
• Make parents aware of opportunities to volunteer