HV RBERN Update

NYSED OBEWL has released this Guidance Document for the Provision of Services for ELL and World Languages Students During School Closures. The HV RBERN has scheduled a virtual meetup for this Monday, May 18, 2020, from 9:00 – 10:30 AM for district and school administrators and Bilingual/ENL program directors/coordinators to discuss the guidance and implications, and to share implementation ideas. Interested participants must register at this link in order to get the Zoom connection information.

As a reminder, the Hudson Valley Regional Bilingual Education Resource Network (HV RBERN) is gathering information about how we can support schools and educators on behalf of ELLs as we transition to summer and fall. Please complete this HV RBERN Regional Ongoing Support survey to inform our work. Please forward this survey to other educators in your district as well.

New sessions of Elementary and Secondary ELL Connection Fridays have been scheduled until the end of the school year. Please note, this is a new series and those who participated in previous series need to re-register in order to receive the connection details:

• 5/22/20, 6/5/20, 6/19/20 Secondary ELL Connection Friday - 3-DAY SERIES - via Zoom ONLINE Conference Call

• 5/29/20, 6/12/20 Elementary ELL Connection Fridays - 2-DAY SERIES - via Zoom ONLINE Conference Call

Upcoming NEW HV RBERN Professional Learning Opportunities

• 5/22/20-6/15/20 ELA Standards and Linguistically Diverse Learners: Advanced Literacies for Academic Success - ONLINE Course

• 5/26/20-6/8/20 Rethinking Family Engagement in the Age of Remote Learning - ONLINE Course

Annual Title III Immigrant Student Count for 2020-2021 ESSA Title III Allocations

NYSED has released the memo Immigrant Student Counts for 2020–21 ESSA Title III Immigrant Allocations to inform all LEAs to update and/or verify their counts of immigrant students in the Student Information Repository System (SIRS). NYSED will use these counts to calculate the allocations to LEAs for 2020-2021 ESSA Title III Immigrant funds.

Other Professional Learning Opportunities

SUNY Oneonta is offering its Bilingual Education Advanced Certificate program completely online. For more details, view the flyer here.

LIU Hudson continues its highly successful online program to provide Childhood Education Certification to currently certified New York State ENL teachers. Their 7th Cohort of teachers will begin their program on June 24, 2020 and complete it in May 2021. Please view the following documents: a flyer about the program, an application, and a brief checklist of items needed for admission. For additional program information, contact Dr. Janet Simon at Janet.Simon@liu.edu.

Please contact us with any questions or concerns.