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- Memo: Spring 2024 New York State English as aSecond Language Achievement Test (NYSESLAT) (March 2024)
If you have questions concerning the procedures for administering these tests that are not addressed by this document, please contact by email at emscassessinfo@nysed.gov or by calling 518‑474‑5902. - 2024 NYSESLAT School Administrator's Manual (March 2024)
- Topic Briefs 5 to 8 for Integrated Co-Teaching in the English as a New Language Classroom is now available (March 2024)
- Academic and Linguistic Demands: Creating Access to the Next Generation Learning Standards in English Language Arts for Linguistically Diverse Learners (December 2023)
- Bilingual and English as a New Language Services for English Language Learners who are Students with Disabilities (January 2024)
- Memo: 2023 NYSESLAT—Determining an English Language Learner’s (ELL) English Language Proficiency Level (August 2023)
- NYSED Statement on Rights of Newly Arrived Immigrants (August 15, 2023)
- English Language Learner (ELL) Identification and Placement for Recently Arrived Children and Youth (August 16, 2023)
- Revised Procedure for Next-Day Completion of Testing for English Language Learners on Regents Examinations (September 2023)
- 2024 New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test: New Grade 1 Test and Mode of Administration (September 2023)
- NYSESLAT Assessments by Birth Date/Age for Ungraded Students in 2023–24 (Septemnber 2023)
- Enrolling students who are refugees and asylum seekers (October 2, 2023)
Immigrants
- A Guide to Community-Based Organizations for Immigrants
- Educational Services for Recently Arrived Evacuees, Refugees, Immigrants and/ or Unaccompanied Children (April 2022)
- Foreign Transcript Evaluations (PDF Version)
- K-12 Resources for Afghan Evacuees (US Department of Education January 14, 2022)
- Potential Effects of the War in Ukraine on School Communities (May 2022)
- Provision of Educational Services for Recently Arrived Unaccompanied Children and Youth (May, 26, 2021)
- Resources for Ukrainian Parents and Students
- Resource Guide for the Education of New York State Students from Caribbean Countries Where English is the Medium of Instruction
- Vaccinations in Refugee Children: New York State and New York City Recommendations and Guidelines
- Welcome to Our Schools Program - This program is designed by the Bureau of Refugee and Immigrant Assistance (BRIA) to ease the transition of refugee children into the elementary and secondary schools of New York State.
ELLs
- 2022 NYSESLAT - Determining an ELL Language Proficiency Level
- NYSITELL Information
- Art as a Tool for Teachers of ELLs
- Bilingual Education Resources: Supporting and Sustaining Initiative
- Bilingual Study Notes for Elementary Science and Social Studies
- Co-Teaching for ELLs
- CR Part 154 Documents
- Effective Practices for Holistically Educating English Language Learners in New York State
- Glossaries and Instructional Materials
- New York State Seal of Biliteracy
- NYSED Bilingual Education Toolkit
- Promising Instructional Practices for Secondary English Language Learners (Grade 7-12)
- Resource Collection for World Languages
- Roadmap to College for English Language Learners/Multilingual Learners
- Students with Interrupted/Inconsistent Formal Education (SIFE) Resources
- Template for Content Area and English as a New Language Planning
Language and Culture
- Culturally Responsive Back-to-School Titles for Students and Educators
- Haitian Creole Language Arts Curriculum Project (Grades K-5)
Introduction | Grade K | Grade 1 | Grade 2 | Grade 3 | Grade 4 | Grade 5 - Language and Culture Guides - Concise descriptions of the languages and cultures our students bring with them - with great tips for educators.
Arabic, NY Arab-American Demographic Sheet, Bengali, Burmese, Burma Facts, Chinese, French, Haitian, Karen, Karen Cultural Tips & Trends, Korean, Native American, Russian, Somali, Urdu - Spanish Native Language Arts Curriculum Guide (SNLACG)
The Spanish Native Language Arts Curriculum Guide (SNLACG) was developed as an initiative of the NYC Department of Education’s Office of English Language Learners (OELL). It represents a consensus among a Native Language Arts (NLA) core group of Spanish-language educators and administrators, and is the first integration of its kind of all four New York State Language Learning Standards: Native Language Arts (NLA), English Language Arts (ELA), English as a Second Language (ESL), and Languages Other Than English (LOTE). - Suggested Spanish Literature and Reading Books for Grades K-12
- Supplementary American History Reading Materials in Chinese
Cultural Organizations
- CHINESE
China Institute - FRENCH
French Institute Alliance Française - HAITIAN CREOLE
EspasKreyòl - GERMAN
Goethe-Institut New York - RUSSIAN
Pushkin Society in America - SPANISH
Agregaduría de Educación en Nueva York
Instituto Cervantes New York