Multi-layered, multi-year rollout combining guidance resources, webinars, workshops, and training-of-trainers to build local capacity for a new assessment tool¶

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Description¶

The OPTEL rollout was planned as a multi-layered, multi-year endeavor whose initial priority was guidance that was compliant with law, clear and digestible, and informed by evidence. Supports included the OPTEL User Guide, FAQs, scripts for parent discussions, two listening sessions on LEA needs, spring 2024 statewide webinars, in-person workshops, and training-of-trainer materials, with sessions "designed to be highly engaging and practical for participants."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Strategic messaging and implementation support planned even while the tool was still being developed and field tested

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• Local educational agency staff, teachers, and county office of education English learner specialists

Target Learning Goals¶

• Building educator and agency capacity to implement standardized reclassification procedures

Related Strategies¶

• Layered professional development for curriculum implementation (webinars, workshops, coaching)
• Cross-division convenings and joint review sessions to strengthen a state education agency's internal collaboration on multilingual policy

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Key Sources¶

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