Policies / Políticas:

Public Complaint Procedure / Procedimiento de quejas públicas 

Nota: Las Pólizas del Distrito Escolar de Philomath estarán disponibles en español pronto 

ELD Program Philosophy

The vision of the Philomath School District is to graduate every student and transition each of them into a job, training, or college. The same rigorous goal applies to our EL students. The philosophy of the Philomath ELD program is to intensify our language supports for ELs in core content classes through embedding SIOP and AVID strategies, high expectations, and positive adult relationships into every learning environment.

Purpose of English Language Development Instruction

While there are many opportunities during the course of a day in a language-rich classroom environment for language learning, merely being exposed or engaged in activities in English is not sufficient to assure the development of full academic language proficiency.  Limited-English proficient students must receive explicit instruction in the English language that is differentiated based on their English language proficiency levels. Effective language development teaches competency in the functions, forms, syntax, and vocabulary of the English language. ELD instruction provides many opportunities to develop oral and written fluency. Developing English learners’ language is crucial to supporting their literacy development.

The Philomath School District utilizes an ELD pull-out or push in instructional approach to address the language acquisition needs of English Language Learners.  Based on low numbers of students at each grade level, this model meets the needs for our English Language Development (ELD) program.  In the regular classroom, trained classroom teachers use Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) and AVID strategies to support language development in regular content areas.

The ELD classes teach acquisition of English language skills so that ELs can meaningfully access and participate in academic English only mainstream classrooms. The ELD curriculum promotes academic vocabulary and language within an academically rich curriculum in order to increase student’s skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing.  At the elementary level, the National Geographic/Cengage Reach curriculum is used as the text for grades K through 5.  At the middle school level, the National Geographic/Cengage Inside curriculum is used as the text for grades 6-8.  At the high school level, the National Geographic/Cengage Edge curriculum is used as the text for grades 9-12. 

2019 Annual Reports:

• Annual Report to the Legislature on English Language Learners  

2018 Annual Reports:

• Annual Report to the Legislature on English Language Learners 
• Informe anual a la asamblea legislativa sobre los estudiantes del idioma ingles