1. Pathway to ELPAC One district’s story Carmel Acosta-Cooper, Ed.D.
Riverside Unified School District, Dept. Research, Assessment & Evaluation
Carmel Acosta-Cooper, Ed.D.
Senior Program Evaluator
(CELDT/ELPAC Coordinator)

2. CELDT vs ELPAC Building Background
With your neighbor review and sort the assessment descriptors
Place them on the grid based on your background knowledge of the CELDT and the ELPAC
If you don’t know, use your inferencing skills.
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3. How did you do?
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4. Info & Updates Out
ELPAC.org is the portal for test administration resources and
CDE ELPAC Website ( )
General Information
ELPAC Assessment Fact Sheet (CDE says no translations are planned)
ELPAC Domain Information Sheets (CDE says no translations are planned)
A Parent Guide to Understanding the ELPAC (translations available soon)
Other Resources in Spanish/Other languages
Educator Opportunities (range finding, standard setting, items alignment)
ELPAC Training of Trainer Sessions (seat allocations)
ELPAC Academy by SCOE – PD for teams that support EL instruction (includes a session on how to develop formative/interim assessments related to the ELPAC task types.
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13. RUSD District ELPAC Activities
Task types are set within a communicative context
Assesses collaborative standards (engagement in dialogue with others)
Involves integrated tasks, students draw info from listening/reading to generate spoken or written response
The initial assessment is shorter, fewer task types
The most complex/challenging task types on the CELDT become mid-range ELPAC task types.
Listening involved playing the audio prompts from TOMS
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14. District Activities
Informed district executives, school board, principals, site test coordinators
Provided site administrators a ppt template for sharing with teachers, parents, students for site leaders
Obtained feedback about the district ELPAC test window
February/March because of district testing and SBAC testing
Set up training for coordinators, examiners, training of trainers
Ordered sets of speakers for all sites for listening
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15. “ELPAC Pioneer” Group Complement instructional team’s work
Website information
Parent, student resources
Teacher resources including ELPAC modules to support teachers in instruction (basics, connections, details, resources)
Feedback back on ELPAC-related formative assessments
RUSD has representatives on ELPAC state groups, with those same reps on the Pioneer Group
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The ELPAC Pioneer group is a group of less than 15 with representation from various groups.

16. ELPAC Field Test Summative Assessment in March: 350 students (7 sites)
Initial Assessment in August-September: 100 students
SA students were selected by CDE (EL, EO, IFEP, RFEP)
No field test scores will be reported
IA students are grades 1, 2, 7, 9-10, 11-12
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17. ELPAC Field Test
Administering and scoring the speaking domain involves more training…new tasks…more rubrics
Examiners need good handle on all of the examiner scripts
New task types will be a challenge
Informational text, all domains
Integrated ELD, integrated tasks
Writing’s constructed response focus
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18. ELPAC Collaboration
Departments working collaboratively toward high quality instruction for EL students
Development of Formative Assessments related to ELPAC
ELPAC Academy team
District’s strengthening use of formative assessment
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Types of activities include listen to a story, then retell it and reading info in a graphic organizer, then writing about it.

19. Parent & Student Resources
Family Resource Center & Assessment Center
Easy to use tools for students, parents, teachers, site administrators
Translating information materials
CDE’s Domain information sheets & ELPAC Fact Sheet
Other ELPAC-related materials used in the district
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20. ELPAC Institute What is the ELPAC?
What is the ELPAC?
50 District, Site, Parent Reps attended
Timeline, design, performance levels
ELPAC & SBAC
CELDT vs ELPAC
ELPAC Pilot
Blueprints & Task Types
Standards tested
Informing next steps
Inspired many activities
Inspired work on tools
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RUSD EL Services brought Kris Nicholls, Director of Professional Development for the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE) in to conduct CABE’s ELPAC Institute. It was a full day session which provided much information about ELPAC such as its differences from CELDT, relationship to SBAC, the ELPAC Pilot, standards tested by ELPAC, ELPAC blueprints and task types, informing next steps.

21. ELPAC Institute Unpacking the ELPAC Tasks
Reviewed Task Types and Aligned Standards
Identified the themes across task types
e.g., exchanging info, listening actively, evaluating language choices,
expressing information, offering/supporting/justifying opinions,
reading closely literary and information text, composing literary and informational texts
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22. ELPAC Institute ELPAC Tasks Type Activity Task Title, Language Domain
What processes, skills, abilities and knowledge does the student need?
Instructional connections- What strategies already in use in the classroom /district/site?
Instructional Implications- What strategies to be implemented in the classrooms/district/site?
Next steps:  3 steps that can be taken in the next four weeks to prepare for the ELPAC
Task Title, Language Domain
ELD Standard(s)
What the examiner does
What the student does
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This was a very helpful activity that the institute participants accomplished. 

23. Unpacking ELPAC Tasks Types
ELPAC Institute
Unpacking ELPAC Tasks Types
Review the example template in the packet. 
With a partner, complete the blank portions of the reverse side
Use the info on the ELPAC task types and ELD standards sheets
Provide a couple of answers in the blank boxes.
You do not need to be exhaustive for this activity…just a few answers will be fine.
 Share out will follow in 5 minutes
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Needed from the CABE ELPAC Institute are the Task Type Template, Task Type Description and the ELD Standards that the task type address. In this presentation, the 7th grade ELD standards P1-C9, P1-A3 were used with the speaking task type regarding academic presentation was used. These two standards used in the example are related to the CCSS ELA-Literacy SL 7.1 standard. It could be helpful to provide this info in this activity.

24. Example of task type template in a different format which emerged from a group working on the “unpacking the ELPAC task type” activity
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25. Calendar 2017-18 2017-18 – CELDT for Initial Assessment
September – ELPAC Initial Assessment Field Test
October – ELPAC Training of Trainers
ELPAC Examiner Trainings (district specific)
February-May 2018 – ELPAC Summative Assessment
– ELPAC for Initial and Summative Assessment
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26. Will the test allocation increase?
How will the 4 performance level descriptors (ELPAC) connect to the 3 proficiency levels (ELD Standards “Emerging,” “Expanding,” “Bridging”)?
Will the test allocation increase?
How will TKs and K initial test takers this fall participate in ELPAC summative in 2018?
Will there be more EL students identified?
Will there be fewer reclassifications?
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27. Share out
Please take a few moments to share with the people your table about your district’s/site’s/department’s pathway to ELPAC.
After, we will go once around the room to share some highlights of the table discussion.
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28. RUSD Contacts Dept. of Research, Assessment & Evaluation
Carmel Acosta-Cooper, CELDT/ELPAC Coordinator, , ext ;
Crystal Howard-Johnson, CAASPP Coordinator, ext ;
Jenn Denton, Assessment Technician (CAASPP, CELDT/ELPAC), ext ;
Dept. Instructional Services (English Learner)
Pati DeRobles, Instructional Services Specialist , ext ;
Michelle Mitchell, Instructional Services Specialist, ext ;
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