1. Doris Correll, M.Ed. Peggy Lee, M.Ed Patricia Viera, M.Ed.
Center for
Language Assessment
(CLA)
Doris Correll, M.Ed.
Coordinator of English
Acquisition Program
Peggy Lee, M.Ed
ESOL Instructional Coach
Patricia Viera, M.Ed.
ESOL District Evaluator
Linda Lopez, BA
Secretary/Notary
Mariangeli Vazquez
Secretary

2. Center for Language
Assessment (CLA)
At registration, every student who enters the Bethlehem Area School District is given a home language survey to determine student’s home language. If a language other than English is noted, then the student is sent to CLA and registers at the Center for Language Assessment (CLA).

3. CLA Duties & Responsibilities
•Register students in the BASD system.
•Determine English proficiency level
•Secure and review prior school records
•Conduct parent interviews
•Recommend appropriate placement
•Monitor students’ progress and program
•Refer families to local agencies
•Receive testing referrals for students having difficulties in learning English.

4. ESOL PROGRAM
At CLA, the student is assessed using multiple measures to determine language proficiency
and ability level in native language.
If the student is identified as an English Language Learner, ESOL services are provided.
Elementary school age students all remain
in their home schools.
At the Middle school;
Beginner level students attend Broughal
Intermediate and Advanced students attend
Broughal, Northeast, or East Hills.
All eligible high school students attend Liberty High School.

5. Procedures for Registration
Initial registration by appointment includes student data, family information, and prior schooling
Affidavits are completed and forwarded to Child Accounting Office
Release of Record forms are signed
Bus passes are given to the family if the Transportation Grid so indicates
Orientation to the BASD is provided via video, Standards information, Code of Conduct

6. Assessments
The CLA evaluation results include: oral proficiency scores, reading and comprehension levels, math score, writing sample, and additional comments. Results are places in a red folder.
Students are placed into beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels based on oral proficiency, reading and writing skills.
Exit is determined by successful performance in school and other multiple assessment measures.
Teachers of English acquisition report twice a year on each student’s stages of oral language, reading and writing.
Staff at each school decides when the student is ready to move up to the Intermediate, Advanced, or to Exit from the English Acquisition Program.
The CLA Office monitors and records student progress in the CLA database that is maintained internally.

7. Support Programs for
ESOL Students
Reading Recovery®
First grade students who struggle to learn to read in English may be served by the Reading Recovery program, in which a specially trained teacher works one on one with each student for 30 minutes daily for a period of 20 weeks in first grade.
Most of these Reading Recovery students go on to read at levels average or better by the end of first grade. Most are successful without further reading support services.

8. Intensive Summer programs
Support Programs for
ESOL Students
Intensive Summer programs
Students at the beginning level of English language learning may be eligible for a four-week summer program designed to improve oral language, reading and writing.
An MI Integrated Approach is utilized focused around a theme.

9. School 2 Work Program
in collaboration with St. Luke’s Hospital:
English Acquisition students at Liberty High school may apply for a school-to-work program in which they learn English and science concepts through a health care curriculum and spend two afternoons each week working with mentors at St. Luke’s Hospital.

10. CLA Newsletter to Parents
The CLA newsletter is published in English and Spanish with program updates, student work, names and schools of all teachers in the English Acquisition program and news of school events.
•CLA Newsletter is published for parents twice a year