There have been some changes to the manner in which students will be exited from the Cobb ESOL Program this year. Read all information below carefully and contact your District ESOL Lead or Margaret McKenzie should you have questions. Keep in mind that EVERY exit is a recommended exit and must be reviewed and approved by District ESOL personnel. (Greg Clark, Damaris Cortes, Catherine Porch or Margaret McKenzie)
ESOL Program Exit Criteria: (Both criteria below must be met)
1. Student MUST score a 5.0 or greater on Tier C of the ACCESS 2011. All domains of language must be carefully reviewed in order to determine that the student will be successful next year without direct ESOL support services. The scores in all four Language Domains: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing should be carefully reviewed.
2. Student MUST demonstrate a passing score on state assessments in reading or ELA. This will depend upon the current grade level of the student and the state assessments completed this year.
ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL
For elementary and middle school that test is the CRCT and the student must have a "MEETS" or EXCEEDS" (800+) on the Reading portion of the CRCT. Since the CRCT was NOT administered in grades 1 and 2, the second indicator this year will be a 4.7 or higher on the LITERACY score on the ACCESS for these grade levels.
HIGH SCHOOL
For high school, a passing scores must be achieved on the GHSGT in Writing and Language Arts. If the student is a 9th or 10th grader, then a passing score of 70 on the EOCT in 9th or American Lit may be used. If an EOCT grade from this school year is not available as the second indicator, then a 4.7 or higher on the LITERACY score on the ACCESS for these grade levels may be used.
KINDERGARTEN
It is impossible to deem Kindergarteners "proficient" in English until they are further along in the language acquisition process. Many issues of language acquisition only begin to appear when the child is deeper in the reading process. For this reason, we do not recommend students in Kindergarten be exited from ESOL Program services.
Click here to download the form for ESOL Program Exit based on Test Scores only:
Download ESOL-Exit-FORM Cobb 2012
All Exits from the Cobb ESOL Program are pending until the forms are reviewed, approved and signed by District ESOL personnel. Do NOT send home parent letters indicating that a student has been exited from ESOL until the exit forms have been reviewed and approved by district ESOL staff.
All ESOL Program Exit forms must be copied and placed in the following locations:
Original: placed in the Green ESOL Folder housed in the student's permanent file
Copy: maintained by Local Lead ESOL teacher
Copy: on file at the IWC
Copies will be made at the exit location and District ESOL Staff will collect all Exit Forms to turn into the IWC. No Exit paperwork will need to be sent to the IWC.