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Project Needs
- Build upon practitioners' current foundation
of basic skills, knowledge and areas of expertise
- Increase teachers' knowledge and skills
through successful professional development
- Offer opportunities for practicing new
skills, strategies and techniques, provide feedback on performance
and ensure continued follow-up
- Link activities to measurable outcomes
in student performance, behavior and/or achievement.
Project Statistics
- Ninety-five percent of ELL students tested at the eleventh
grade level in the three districts scored in the Unsatisfactory
or Basic categories of the Kansas Reading Assessment in 2000
and did not meet minimum standards of performance.
- English proficient students scored an average of 81 points
while ELL students scored 64.
- The dropout rate for Hispanic ELL students is 77% (KS Advisory
on Hispanic Affairs, 2000)
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