The DESE is now part of the WIDA Consortium. WIDA stands for World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment. It is an organization that has developed standards and assessments for our ELL students. These standards are based on the TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) standards and are aligned with the Common Core Standards. Along with assessing our ELL students, the WIDA provides very descriptive information as to what the classroom teacher can expect from their EL students in the form of Can Do Descriptors at each grade level. Our EL students come from many different cultures. Some of these are Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, and Indian. Below are links that can provide you with more information about these cultures:
North Andover’s ELE Population is 97 students and is broken down into the following languages:
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