Principle #4: Alignment and Articulation Within and Across Systems English learners experience a coherent, articulated, and aligned set of practices and pathways across grade levels and educational segments, beginning with a strong foundation in early childhood and appropriate identification of strengths and needs, continuing through to reclassification, graduation, higher education, and career opportunities. These pathways foster the skills, language(s), literacy, and knowledge students need for college- and career-readiness and participation in a global, diverse, multilingual, twenty-first century world. Element 1 Minimal 2 Fair Alignment 3 Good Alignment 4 Excellent Connection to Alignment and and Articulation and Articulation Alignment and LCAP and Articulation Articulation other local planning A. EL educational Research-based EL Research-based EL Research-based EL Research-based EL Connections: approaches and approaches and approaches and approaches and approaches and programs are designed programs are visible programs are programs are programs are for continuity, within the school, designed for designed for designed for alignment, and but alignment and continuity, continuity, continuity, articulation across articulation between alignment, and alignment, and alignment, and grade levels and system schools may be articulation within articulation within articulation from segments beginning absent. each system and across systems early childhood with a strong foundation (preschool, within the district through higher in early childhood elementary, middle, (for example, education. Each (preschool), and and high school); alignment and level of the system continuing through however, articulation between engages in two-way elementary and articulation and elementary and articulation and secondary levels onto alignment may be middle school within alignment with the graduation, absent across a single district system that postsecondary systems within a exists, but may be precedes and education, and career district (for example, absent across follows it in order to preparation. articulation and systems outside the provide continuity alignment between district). for each student elementary and moving between middle schools systems. within a single district may be absent).
Principle #4: Alignment and Articulation Within and Across Systems English learners experience a coherent, articulated, and aligned set of practices and pathways across grade levels and educational segments, beginning with a strong foundation in early childhood and appropriate identification of strengths and needs, continuing through to reclassification, graduation, higher education, and career opportunities. These pathways foster the skills, language(s), literacy, and knowledge students need for college- and career-readiness and participation in a global, diverse, multilingual, twenty-first century world. Element 1 Minimal Alignment and Articulation 2 Fair Alignment and Articulation 3 Good Alignment and Articulation 4 Excellent Alignment and Articulation Connection to LCAP and other local planning A. EL educational approaches and programs are designed for continuity, alignment, and articulation across grade levels and system segments beginning with a strong foundation in early childhood (preschool), and continuing through elementary and secondary levels onto graduation, postsecondary education, and career preparation. Research-based EL approaches and programs are visible within the school, but alignment and articulation between schools may be absent. Research-based EL approaches and programs are designed for continuity, alignment, and articulation within each system (preschool, elementary, middle, and high school); however, articulation and alignment may be absent across systems within a district (for example, articulation and alignment between elementary and middle schools within a single district may be absent). Research-based EL approaches and programs are designed for continuity, alignment, and articulation within and across systems within the district (for example, alignment and articulation between elementary and middle school within a single district exists, but may be absent across systems outside the district). Research-based EL approaches and programs are designed for continuity, alignment, and articulation from early childhood through higher education. Each level of the system engages in two-way articulation and alignment with the system that precedes and follows it in order to provide continuity for each student moving between systems. Connections:
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