Joseph asks how DOE safeguards Portrait assessments for multilingual learners and students with disabilities
Joseph asks what safeguards exist for multilingual learners and students with disabilities, noting they often account for graduation declines. Giunta says multiple measures will help these students demonstrate knowledge in new ways and that the DIALL team is included in planning professional learning.
And students, multilingual learners and students with disabilities usually statewide account for the decline in graduation.
What safeguards do you have in place to make sure that local portrait assessments are created for these students?
I mean, at its core, this opportunity to move away from a single measurement for graduation into multiple measurements is a place that is going to really help our students with disabilities and multilingual learners show
and demonstrate their knowledge in new and exciting ways that will honor their knowledge and the way that they can express it.
To Katie's point, have our dial colleagues on the team with us.
And as we plan professional learning with them, just like with reads and solves, the dial team is with us, making sure that the lens of the students that they support are very well represented in how we move forward.
And I did want to mention that in addition to the structures that we set up, the professional learning that Dr.
Chang talked about and some of the early implementation as it relates to personal finance,
there is a lot of information widely available on the state's website about this that parents can access, but we are currently getting ready to pull it over to our website in addition to the work and the values that New York City Public Schools has
and move into a more New York City engagement around this topic.
Last week's meeting with the state and this week's...
hearing is certainly helping catapult that aligned timeline to make this really a robust conversation across our city.