About

The School District of La Crosse provides English Language Learner (ELL) services for ELL students from Pre-Kindergarten through high school.  The vast majority of these ELL students are Hmong from Laos, Thailand, and the U.S. However, ELL’s representing a number of other language groups are served as well. Some of these languages include Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, Urdu, Chinese, French, Japanese, Bulgarian, Laotian, and Arabic.  This representation often shifts from year to year.

Currently, we are serving 346 EL students across the District.

Program/Course Offerings

The district’s EL program is a “Content-Based EL” program.  This model supports “Push In,” and “Intervention” approaches to meeting EL student needs.  The EL program serves students in all district elementary, middle, and high school buildings.

Mainstream EL Program

• Direct Support Programs in all schools
• Serving 414 students

         283 El.

         71 MS

        60 HS students

• 15 active second language groups served: Hmong, Spanish, Mandarin, Laotian, Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Russian, Telugu (Indian), Thai, Urdu (Pakistan), Albanian, Romanian, Hindi (Indian), Khmer (Cambodia), Amharic (Ethiopia)

• Supported by 13 ELL Teachers and 14 Teacher Assistants

EL Population Analysis 2018

EL Population Trend Graph

Aimee Zabrowski
Director of Student Services
608-789-7655
azabrows@lacrossesd.org

Olga Dedkova
EL Coordinator
608-789-5871
odedkova@lacrossesd.org

Helpful Links & Resources

WIDA: ACCESS Test Administration and EL Guidance

https://www.wida.us

School District of La Crosse EL Best Practices Handbook

EL Handbook 2015

Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol: Tools for the Classroom

http://siop.pearson.com/about-siop/

http://www.tolerance.org/supplement/sheltered-instruction-observation-protocol-siop

ELL Science Adventures

ELL Science Adventures Conference