MLP news

South Carolina uses ACCESS for ELLs or Alternate ACCESS. This will be given to all active MLs during the annual testing window, from January 22 - March 8, 2024.

MLP Teachers will be completing ACCESS Test training January 11th. MLP teachers and/or School Test Coordinator (STC) will share schedules in the next couple of weeks. If there are any activities that would impact students’ participation in testing, please contact your STC or MLP Teacher ASAP. Your support and flexibility is greatly appreciated during this process.

With the influx of new multilingual learners, many teachers have been asking “What can I do to support these new English learners?” This resource from ELLevation helps teachers support our new Multilingual learners upon their arrival. It is a 4 module series that you can receive 1 credit per hour of recertification credit. Please follow the process you normally follow to obtain credit.

Click the image to the right to go to the ELLevation page to login. You must login to complete the modules.

We are excited to inform you about an upcoming event that involves our Multilingual Families - the GCSD MLP Parent/Community Event. This event provides an excellent opportunity for school and community stakeholders to connect with our Spanish-speaking families, sharing valuable information and resources.

**Event Details:**

- **Date:** Wednesday, April 24, 2024 (½ day for students)

- **Time:** 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

- **Location:** GCSD Board Room, 2018 W. Church Street

**Event Highlights:**

- School and community stakeholders will be on site to share crucial information.

- Multilingual Families will have the chance to learn more about district initiatives and available resources.

- Exclusive opportunity for MLP families to register their children for the 2024-2025 school year.

- Nurses will be available to help MLP families learn what they need to know about immunizations and how to obtain them.

**Your Involvement:**

- Please be on the lookout for information to share with the Multilingual Families in your respective buildings.

- If you have any questions or are interested in volunteering for the event, contact Tara Hammett at thammett@gcsd.k12.sc.us or by phone at GHS-843-546-8516 or Cell- 843-543-4820.

Your support is invaluable in ensuring the success of this event. Let's come together as a team to create a welcoming and informative experience for our Multilingual Families.

Thank you for your dedication to the success of all students in the Georgetown County School District.

The MLP program at Georgetown Middle School has gone mobile! Thanks to a partnership and grant from Eileen Fleming- Potonay and the S.C. Office of Commerce and Workforce Development, Ms. Williams has been able to bring the classroom alive as our students have traveled to a variety of local Hispanic-owned businesses with bilingual tours to meet student's language needs. Students began their research on college, careers, the workforce and the military in class and several businesses agreed to host them, provide onsite work experience shadowing and future opportunities to network together. Georgetown High School Career Center, Carolina Foods, El Cerro, Jarrito's, Mcleod Hospital, Little River and Embroidery Solutions LLC invited the group of twenty students to their worksites and were all wonderful hosts to our MLP students. This has been an excellent opportunity for students to see how they can work in a variety of careers and industries that are local to us at every level. Students look forward to continued research and figuring out how they can find their niche in the community.

Accommodations:

• provide access to grade-level curriculum,

• alter the environment, not the curriculum,

• do not change the learning outcomes,

• happen in the content-area classroom, and

• should not impact grading, though how learning is assessed may change.