English Language Learners
Contacts
About
Welcome to the English Learner Program site for the Nantucket Public Schools. Nantucket embraces its linguistically and culturally diverse English Learner (EL) population.
Nantucket Public Schools is a dynamic learning environment which engages all students to be inspired learners and responsible citizens, prepared to meet global challenges. The goal of the EL program is to provide a culturally and linguistically responsive education with the support needed to ensure equitable access to opportunities that promote accelerated language acquisition so that English Learners can access and demonstrate academic success in all courses leading to college and career readiness.
The mission of the English learner (EL) Program in the Nantucket Public Schools is to provide research-validated, systematic, explicit, and sustained language instruction to English learners, designed to develop social, instructional, and academic language within the four language domains (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) in conjunction with subject matter content (language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies).
ELPAC
Identification Process
Screening
If you have a language other than English at home, the district will screen your child to determine if your child is eligible for English language services.
Eligibility Notification
You will receive notification with your child’s English proficiency test results. If your child is found to be eligible for English language services, you will also receive program placement information.
Parent Rights
If your child is determined to be an English learner, you have the right to:
- visit an ELE program in the district;
- withdraw your child from an ELE program.
Sheltered English Immersion
Sheltered English Immersion (SEI)
The Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) model is followed in Nantucket Public Schools to ensure English Learners rapidly develop the academic language skills necessary to succeed in school.
SEI consists of two instructional components necessary for the effective instruction of ELs: Sheltered Content Instruction taught by licensed content teachers who are SEI endorsed and English As a Second Language (ESL) taught by ESL licensed teachers.
Seal of Biliteracy
Nantucket Public Schools offers the Massachusetts State Seal of Biliteracy to multilingual graduates. The Seal of Biliteracy recognizes students who are proficient in English and one or more world languages as determined through a world language assessment. The insignia is placed on the diploma and transcripts upon graduation to inform institutions of higher education and potential employers of the graduate’s multilingual skills.