National Association of English Learner Program Administrators

Standards, Assessment, and Policy Committee Resources

Answers to NAELPA's Questions about English Language Proficiency Standards and Assessment Alignment

The NAELPA Standards, Assessment, and Policy Committee recently asked the President of NAELPA to submit five questions related to the alignment of English language proficiency standards and assessments to the U.S. Department of Education (USED). The USED responded to those five questions, whose answers are keyed to the 2018 document A State's Guide to the U.S. Department of Education's Assessment Peer Review Process. A copy of the letter from USED to NAELPA is also available.

The Standards, Assessment, and Policy Committee reviews publications and other available content in order to share information that could be valuable and useful for educators of multilingual learners. The follow list of publications are ones that the Standards, Assessment, and Policy Committee would like to share.


U.S. Department of Education - Office of English Language Acquisition: National Bilingual Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month "Social Media Toolkit"

U.S. Department of Education - Office of English Language Acquisition: National Bilingual Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month "Social Media Toolkit"

New America - Assessing English Learners During Remote Learning

New America - A Federal Policy Agenda for English Learner Education

Education Week - English-Learners May Need More Support This Fall. But That Doesn't Mean They're Behind



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NAELPA Statement on Assets-Based Terminology

It is important to NAELPA to use asset-based terminology when referring to our work and the population of students we serve. We acknowledge that the current name of this organization, The National Association of English Learner Program Administrators (NAELPA), uses English Learner (EL), which is considered deficit based. With current federal legislation using English Learners (ELs) to identify this population the NAELPA board will continue with this usage for clarity purposes in the short term. However, NAELPA will take an active role in advocating for the wider use of assets-based nomenclature and helping to make it more standardized in our field and beyond.

For a more detailed description, check out the full NAELPA Asset-Based Terminology statement.