Illinois Administrative Code › Title 23 - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL RESOURCES › Part 680 - STATE SEAL OF BILITERACY › Section 680.20 - State Seal of Biliteracy

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In accordance with Section 2-3.159 of the School Code, a school
				district or nonpublic school may establish a program
to recognize
				public and nonpublic high school graduates who have attained a high level of
				proficiency in one or more languages in addition to English
, by
				designating on a student's transcript and high school diploma the student's
				receipt of the State Seal of Biliteracy, provided that all the conditions of
				this Section are met.
a) World
			 Language Proficiency
A school district or nonpublic school may award the State Seal
				to any high school graduate
who attains a high level of proficiency,
				sufficient for meaningful use in college and a career
(Section 2-3.159
				of the Code), in a language other than English, as evidenced by attainment of a
				"intermediate high" composite score, or an "intermediate high" score in each of
				the domains when no composite score is provided, or its equivalent, on a
				standardized assessment that addresses the four domains of speaking, writing,
				listening, and reading in the targeted world language. Proficiency may be shown
				using one of the methods outlined in this subsection.
1) Assessment Method
A) For purposes of using an assessment to
			 determine proficiency:
i) "Intermediate high"
			 is defined in the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
			 Proficiency Guidelines 2012, published by ACTFL, 1001 North Fairfax Street,
			 Suite 200, Alexandria VA 22314 and available at
https://www.actfl.org/educator-resources/actfl-proficiency-guidelines
.
			 (No later amendments to or editions of these guidelines are incorporated.)
			 Measurement may assess tasks across the three modes of communication as defined
			 by the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages available at
https://www.isbe.net/Documents/World-Languages-Standards.pdf
.
ii) For students learning American Sign
			 Language as a heritage or first language, "intermediate high" is equivalent to
			 meeting progress indicators for grade 12 set forth in the Standards for
			 Learning American Sign Language (2014), published by the American Sign Language
			 Teachers Association, P.O. Box 38, Clinton WA 98236 and available at
https://aslta.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/National_ASL_Standards.pdf
.
			 (No later amendments to or editions of these guidelines are
			 incorporated.)
iii) For students
			 learning American Sign Language as a world language, "intermediate high" is
			 defined in the Communication Proficiency Performance Indicators in the Fourth
			 Edition World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages published by the
			 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 1001 North Fairfax
			 Street, Suite 200, Alexandria VA 22314 and available at
https://www.isbe.net/Documents/World-Languages-Standards.pdf
.
			 (No later amendments to or editions of these guidelines are
			 incorporated).
iv) "Standardized
			 assessment" is one that is available for use on a statewide or national basis
			 and meets generally accepted standards of fairness, validity, and reliability
			 as stated in "Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing" (2013),
			 published by the American Educational Research Association, 1430 K Street,
			 N.W., Suite 1200, Washington DC 20005. (No later amendments to or editions of
			 these standards are incorporated.)
v) For students pursuing a State Seal in
			 American Sign Language or Latin, the standardized assessment must consist of
			 the language domains that appropriately characterize communication in that
			 language.