Examining Language Program Models in SFUSD Based on Recommendations from the National Academies of Education 2017 Report

This memo explains an analysis of San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD)’s expected components or principles intended to guide their language program models. This analysis compares SFUSD language program principles against recommendations and findings from the 2017 National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine report (referred henceforth as “the NAS report”) titled, Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures. Where appropriate, other literature in addition to the NAS Report supplements the analysis in an attempt to “test” whether the components have merit from a research base other than the NAS report.