The ESOL Collaborative
a consortium of ESOL providers in the Greater Portland area
The City of Portland’s ESOL Collaborative brings together a consortium of ESOL service providers in the Greater Portland area to address the needs of Portland’s multilingual population.
The ESOL Collaborative comes together regularly to foster a multidimensional and intersectional approach to English language access, identifying gaps in access, reducing service duplication and coordinating efforts to improve individual and collective learning results. Additionally, the ESOL Collaborative strengthens inter-organizational communication and resource sharing to better serve Portland’s multilingual communities.
Goals of the Collaborative
To identify existing gaps in service delivery and create a common list of services.
To commit to adapt our service delivery models to fill identified gaps and maximize our collective results.
To coordinate our referral processes by: Sharing our real time offerings in a common platform, systematically notifying each other when referrals go out and when referrals are received, and offering the ability to track referral outcomes to improve individual and collective results
To develop procedures and protocols to track individual learning results across programs to capitalize on what is producing results and amend where necessary, while safeguarding to the highest standard students’ confidentiality.