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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2014/07/principal_reports_to_build_bet.html

Principal Surveys to Help Build Better ELL Policy
By Sarah D. Sparks
July 1, 2014

Advocates and researchers have launched a new tool to help policymakers better analyze and report the needs of shifting English-learner populations at schools from year to year.

The English Language Learner Program Survey for Principals, created by the English Language Learners Alliance and the Regional Education Laboratory Northeast & Islands at the Education Development Corp., collects data on how schools serve English learners in an array of areas, including:

 Whether and how staff monitor ELL-student progress;
 Teachers' and principals' beliefs about English learners, such as cultural differences or language proficiency and learning disabilities;
 How English-language teachers are evaluated; and
 Types of professional development around English learners that principals have taken or would like to have.

Learn more about and access the survey at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2014/07/principal_reports_to_build_bet.html