DRC Navigate 5.1 — LPAC Builder

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Texas Edition

Houston ISD · Multilingual Programs Department

LPAC Builder

Dashboard level · Dashboards Pages … (47)

Wednesday, September 23

LANGUAGE

MRMarisol Reyes

Where do you want to go today?

Everything DRC Navigate offers your district, in one place. Pick where you need to work today.

On this page

Today on your caseload

2 identification clocks and 1 parent notice · the 30-day notice is due Sep 26.

LPAC Builder — Where Do You Want to Start, Marisol Reyes?

Beginning of the Year (BOY)

Newly Enrolled Identification and Placement

LPACs to Complete

2 Student LPACs Need Attention▶0 Student LPACs Completed

Requirement: Complete the necessary emergent bilingual student identification assessment (PreLAS or LAS Links) and convene the LPAC to determine identification of emergent bilingual students and to recommend program placement within four calendar weeks of a student’s initial enrollment in a Texas public school.

PreLAS = PreK3, PreK4, Kindergarten
LAS Links = Grades 1 -12
Go to www.LASLinks.com/Texas for more guidance regarding the TEA required assessments for the purpose of the identification of emergent bilingual students.

Every student in this step+

Beginning of the Year (BOY)

Returning Students Parental Notification

Notifications to Complete

1 Student’s LPAC Needs Attention▶2 Students’ LPACs Completed

Requirement: Emergent bilingual student reclassification and parental notification of progress. Complete within the first 30 calendar days of the current school year.

Every student in this step+

Middle of the Year (MOY)

Student Assessment Decision-Making

Decisions to Make

4 Student’s LPACs Needs Attention▶1 Student’s LPAC Completed

Requirement: Prior to assessments (STAAR, TELPAS), determine participation and designated support decisions for all emergent bilingual students.

Every student in this step+

End of the Year (EOY)

Reclassification/Program Exit Review & Process

Student Portfolio Reviews and Recommendations to Conduct

4 Students’ LPACs Need Attention▶1 Student’s LPAC Completed

Requirement: Conduct review of all emergent bilingual students to determine recommendations for reclassification.

Every student in this step+

6Teacher / caseload

LPAC · Level 6 of 7 · Teacher / caseload dashboard

AreaStudents

LPAC cycles ☰ Menu ⛨ 3 authorities · color key

LPAC /

What Sophia suggests

3District

LPAC

LPAC · Level 3 of 7 · District dashboard

The four LPAC cycles with every student listed by name and days on the state clock.

AreaStudents

LPAC cycles ☰ Menu ⛨ 4 authorities · color key

On this page

Today on the district queue

6 critical items · 30-day notices are due Sep 26.

Beginning of the Year (BOY)

Newly Enrolled Identification and Placement

of 7 open · district

4 more open at other campuses▶Herrera Elementary is your own caseload

PreLAS = PreK3, PreK4, Kindergarten
LAS Links = Grades 1 -12
Go to www.LASLinks.com/Texas for more guidance regarding the TEA required assessments for the purpose of the identification of emergent bilingual students.

Every campus in this step+

Herrera Elementary (NES) — your caseload
Marshall Middle (NES)
Wilcrest Early Childhood Center
Sharpstown International

Beginning of the Year (BOY)

Returning Students Parental Notification

of 8 open · district

3 more open at other campuses▶Herrera Elementary is your own caseload

Requirement: Emergent bilingual student reclassification and parental notification of progress. Complete within the first 30 calendar days of the current school year.

Every campus in this step+

Herrera Elementary (NES) — your caseload
Marshall Middle (NES)
Wilcrest Early Childhood Center
Sharpstown International

Middle of the Year (MOY)

Student Assessment Decision-Making

of 15 open · district

7 more open at other campuses▶Herrera Elementary is your own caseload

Requirement: Prior to assessments (STAAR, TELPAS), determine participation and designated support decisions for all emergent bilingual students.

Every campus in this step+

Herrera Elementary (NES) — your caseload
Marshall Middle (NES)
Wilcrest Early Childhood Center
Sharpstown International

End of the Year (EOY)

Reclassification/Program Exit Review & Process

of 15 open · district

5 more open at other campuses▶Herrera Elementary is your own caseload

Requirement: Conduct review of all emergent bilingual students to determine recommendations for reclassification.

Every campus in this step+

Herrera Elementary (NES) — your caseload
Marshall Middle (NES)
Wilcrest Early Childhood Center
Sharpstown International

Home languages in this group

Spanish816

Vietnamese118

Arabic92

Mandarin61

French48

Other69

1,204 EB students district-wide · every family hears from you in their language.

Every step the LPAC has to complete for this student, in order. Check a step to record it; the meter and the LPAC Builder tile update.

At a glance — tap a tile, or ▾ for details

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Daily update

Tags & trace — every tag, where it comes from, what it fills, and the rule

LPAC record

LPAC Forms Information · initial review

Nina’s field set (LPAC worksheet, initial info needed). Pulled from the LEA SIS and the PreLAS / LAS Links daily student data file; years in US/TX schools and the identification decision are calculated.

LAS Links · learning DNA

Domain by domain, from the most recent administration.

Family communication

Professional dashboards

Elena Ortiz

Principal

Herrera Elementary (NES) · Principal

LocationHerrera Elementary (NES) · Houston, TX

DepartmentHerrera Elementary (NES) · LPAC Committee

ESC regionESC 4 (Houston)

Servescampus of 570 students

CredentialsTexas Principal certificate · Bilingual (Spanish) & ESL supplemental · TEA LPAC training verified Aug 18, 2026 · oath on file · LPAC Compliance Certificate in progress

E-mailelena.ortiz@houstonisd.org

Phone(713) 556-———— · interpreter line ext. 4-LANG

Office hoursMon–Fri 7:30–4:30 · LPAC days Tue/Thu

LanguagesEnglish · Spanish (native) · working Portuguese

Level 5 · CampusHouston ISD · Multilingual Programs

Leadership snapshot

Leadership snapshot · what Houston ISD leadership needs to know

Caseload7 EB students · 4 home languages · Herrera Elementary

Compliance0 past due · 2 identification clocks open · 1 parent notice due Sep 26

AssessmentTELPAS spring window · 4 participation decisions pending

Reclassification4 portfolio reviews pending at EOY · 1 reclassified · 2 students in Year-1 monitoring

TrainingLPAC members trained and oath on file: 3 of 3

FundingBEA allotment tied to PEIMS coding accuracy · 0 open coding flags

Add-on — not yet licensed

Family and Caregivers Companion

Every family hears from you in their language. Notices are drafted in the home language and reviewed by the educator before anything is sent; families reply in their language and you read it in yours.

Notices by family

Drafted from the LPAC record; nothing goes out without your review.

Parent portal · what a family sees

The Reyes family, in Spanish:

Portal para padres · Sofía ReyesPrimaria Herrera · Grado 5

Aviso de progreso del estudianteSofía continúa en el programa de ESL. Su comité LPAC revisó su progreso en escucha, habla, lectura y escritura. Por favor, confirme que recibió este aviso.

Respuesta de la familiaGracias. ¿Podemos reunirnos para hablar sobre su lectura?

Traducido para usted“Thank you. Can we meet to talk about her reading?”

Languages on this caseload · DRC letters available

Spanish · Vietnamese · Igbo · Arabic on this caseload. DRC’s LAS Links Student Report Explanation ships in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Somali, Chinese (Simplified Mandarin), Vietnamese, Haitian, French, Polish, Albanian and Arabic; PreLAS home letters in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Haitian, Chinese (Simplified and Cantonese), Korean, Russian, Polish, Somali, Tagalog, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Pashto, Telugu and Albanian. Igbo is machine-translated and flagged for review.

Add-on — not yet licensed

LOTE Credit

Award high school credit for Languages Other Than English (LOTE) through credit‐by‐exam — no seat time required, evaluated straight from the LAS Links / LPAC data already on file for a student’s home language.

Who qualifies on this caseload

Texas awards LOTE credit by exam to secondary students (grade 6 and up) who can demonstrate proficiency in a language other than English — most often a student’s own home language. Every student is screened automatically; only grade and a qualifying home language are required to flag eligibility.

Request the exam

Generates the credit‐by‐exam request, the parent notice in the home language, and routes the score straight into the student’s transcript once it returns.

🎓 Sample certificate Draft · awaiting official score

Houston Independent School District

Certificate of Credit

Languages Other Than English

This certifies that

Daniel Okafor

has demonstrated proficiency in Igbo through district-approved local assessment with a score of 94% and is hereby awarded 2 high school credits in Languages Other Than English, Levels I and II, under Texas Education Code §28.023 and 19 TAC §74.24, applicable toward the Foundation High School Program.

Marcus Bell

Dr. Marcus BellPrincipal, Marshall Middle School (NES)

Maria Alvarez

Maria AlvarezDirector, Emergent Bilingual Programs

Samuel Whitaker

Dr. Samuel WhitakerSuperintendent of Schools, Houston ISD

How LOTE credit works

Governed by 19 TAC §74.24 (Credit by Examination) and TEA’s LOTE credit‐by‐exam guidance.

Available for languages the district does not otherwise offer as a course, most commonly a student’s home language
Exam covers listening, speaking, reading and writing — a single passing score (usually 90) earns credit; state law also allows a lower band (70–89) to earn credit without a grade on transcript, per TEA options
No prior enrollment in the course is required; the exam may be administered at any point recommended by the LPAC or counselor
Credit posts directly to the transcript and can count toward the Foundation High School Program’s language requirement

Data this pulls from

No new data entry — LOTE eligibility is derived entirely from records the LPAC Builder already keeps: grade level (SIS), home language (Home Language Survey), and current proficiency (LAS Links / LAS Links Español, where administered).

Add-on — not yet licensed

Growth & Monitoring

TELPAS growth year by year, two years of post-exit monitoring, and forecasting that flags long-term EL risk before a student becomes one.

TELPAS composite, year by year

Every student on the caseload; each bar is a spring administration (Beginning → Intermediate → Advanced → Advanced High).

Post-exit monitoring

Reclassified students stay on the LPAC's list for two years.

Amira HaddadReclassified · Year 1 monitoringOn track

Jorge PeñaReclassified 2025 · Year 2 monitoringOn track

Mai TranReclassified 2025 · Year 2 monitoringReading dip — review

Long-term EL forecast

Students projected to reach grade 6 without reclassifying at the current pace of growth.

Mateo AlvarezGrade 3 · reading Level 1 two years runningHigh risk

Sofía ReyesGrade 5 · writing plateauWatch

Daniel OkaforGrade 7 · on pace to reclassifyLow risk

PreLAS Companion

PreK3 · PreK4 · Kindergarten

Instructional supports built from PreLAS English and Spanish results, so every teacher gets HQIM-aligned next steps for each child — identification data first, then ongoing progress monitoring.

Lin NguyenPreK4 · Ms. PatelPreLAS oral: Level 2

Amira HaddadKindergarten · Mr. SolisPreLAS oral: Level 3

Oral language routines

Sentence frames, picture-supported vocabulary, and daily talk moves matched to each PreLAS level.

Family activities

Home-language activities sent to families in Spanish or English with one tap.

Progress check

Quick monthly oral checks that feed the MOY and EOY LPAC tiles automatically.

LAS Links Companion

Grades 1–12 · Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing

Every LAS Links score becomes teacher action: level-to-strategy recommendations, scaffolds for HQIM lessons, and evidence that flows straight into the LPAC packet.

Mateo AlvarezGrade 3PL 2 Early Intermediate · Reading PL 1

Sofía ReyesGrade 5PL 3 Intermediate · Writing PL 2

Daniel OkaforGrade 7PL 4 Proficient · Speaking PL 4

Score interpretation

Drafted, plain-language interpretation of each domain score for the committee and the family.

Bluebonnet scaffolds

TELPAS-level differentiation inside the lesson components districts already use.

Quick Assess

Check one domain, a full four-domain snapshot, or sweep a whole class in minutes.

Relative Language Proficiency

Amy’s ID and PM matrices: English × Spanish, PL 1–5, every student placed in a cell; strand scores for progress monitoring.

Roadmap

DRC Navigate roadmap

The four phases agreed with DRC · hover a phase for scope, pricing and status.

Phase 1

Foundation

Hover for detail

Phase 1 · Foundation

Base · $14.50 per enrolled EB child per year

LPAC compliance (BOY, MOY, EOY) · LAS Links / PreLAS progress monitoring · Relative Language Proficiency (RLP) matrices for identification and progress monitoring · instructional strategies basics · forms, notices and packets.

92% — this prototype

Phase 2

Instruction

Hover for detail

Phase 2 · Instruction

Instruction add-on · $3

Personalized Language Learning Plans, class-level plans, content and language objectives, EB Companion, growth targets, Family Companion.

64% — Companions and Family Companion in preview

Phase 3

Initiatives

Hover for detail

Phase 3 · Initiatives

Initiatives add-ons · $3 each

LOTE credit, Spanish course placement and CBE, Teacher Incentive Allotment, TELPAS indicator, program evaluation (§89.1265), early-learner summer school (§89.1250), school improvement, gifted and talented, dually identified, Seal of Biliteracy, Growth & Monitoring.

22% — analyses below, Growth & Monitoring preview

Phase 4

National Expansion

Hover for detail

Phase 4 · National Expansion

Additional states

Beyond Texas — Connecticut LAS Links, California PreLAS, WIDA ACCESS and ELPA21 ingestion, achievement-data mapping; state-rules layer and per-edition branding.

5% — licensing model on the Home page

DRC Navigate · Texas Edition

Where the build stands against the four phases agreed with DRC.

Foundation — 92%

Instruction — 64%

Initiatives — 22%

National expansion — 5%

October 31, 2026

All currently defined development complete, coded, internally tested, and ready for unrestricted end-to-end testing.

January 4, 2027

Full commercialization readiness, including any DRC-requested additions.

What matters most right now· six findings that connect helping children with funding strategy–

Risk to children

2 students on the identification clock right now

On this caseload the identification clock is driven almost entirely by how often the LPAC meets — not by staffing or demographics. Mateo Alvarez (13 days) and Lin Nguyen (19 days).

Reclassification

Long-term EL risk is rising statewide

Houston-area cohorts not reclassified by grade 6 rose from 41% to 67% between the 2011–12 and 2016–17 first-grade cohorts (Kinder Institute, 2024). This app’s cycle tracking is built to flag exactly that pattern.

Assessment design

TELPAS speaking pass rate: 50% → 7.6%

The 2018 change to a computer-administered oral test dropped the statewide pass rate by more than 40 points in one year (TEA data via Kinder Institute). It is the single most-cited barrier to timely reclassification.

Program access

Only 22% of EB students are in dual language

TEA’s own research links dual-language immersion to the strongest outcomes, yet most EB students statewide are in other program models (IDRA, 2025) — a capacity and bilingual-teacher-supply problem, not a compliance one.

Funding at stake

$103 per point of coding error

The same records that drive the clocks above also drive the money: each 1-point shift in PEIMS miscoding on EB/dyslexia counts moves roughly this much in bilingual and dyslexia allotments across your caseload. Accuracy, not enrollment, is the lever.

Unbilled billing

Medicaid claims held for documentation

In this district’s modeled SHARS queue, 6 of 9 claims are held — missing consent, credentials, or an IEP match — not because the service was not provided.

All Compliance

Forms, notices and packets· tap + to open+

A Form Generator built on the TEA forms in DRC’s LPAC Forms 2026–2027 library (Nina) and DRC’s parent letters (Amy) — filled in for one student or a whole caseload and delivered as PDF or ZIP. Every entry cites its source and its trigger.

LPAC committee operations

LPAC membership roster · LPAC parent membership request letter · confidentiality statement · meeting minutes form.

Identification & initial review

Home Language Survey (TEA state letter, all languages, 08-2023) · LPAC initial review form 2025 · LPAC EB checklist.

Assessment decisions

STAAR participation and language, designated supports, TELPAS participation (MOY guidance).

Annual review, reclassification & monitoring

LPAC annual review form 2025 · monitoring of reclassified students form 2025 · Parent Notification of Student Progress.

Parent letters · PreLAS and LAS Links

LAS Links Student Report Explanation and PreLAS home letters in 20 languages (DRC, 2026).

Whole-caseload packet

Everything due this month for every student, class, school or district level, as PDF or ZIP.

Legislative and legal analysis· tap + to open+

Every obligation is cited to its source. These are the timelines and authorities this platform watches for you.

TEC §29.063 — Language Proficiency Assessment CommitteesMembership, training and oath, decisions on identification, placement, assessment and reclassification.

19 TAC Chapter 89, Subchapter BB — §89.1220 and §89.1225Identification and LPAC placement recommendation within four calendar weeks of initial enrollment; Parent Notification on Student Progress within the first 30 calendar days of the school year; annual review; reclassification criteria; two years of monitoring after exit.

Castañeda v. Pickard (5th Cir. 1981)Program design grounded in sound theory, resources and staffing to implement it, and evidence of results.

EEOA §1703(f)Obligation to take appropriate action to overcome language barriers, tracked alongside the students it affects.

ESSA Title IIIEnglish learner program obligations kept in the same action queue.

TEA July 16, 2026 guidanceChanges to identification and reclassification practices, reflected in the BOY and EOY tiles.

Texas LPAC resources · from DRC’s library

TEA’s “The Process for Serving Emergent Bilingual Students” (ESC-20) · TEA LPAC website (txel.org/LPAC) · TEA video: LPAC Process (times of interest 23:33–36:51 and 43:31–46:29) · TEA LPAC Hub FAQ (txel.org/faqhub/lpac) · TEA BOY, MOY and EOY LPAC guidance (2025–26) · TEA EB flowchart (English) · TEA LPAC forms 2026–27. Sophia cites these when you ask.

Every clock on one page

Statutory timelines computed from the student record.

DRC Navigate · Phase 1 LPAC compliance prototype 5.0 · all student data shown is fictitious demo data Connected with LAS Links · DRC

📖 Guide me

Sophia, Your Expert DRC Companion

DRC Navigate Knowledge Base · expert in LAS Links, PreLAS, TELPAS, ELPS, EB/ESL research and program models · your caseload · every workflow

Hello Ms. Reyes, how can I assist you today?Sophia, Your Expert DRC Companion

What’s next for me?What is critical today?Which students still need a progress notice?

Sign in

Where do you want to go today?

LPAC Builder — Where Do You Want to Start, Marisol Reyes?

What Sophia suggests

LPAC

At a glance — tap a tile, or ▾ for details

LPAC record

LPAC Forms Information · initial review

LAS Links · learning DNA

Family communication

Elena Ortiz

Leadership snapshot

Family and Caregivers Companion

Notices by family

Parent portal · what a family sees

Languages on this caseload · DRC letters available

LOTE Credit

Who qualifies on this caseload

Request the exam

🎓 Sample certificate Draft · awaiting official score

How LOTE credit works

Data this pulls from

Growth & Monitoring

TELPAS composite, year by year

Post-exit monitoring

Long-term EL forecast

PreLAS Companion

PreK3 · PreK4 · Kindergarten

Oral language routines

Family activities

Progress check

LAS Links Companion

Grades 1–12 · Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing

Score interpretation

Bluebonnet scaffolds

Quick Assess

Relative Language Proficiency

Roadmap

DRC Navigate roadmap

Foundation

Instruction

Initiatives

National Expansion

DRC Navigate · Texas Edition

October 31, 2026

January 4, 2027

2 students on the identification clock right now

Long-term EL risk is rising statewide

TELPAS speaking pass rate: 50% → 7.6%

Only 22% of EB students are in dual language

$103 per point of coding error

Medicaid claims held for documentation

All Compliance

Texas LPAC resources · from DRC’s library

Every clock on one page