There are some different ways to show administrators the level of rigor of your curriculum if they are not giving you anything in particular as a guideline.
I think you are correct in that we have to choose the level of rigor that is appropriate for second language learners without causing frustration, and not necessarily the reaching highest rigor levels shown in these documents.
Wendy Brownell Spanish Teacher KIPP Denver Collegiate High School
Here are couple more resources. I think it's actually good that you haven't been given an exact definition; it gives you leeway in how you explain what rigor looks like in your classroom.
There are some different ways to show administrators the level of rigor of
your curriculum if they are not giving you anything in particular as a
guideline.
Rigor-relevance matrix
http://www.vcoe.org/Portals/VcssoPortals/cici/Rigor-Relevance%20and%20Cognitive%20Rigor%20Matrix.pdf
Bloom's
https://www.icc.edu/innovation/PDFS/assessmentEvaluation/RevisedBloomsChart_bloomsverbsmatrix.pdf
Depth of knowledge
http://www.stancoe.org/SCOE/iss/common_core/overview/overview_depth_of_knowledge/dok_chart.pdf
Hess rigor matrix (Blooms and DOK combined)
http://static.pdesas.org/content/documents/M1-Slide_22_DOK_Hess_Cognitive_Rigor.pdf
At my school, we are required to use Hess. We write our exams, then align
the questions with the Hess matrix.
Here is also a Q-chart for creating questions
http://scampbellkenny.weebly.com/uploads/6/8/6/5/6865490/q-chart.pdf
I think you are correct in that we have to choose the level of rigor that
is appropriate for second language learners without causing frustration,
and not necessarily the reaching highest rigor levels shown in these
documents.
Wendy Brownell
Spanish Teacher
KIPP Denver Collegiate High School
Here are couple more resources. I think it's actually good that you haven't
been given an exact definition; it gives you leeway in how you explain what
rigor looks like in your classroom.
This is Ben Slavic's TPRS definition of rigor
http://www.benslavic.com/Posters/rigor-poster-spanish.pdf
Toni Theisen has a good handout using the rigor-relevance framework
http://tonitheisen.wikispaces.com/SWCOLT+2014
Wendy Brownell
Spanish Teacher
KIPP Denver Collegiate High School