ELL Learning Consortium 2012

Hey all,

I hope to see many of you next week for the ELL Learning Consortium 2012 Kick-Off. We will spend the afternoon brainstorming session topics for the coming year (and anything else you need!).

Also (in order to better accommodate everyone’s schedules), we will be offering both a morning and an afternoon session, each of which will have the same focus every month.  The morning session will be from 9AM to 12PM-ish and the afternoon session will be from 1PM to 4PM-ish.

The ELL Consortium Kick-Off is Friday, September 28 from 1PM-3PM!

The remaining dates are:

October 26

November 30

December 19

January 25

February 27

March 28

April 24

May 16

Hope to see you soon,

Amy & Darryl

Friday May 11, 2011 ELL Consortium Topic: ACCESS Score Interpretation

Lisa McCarty and Darryl Douglas will be sharing information learned from a WIDA training in Jefferson City during the April meeting of the MELL Instructional Specialists from across the state.

Also come prepared to share ideas on Curriculum. What are you doing? Is it a set curriculum or program?  How might what you're doing be shared/molded for another school? Hopefully these questions can spur some great conversation.

If you haven't met him yet or didn't know there was the new Instructional Specialist working with Amy, it will be a good time to meet Darryl.

See you on Friday!!

October Meeting
Friday, October 28, 2011

ELL Essentials

During our October meeting, Amy shared a presentation entitled ELL 101: What You Need Your Colleagues to Know. She walked participants through each section of the presentation which are outlined below.

• Laws & Court Rulings
• Demographics
• Culture
• Language Acquisition
• Sheltered Instruction Models
• ESL Program Models
• Parent Engagement
• Instructional Strategies
• Assessment
• Planning

Each of the sections include activities designed to engage participants with the content or encourage reflective conversations.