Upcoming ELD Professional Development Opportunities:

KAGAN: Higher Order thinking Skills training has SOLD OUT! We have 11 teachers participating. There will be training on March 28th on Collaborative Structures (Fort Collins).

Peer Observations: Kemp Elementary: January 27th 9:00-4:00

EL Achieve Session 2: February 7Th 8:00-3:00 ESS Building

Issue 9: January 2015

DifferentiationOur Goal for the end of February: Engage students In DIFFERENTIATED tasks that provide high challenge and high support.Skills: Differentiate content, process, results according to students’ language proficiency level. Teach high leverage vocabulary and patterns useful in a range of contexts. Balance teacher explanation and student practice. Monitor practice and provide immediate and specific constructive feedback. Build coherently from what has been taught to the next needed skill.

ELD Highlights:

Congratulations!!! We had our first Master’s class on January 12th with 32 teachers.Bueno Center was able to receive grant to pay fully for the first class for our teachers.

Paraprofessional ELD Certification: We have 18 paraprofessionals that will be starting certification classes on Thursday January 29th

ELD Updates:The Talking Cure, article on The New Yorker shared by Dee Bench (Dupont Instructional Coach). The poorer parents are, the less they talk with their children. The mayor of Providence is trying to close the “word gap.” BY MARGARET TALBOThttp://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/12/talking-cure

A bilingual brain is prepped for more than a second languageA new study finds that bilingual people make efficient decisions on word choices, neural exercise that may protect the aging brain.https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/growth-curve/bilingual-brain-prepped-more-second-language

WIDA is sponsoring a video submissions contest for educators of English language learners (ELLs) Deadline for submissions is March 20th, 2015!WIDA would like to learn about, celebrate, and share model classroom practicesthat develop all students’ academic language and advance ELL achievement.For more information, including how to submit your application, please visit wida.us/videocontest