Empathy, resilience, and the courage to ask difficult (reflective) questions. Listening effectively. Placing students at the center. Meeting your colleagues where they are in their learning and teaching journeys. #leadership #empathy #wellbeing Looking forward to it 😇

.@ATESOLnsw An article I wrote for .@SBS to enlighten teachers why the use of home languages in the classroom is crucial, multilingualism should be encouraged, is now live: “Best of both worlds - how to teach English whilst supporting home languages” sbs.com.au/language/english/… #aussieEd #ell #eal #ellchat #tesoloz – at Sydney, New South Wales

IF the expectation is to use the (Eng) units of work, THEN you (must) know our texts as this helps with selecting vocabulary to teach and WHY? And what about grammar? Well… vocab and grammar are NOT inseparable. Ever. #tesoloz #vocabed #writing

.@MSiokos ‘just under 50 teachers from (now) 20 schools 😇. “Using tier 2 and 3 vocabulary for purposeful writing” PL Day 2 w/ @jrossbridge Adapt, enhance (or NoT, and start from scratch) Units of work: be critical. How ‘explicit’ are the units in teaching writing?#tesoloz #vocab

EALD Strategy Cowpasture Network: ‘Designing Vocab for Purposeful Learning’ EALD Project PL #1 w/ Bev Derewianka @Bonnyrigg_HS w/ 18 schools (inc Fairfield PS) 62 educators, inc 14 EAL/D Ed Leaders & advisors, present. TY for saying ‘YES’. #BetterTogether #aussieEd #tesoloz #vocabulary #vocabed

I’m very biased towards EALD, as you know 😁 In my own ‘Utopia’, and this is acknowledging the current teacher shortage, our EALD colleagues would not be used as ‘casuals’ and the EALD programs continue to run and are supported in EVERY school every single day so that we’re able to support hundreds of EALD Ss, inc those from refugee b/grounds. Wearing my .@ATESOLNSW as current President, I’m also looking forward to upcoming meetings bet ATESOL Council members & @pruecar to discuss the National EALD Roadmap 😇 🙏🏼 #tesoloz #aussieEd – at Sydney, New South Wales

The FIRST step to an effective New Arrivals Program supporting newly arrived EAL/D learners is to create a SAFE & SECURE learning environment. #aussieEd #tesoloz – at Sydney, New South Wales

.@ATESOLNSW .@ATESOLACT Greetings!Give me your TOP TWO EALD Principles &/or strategies that have worked wonders for you! Mine are: 1.Maintain & keep your home language/s. 2. ‘Frontload’ carefully selected vocab words in a text prior 2 reading or viewing a text #tesoloz #aussieEd – at Sydney, New South Wales