Bristol VA Public Schools K-12 ESL Teacher, Region VII Rep and Vice President for the Virginia EL Supervisors' Association, Adjunct Faculty at King University
Bristol, VA
Joined September 2015
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Excited to spend the day with @ValentinaESL at the Title III Consortium Conference
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Have you registered yet? vavesa.org/conference
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The 2024 VESA conference is moving! We can't wait to see you in Williamsburg!
I was honored to receive the Distinguished Service and Excellence in Teaching awards at the @VirginiaESLSA #VESA2023 conference. I received these for the small divisions, who work tirelessly with an office of one, to provide quality instruction for #MLLs Our MLs matter, too!
"Pinterest is not pedagogy, and STEM does not come in a bin." @Dorina_BELIEVE #VESA2023
I had the pleasure of working with Wilson and Hillary on a regional networking session for the Title III Consortium Conference in Roanoke. @Title3Saunders #collaboration
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Newly Updated Statistics On English Language Learners In U.S. Schools larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2…
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Reading aloud to students is NOT just for elementary grades or for reading & writing classrooms. It’s for all grade levels, all students, all classrooms.
A read-aloud can be as short as 3-5 minutes. It can be a poem, excerpt, brochure, chapter, an article, etc. #WorldBookDay
If you don't have a copy of Teaching Language in Context, i highly recommend it. A functional approach to language is an equitable approach to language.
Such a rich learning experience last night at the "Teaching Language in Context" (Derewianka and Jones, 2012) Book Club session #2 with
@RuslanaWesterl. Scaffolding activities along the register continuum provides students more resources/tools for meaning-making.
"Language is a system of choices, not an inventory of rules." -@RuslanaWesterl #SFL #TeachingLanguageInContext
"Multilingual learners can no longer be the few students in the back of the room, whose ideas we'll tap into later when they're able to share them with us in English." ascd.org/el/articles/what-do…
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Join us tomorrow. It's FREE. Hear from @Dorina_BELIEVE, @ValentinaESL, and EL educators across Virginia. Session links here:sites.google.com/view/2022-v… #MLL #ELL #ESL #EL #ESOL
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We are excited to announce another featured speaker for our upcoming VESA conference on February 2nd. Register for FREE at vavesa.org/conference #ELL #ESL #MLL @ValentinaESL
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Have you registered for the conference on February 2nd yet? Its FREE! Register at vavesa.org/conference @Dorina_BELIEVE #MLL #ESL #ELL
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Hey VA ELs, we need your help! VESA is looking to redesign our logo and we want you to do it. Submissions are due 1/15/22. Find the submission form here: vavesa.org/conference #ell #esl #MLL #ESOL
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.@sramosABC speaks to dual language expert @JoseMedinaJr89 about destigmatizing Spanglish, challenges some Latino kids face for being unable to speak fluent Spanish.
"Some Latino children in the U.S. serve as their family's only liaison to American culture," Ramos reports.
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"English proficiency cannot be seen as a prerequisite to meaningful participation in the curriculum because this limits engagement.Instead, language must be viewed as something that is developed in the process of learning when students are supported" ascd.org/el/articles/what-do… @ASCD