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ELL information for teachers to use.

Equity Meeting- Federal Programs October 11, 2012

Federal Programs at Equity Meeting  October 11, 2012 Josh Kramer, Kris Ross, Irene Prince (Transitional Specialist)-  Youth Development Team Money is from the Federal government, or have to follow federal regulations.  Equity is not Equality.  It needs to be fair. … Continue reading

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ELL Update #6 What do we do in ELL?

What do we do in ELL? As ELL teachers we  have the opportunity to observe the daily teaching of our General Education colleagues every day as we are picking up and dropping off our ELL students.   However our colleagues do … Continue reading

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Equity Meeting information 9/13/12- Homeless Students and Student Services

On Thursday September 13, we had our first Equity Liasion meeting of the year. What is Educational Equity? ( taken from the LPS Educational Equity Handbook) Preparing all students to be citizens committed to: recognizing dignitiy and worth of human … Continue reading

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Hoa Tran, Vietnamese Liaison

It is with sadness that I learned that  West Lincoln’s Vietnamese Liaison, Hoa Tran  passed away.    Here is a link to an article on the LPS website that tells more about Hoa.  

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West Lincoln by the NUMBERS- August 2012

West Lincoln ELL by the numbers August 2012 28 students tested out in July 2012 147 students are in ELL k-5 levels 1-5 26 kg students 44 1st  grade students 24 2nd grade students 17 3rd grade students 41 4th … Continue reading

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Back to School, Back to English

This has been a busy and tiring week.  A whole summer of no school schedules and here we are going to start school tomorrow.  I am excited and nervous.  Last week being able to meet the new staff and new … Continue reading

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2012 Test outs from West Lincoln

Happy Monday!! I just wanted to let you all know who completed the ELL program this past summer!  We had 28 students test out,  I do not have our last years 5th graders did since they are counted at 6 … Continue reading

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Family Literacy- I Am Poems

One of the great benefits of being an ELL teacher is that we also have parents learning English as well.  Our school was fortunate to also have a Family Literacy program to help our student’s parents learn English along side … Continue reading

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Kindergarten to 1st grade Summer Calendar

Ms. Jane made a a summer calendar of activities to help our Kindergarten students be ready for 1st grade on the first day of school in August.   There is a calendar for June, July and August.  Also there is a … Continue reading

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Field Trips!!

One of the special parts of being an ELL Teacher is that I have the opportunity to work with so many wonderful children in the course of a school day.  Also since I have been the Kindergarten ELL teacher for … Continue reading

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