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Session IV, April 27-28, 2010

(Important note: Please bring your laptops and a copy of your team's action plan to the next session)

Hello Participants: You will need to respond individually to three of the following questions on your team's page (20 points each; please initial your response) prior to the end of Session Four:

1. As you consider the purpose of the English Language Learner Leadership Academy, “//To build your capacity to assist regular education teachers in becoming teachers of language development in order to implement Classroom Instruction That Works with English Language Learners strategies through Shared Leadership//”, to what degree to you believe your team has been able to achieve this purpose? I am very pleased with our plan. Our PLC's are already ac tively involved in implementing our plan. We feel we have several teachers within each PLC who implement the "Jane Hill strategies with PIE." Therefore, we are allowing for leadership amongst the staff. Since our teacher strategy book will be an in-house publication, I think more teachers will refer to this manual especially when they have meaningful examples from teachers they respect.

2. How has your team’s shared leadership approach to the implementation influenced your ELL initiative?

3. As you engaged your colleagues in professional development designed to support them in becoming teachers of language development to implement Classroom Instruction That Works with ELLs strategies, how did you use the leadereship responsibilities to manage their personal transitions (of those colleagues who would have responded "yes" to any of the following four questions) and the implications of second order change:
 * a break from the past?
 * inconsistent with organizational norms?
 * incongruent with personal values?
 * requiring new knowledge and skills?

4. As you reflect on the implementation of your ELL initiative, what leadership responsibilities did you find most helpful and how did you apply them in your context?

5. Do you believe the implementation of your ELL initiative influenced student achievement at your school? What evidence to you have to support your response?

6. As you reflect on your experience in the English Language Learner Leadership Academy and the implementation of your ELL initiative, what aspects of the experience were most successful and which would you do differently in the future? I loved the confirmation of reinforcing content vocabulary through game playing. Thank you for affirming what I already encourage for content classrooms. The vocabulary template is needed. I will incorporate the "my understanding" rating with my current template. Every strategy you introduced for ELL learners is key. The hands-on learning approach and the time given to share within our group were most invaluable.

7. Do you have evidence of changes in teacher practices or behaviors that you attribute to the implementation of your ELL initiative or the English Language Learner Leadership Academy? There are more teachers at Storm Lake High School asking questions on how they should adapt their lessons to meet ELL needs. I have been invited to offer strategies to the English and the math PLC groups. I am so proud of the math teachers who are now accommodating the vocabulary needs of students, and who are preparing guided notes for each unit. Two of the math teachers are incorporating cooperative group learning into their curriculum. This had been a previous void.

8. As you reflect upon the four English Language Learner Leadership Academy sessions, what concepts / approaches did you find the most helpful? Which one’s were least helpful?

Coaching Protocol Materials:







Session III, February 17-18, 2010



Session II, December 15-16, 2009

Greetings Storm Lake ELLLA Participants. Prior to the next session you and your team should be sure to: 1. Respond to one of the two discussion questions for session two (either A or B) 2. Complete the organizer for targeting and framing (hint: be sure to complete page 67 regarding opinion leaders in your leadership manuals first) 3. Create and/ or revise your action plan based upon your two "current reality/desired future charts" and be sure to consider a student achievement data point if possible.

Thanks much! Jane and Anne

Session I, September 22-23, 2009







Session II, December 15-16, 2009