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- November 2012 – Submitted by Ina Demers and Alex Lapidus ESL/ BILINGUAL PROGRAMS STATEWIDE CONFERENCE CALL NOTES October 16 Moderated by Nancy Mullins Reminders – Upcoming dates/events: ACCESS: Test ordering – Pre-Id Label – Bubble in years in Maine ESL program MetriTech Ships Test Materials to Districts November 14-20, 2012 ACCESS Test window opens …
- April 2011 – Submitted by Laura Wittmann and Ina Demers While several private high schools in Maine (notably, George Stevens Academy in Ellsworth, Foxcroft Academy in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine Central Institute in Waterville and John Bapst in Bangor) have tuitioned international students before, both Millinocket and Orono High will tuition international students in Fall 2011. …
- April 2012 – Submitted by Kern Goyette and Debra St. Lawrence Karen Goyette writes: The Hudson School District has been participating in an extensive WIDA research project which looks at the ways in which content-area teachers use WIDA resources to meet the needs of their English Language Learners. The project WIDA is conducting is …
- April 2011 – Submitted by Kern Goyette and Debra St. Lawrence ESOL Network Meeting: Upper Valley TESOL Network – The Upper Valley TESOL Network meets the first Wednesday of every month at 3:00 at Seminary Hill School at 20 Seminary Hill in West Lebanon, NH. Meetings are held in the white annex in front …
November 2012 News from the Department of Education: A series of Vermont Title III sponsored professional development workshops for educators of English Language Learners will be held throughout the 2012-2013 school year. The theme for all four workshops will be formative language assessment. The series will include: Formative Assessment and the Development of Language Targets …
- April 2011 – Submitted by Kirsten Kollgaard News from CREATE at Saint Michael’s College December CREATE conference 12 teams comprised of SMC faculty from both Applied Linguistics and Education and K- 12 ESL and content teachers from the Burlington, South Burlington and Winooski School. Districts met at a day-long conference in December, Teaching Academic …