Category Archives: Professional Development Offerings

FREE PD! Virtual Book Study on Boosting Achievement

It is never too late to benefit from our global, virtual book study on the Boosting Achievement book!  If you don’t yet have the book, you can plug in at any point from July 9-Aug 12th. Even before you get your book! (Links to podcasts at bottom of this post)

If you’d rather do the book study on your own or with your colleagues, the questions will be posted on this landing page along with other resources to support self or group study.

Why should you read this book? Well, TESOL International is recommending it for summer reading.  And look what Larry Ferlazzo just tweeted about it:

Larry is an Ed Week teacher advice columnist, he writes about ELLs for the NY Times and he is an urban high school teacher.  These leaders in the ESL industry know what teachers need and so we are ready!  Share with your colleagues because this book is becoming popular with ANY kind of teacher. It really helps us see how our SIFE students can participate and thrive in ANY kind of class.   In fact! If you want to get all ready and jazzed for this, listen to this podcast with Derek Rhodenizer of #MADPD fame. Derek interviewed me on his show about the book and other innovative thoughts.  Listen here.

How do you join the virtual book study?  Twitter chats & Google Hangouts happen July 9th – Aug 12th!   Some of you just did an eye-roll when I mentioned Twitter & Google Hangout.  But no worries!  There is no need to be proficient with either of those technologies.   Anyone can jump right in! To participate or follow the chats:

On Twitter:  All you need is to have/create a Twitter account to follow the hashtag.  Just search on #Ellchat_BkClub to see the current book being studied. You will see all the questions and comments from others who are reading the book at the same time. Please do weigh in with your thoughts but it’s ok if you’d rather just see what others are saying.  After August 12th, the chats will be archived and links will be posted to the landing page.

Google Hangouts:  Same thing. All you need is the ability to watch YouTube. Some of us will be doing a few “hangouts” which will broadcast over YouTube.  We would LOVE to have readers in the hangout with us but you can also just watch. Send me a direct message on Facebook or Twitter if you’d like to be in one of the hangouts. Or just watch and comment. See Cassandra Chapa in this pic doing her #VirtuEL17 session and referencing the book!

This round of #ELLChat_BkClub is structured as a 5 week book study.  Questions are posted each Sunday on Twitter and on my Facebook Page with a link to the twitter chat. Just search #ELLChat_BkClub or send me a message if you need help to get started.

Here are places you can get this book so that you can participate or launch your own:

You can order straight from the Seidlitz Education Website. 

Also, Amazon carries the book now! This is the Amazon link. 

PODCASTS & Videos:

Tan Huynh wrote the amazing forward. Tan is a leader in the ESL PD online community and many of us were astounded to learn that he and his family are refugees.  His older siblings began school with interrupted formal education. His story and his perspective creates the perfect opening to a book which reveals what is possible for every child. I want to thank him again for his collaboration. We reflect on his the forward in Week 1. You can hear him tell his story on the Rolland Chidiac Connects podcast:
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Carol was also interviewed by  Derek Rhodenizer on Beyond The Staffroom.  The podcast is a must-follow for education professionals wanting to stay at the forefront of innovation.  Derek is an administrator in Canada and one of the co-founders of #MADPD.  He read the book and you can listen to the interview here: bit.ly/2tMuKvv

So yes!  Please Join us!  We know that learning is powerful when we collaborate.  Anna Matis and I wrote the book and WE are learning so much as we interact with people about it!

Thanks for your continued support!  Support of our book and support of ELLs and SIFE students!

Best,

Carol

 

My Kahoot Session & #VirtuEL17 – An EL Conference Delivered Straight to Your Device

#VirtuEL17  was amazing!  It happened in early June, but don’t worry, you didn’t miss it.  Everything you need to “attend” this virtual ESL conference is below.  Here is my Kahoot for ESL Newcomers session but be sure to explore the conference flyer below for more ESL sessions on a variety of topics.

You can play/teach an ESL Kahoot lesson by using this Kahoot I made: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/d561d41e-a78b-4771-bbb4-20b53f849f09

Like many conferences, #VirtuEL17  features top ESL educators and specialists who are sharing their passion and effective techniques for working with English Learners.  The difference is that this conference comes right to your home, right to your device!  For all the details, see the conference program here: https://t.co/1kyE51IBFf

 

VirtuEL is staff development by teachers, FOR teachers.  It is the brainchild of Tan Huynh, a master educator who blogs on the popular site, EmpoweringELLs.com. His site is a resource center that contains articles about instructional practices that support ELs’ language development.  Tan and I had been planning VirtuEL when we were asked to participate in the the virtual conference,#MADPD.  The day of learning inspired us and propelled us toward realizing Tan’s vision of a virtual conference for ESL educators.   His idea is taking shape now that we have so many sessions lined up that can be watched live and then re-watched on demand.  Most will be live sessions but some will be pre-recorded with the opportunity for a live Q&A with the presenters.    

Opening Keynote by Nancy Motley 9;00 am ET

Author and Seidlitz Education Consultant, Nancy Motley is delivering the first Keynote session 9:00 am Eastern.  This 5 minute video is a sneak peek of her talk and will give you an idea of the insight that Nancy will share with us that morning:

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A Flipped Keynote by Larry Ferlazzo 10:45 am ET

We have another incredible keynote speaker at 10:45 am Eastern.  Educator, Author and Ed Week teacher advice columnist, Larry Ferlazzo, will be answering our questions and chatting with us about his talk on Social Emotional Learning (SEL).  To participate fully, please watch this 15 minute video by Larry entitled “Social Emotional Learning & Common Core.” 

 

FLIPPED PD: Bring your comments and questions to the conference at 10:45 Eastern and tune into Larry’s YoutubeLive event here.  Larry will answer our questions and hear our comments about this important tool for working with English Learners.  The video will have a chat feature or you may log into Twitter and post your comments using the hashtag #VirtuEL17.  I will be monitoring the feed along with Tan and Larry.

Thought Provoking Breakout Sessions 10:00 am & 11:00 am ET

The breakout sessions will feature several leaders in ESL instruction. Those sessions will take place at 10:00 and 11:00 am Eastern.  Presenters include Tan Huynh,  Cassandra  Chapa, Carlotta Holder, Valentina Gonzalez, Bret Gosselin, Andrea Honigsfeld, Katie Toppel, Ed.D and Carol Salva

You can find the lineup and all the links by visiting the conference flyer page here: https://t.co/1kyE51IBFf

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We hope you will participate in our first #VirtuEL conference.  I am inspired by what educators are doing on their own time to make this possible.   Thank you, Tan Huynh, Nancy Motley, Larry Ferlazzo, and all who are reading this.  We are delighted to deliver this innovative day of learning.  You deserve it!

Hope to see you here: https://t.co/1kyE51IBFf !

Carol

 

Great Job Last Year! Top 6 Actions to Take Your ELs Even Further This School Year

EduHero Friends,

Congratulations on a job well done!  You may be sitting there thinking, “Carol, you have no idea what I have or have not done.”

Well, what I know is that you are looking for tips to better your pedagogy with language learners. I know you care enough to read a blog about it on your own time. That, my friend, tells me all I need to know.  If you are that kind of teacher, you are the kind of teacher that has made some personal connections with your students. You are the kind of teacher that keeps learning for your students.  You are the kind of teacher that believes in kids! It makes a difference.  Take a moment to be so very proud of all you accomplish in your learning space.  Those accomplishments are magnified and multiplied by them students who leave your care.

As I am writing this, we just ended our school year.  I have to share the pics we took at graduation!  We graduated several newcomers and our first SIFE student from a refugee camp in Africa.  I was not his teacher as he came last year.  But I watched what he did to close his gaps and my newcomers benefitted greatly from his example. We will have more and more!

So Now What??

Well, here are my top recommendations for getting ready for next year.  Feel free to reach out to ask any questions about my thoughts here:

1) Check out your Non-mandatory District PD

I’m excited about QTEL and other training being offered by my district. Be sure to take advantage of what is in your back yard.

2) Create a Twitter Account.

Follow #ELLChat, #TxTESOL4  to learn and #ELs_CAN to be inspired. (Thx @Carlotta_Holder ) Then follow other hashtags as you find them.  Don’t worry about mastering Twitter.  Just get over there, search on one of these hashtags and you will be amazed at the information being shared. Follow me at @MsSalvac, @LarryFerlazzo  & @TanELLClassroom to start.  Then follow some of the amazing folks that we retweet or that you find in the twitter chats. (what are Twitter chats?  Wow, you are missing out.  Follow me there, send me a message, I’ll get you hooked up.  Awesome PD by teachers for teachers in your PJs.)  Oh! and be sure  to start looking for #VirtuEL17 hashtag to take off.  We have a great virtual EL conference coming to you on June 17th!

3) Submit a Proposal for an ESL/ELL Conference

Why? Because it makes us better. Just like the students, we gain so much when we teach something to others. No stress on this. You probably have many things you can teach others.  But some have told me that they don’t feel like they are an expert in anything.  Well, did you try something?  Did it not work?? Great! Bravo for taking risks and now you can submit a proposal for a “Lessons Learned” presentation. Folks love to hear the honest lessons and successes of others. If something didn’t work well, why? That is a great example of failing forward and we can all benefit from your reflection and growth!  And think about doing it for the state TESOL conference here in Texas (#TxTESOL4).  We have folks coming from all over!  Stephen Krashen & John Seidlitz are keynote speakers.  You can’t go wrong.  Here is that link: http://www.textesoliv.org/ You’ll meet some awesome ESL PLN friends like @ValentinaESL, @KarenElizLewis, @DiegoJulissa  & the awesome @EmilyFranESL who will present with me!

4) Create a Selfie Kahoot for the First Day of School

Easy to do just before we go back.  You are simply creating an online quiz  about yourself.  This is a great way to get to connect with all learners on Day 1.  Use visuals so ALL of our students get to know their new teacher.  Next step, Kiddos creating a Selfie! Here is a blogpost Kahoot asked me to write about that: Language Learning with Carol Salva Part 2, Selfie Kahoots.

5) Participate in a Summer Book Club for your own Personalized PD.

If you want to join in on some awesome reads this summer, search #ELLchat_BkClub.  We will be doing a few different books thanks to @TanELLClassroom & @Toppel_ELD. I am having to sit one out right now and it is KILLING ME! The beauty of this is that the questions & answers are published so I can still learn a ton from what others are reading.  I just follow that hashtag.

6) Plan SOME Type of Language Assessment for Mid-fall.

Consider how you are going to assess language development 3 months into the school year.  Or even more frequently.  It can be random writing samples, a rubric, or something that mimics your standardized assessments.  Doesn’t have to be laborious but we do want to see growth & plan for adjustments way before the end of year assessments.

BONUS:   Take What You Learn District Wide.  Read @ValentinaESL’s Post about Creating Systemic Change.

If you are driven to take what you are learning about  serving ELs, and share it with your staff or your district, Valentina Gonzales published an amazing post on how to do just that.  It is a must read for administrators but teachers like us can also benefit from her perspectiive.  Systemic solutions are where the most pay-off is for us and for our learners:  A Common Thread That Binds, Creating Systemic Change

ALSO!! Our resource for boosting achievement of SIFE is now on Amazon and we are getting booked up for training dates.  My fabulous co-author, Anna Matis, and I are so humbled by the response and we are so happy to be helping ESL teachers who work with under schooled students.  Boosting Achievement on Amazon & Here is a link to training & ordering in volume for your campus: Boosting Achievement on Seidlitz Ed website.

So those are my biggies.  Let’s get ready for another amazing year!

There is more, of course, but that is what we are sharing over on Twitter!  Hope to see you there.

Reach out with questions or comments.

Have a great beginning of summer if you are in our neck of the woods.   And stay awesome!!

Carol

 

Deeper Uses of Kahoot MAD PD Session

Hello PLN!

Want to get the most out of Kahoot for your ESL students?  These two PD videos will offer ideas on how to do just that.

The first video PD is from #MADPD: https://youtu.be/KyXr-SI-mUw.

The second video is at the bottom of this post.  It was from #VirtuEL17, another online conference where I repeated this session with different examples.

A Google Doc with Notes is Here

#MADPD was a short PD session streaming live on May 7th at 6pm EST.

We had some great ESL/Linguistic folks joining me in the live Youtube session.  Emily Francies (@emilyfranESL), Carlotta Holder (@carlota_holder) and Rami Amin (@RmTux) graciously agreed to be in the hangout with me so you’ll get to hear their questions and ideas added to the mix!

In these sessions, I provide a lot of ideas for using Kahoot in deeper ways.  You may have seen some of these ideas on my other blog posts but in the Youtube session we will  have more insight from the guests.  And scroll down for links to even more MADPD sessions also.  Here are a few links for our session:

Kahoot Planning Template (Paper templates for any learner to create Kahoots!)

Our Holiday Traditions Kahoot. (Our class has created a Kahoot about holidays they celebrate throughout the year in different parts of the world.)

And here is the VirtuEL17 version of this training.

You can check out all the great #VirtuEL sessions at this smore:   

MORE KAHOOT RESOURCES:

Teach Kahoot! (Everything you need to offer a Kahoot PD for other educators.)

Kahoot Professional Development Resources (Getting started and everything you want to know about Kahoot!)

I love blogging for Kahoot!  Here are some of my articles that offer more tips for ESL teachers:

Kahoot Blog on Using Kahoot for ELLs – Part 1, Students Creating Kahoots

 Kahoot Blog on Using Kahoot for ELLs – Part 2, Students Creating Selfie Kahoot

Kahoot Blog on Using Kahoot  for  ELLs – Part 3, Tips and Tricks

The Kahoot I used in this session:  Deeper Uses of Kahoot

These online conferences are fantastic for self-directing our own learning.  I hope you’ll consider submitting a proposal for MADpd in 2018.

Thanks to everyone who is here to get more ideas for your ELLs.   And thanks to all of you who are sharing so that all of us are building on each other’s strengths!

Check out ALL the great #MADPD sessions:.  https://mrcssharesease.wordpress.com/m-a-d-p-d/  There are over 60 teacher presenters from around the world who put out quick PD sessions on May 7th for you to see.  And they will be there whenever you have time to watch what has made a difference in our teaching.

 

See you next time,

Carol Salva

Find me on twitter: @MsSalvaC

Do you want more PD on ESL teaching strategies?  Please email me at carolsalva1@gmail.

I’m happy to bring Seidlitz Education training to your district.  And LOOK! Our new book on reaching under-schooled students is now out and available for purchase!  The training around it is also great.

 

Gamify Language Acquisition with Kahoot

Didn’t make it to SXSWEdu? Here are some highlights from what I shared daily from the Kahoot Activity Lounge.   I shared ideas on using Kahoot to promote authentic language production by newcomers (and all kids).20170304-113630.jpg
We caught the first few minutes of my presentation on video: 

So are you familiar with Kahoot? It is super easy to make an online quiz and students don’t need to create accounts to play.  You can even search the millions that are already made & play one of those.   Students LOVE Kahoot.  If you try it, you’ll find that students actually request that you review content this way.

So now… how do I use Kahoot to promote language learning?  Well, let’s remember that as an educator, my goal with language acquisition is to provide sheltered learning opportunities.  My two big objectives for this are to

1) Make Content Comprehensible

2) Develop Academic Language

Making Content Comprehensible

Visuals and gestures are high on this list of things that help a language learner comprehend your message.  For example, if I am telling my class that the earth is the third planet from the sun, I may get some blank stares from my students who are new arrivals.  It likely sounds like “The blah is the blah blah blah the blah.”  But if I point to this image of the earth and count over with my fingers 1, 2, 3 and then point to the sun while I say that… there is usually instant comprehension from anyone who is watching.

(Image from www.elisbergindustries.com)

Know what else?  Many of my native speakers benefit from this visual as well!  Most of my students are not auditory learners.  Take a look at that picture and tell me if that wouldn’t be helpful to any child who is learning that concept?  So here is what it looks like in the middle of a Kahoot game.

But look at this quiz. WHY would I wait to use this after I have taught a concept?  Why not use this highly engaging activity to TEACH this concept?

There are some amazing Kahooters out there creating “Blind Kahoots” that offer an example of how to build a lesson with Kahoot.  Stephanie Castle, (@castlestephanie) High School IB Bio teacher in New York, pioneered this concept and her Mitosis Blind Kahoot is a great example.  This is so successful with students that Kahoot now offers a template for creating your own Blind Kahoot.  Everything you want to know about this is here: The Art of Blind Kahooting

We know that our language learners are going to benefit from learning concepts this way. If you allow students to take a stab at the answer, and then pull the image back up before you go on to the next question, your Kahoot becomes a super engaging, interactive presentation with visuals and opportunities for more sheltered strategies by the teacher.  It is pretty great to have the undivided attention of your class while you bring everyone back to the image to explain why the answer is what it is.  Not only is this powerful for all your visual learners, it is a great opportunity to work in test taking strategies.  How many of our students are missing standardized test questions because they are not attending to the image?  Be thoughtful about your images and point out the power of attending to them.  Teaching the concepts this way has been working extremely well with my newcomer class.

Developing Academic Language

Making your content comprehensible and engaging for the class is a huge win. But for us, we are getting even more mileage out of our Kahoot lessons because we are intentional about building the students’ academic language.  We know that we internalize concepts more if we verbalize them.  I want my students feeling comfortable with the language as soon as possible.  I want all students speaking academically because it will cement learning and open doors for them if they get into the habit.  Therefore, I am a big proponent of newcomers reading in unison for practice with pronunciation.  Most language learners are very fixated on how they sound when speaking in their second language.  According to Stephen Krashen, we will get a lot further with our students if we can lower their anxiety about participating in class. (http://www.sk.com.br/sk-krash.html)  If they feel comfortable pronouncing words like “homologous pair of chromosomes,” we have a better shot at getting them to use that language when we ask them to speak authentically about our content. This is why we always read the question stem and correct answer all together before we move on to the next question.

See these examples of what we would practice learning AND saying through a Kahoot on explorers:

All of my students are benefitting from the learning of content this way.  My newcomers are practicing complete academic sentences and also comprehending the content because I am teaching with visuals & gestures.  In that example, I made both “ship” and “vessel” correct answers so we could point out that new vocabulary for all students.

Marie Heath (@ELLatPISD) of Plano ISD recently gave me a great idea for a variation on this.  She suggests turning all of the questions into True/False statements.  Your answers could be changed to “I agree” and “I disagree.”  Kahoot allows  you to turn off the points so that it is not a competition but rather a springboard for discussion.  Marie’s idea is to use this “Agree/Disagree” Kahoot as an anticipatory set.  Jennifer Gonzalez (@cultofPedagogy) has a great blog post here about the power of the anticipatory set.   I love this idea because you are using the engagement of Kahoot to have students critically thinking, they are practicing the language and using it in authentic conversations.

 

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Practicing the new language will lead to more comfort USING the new language.  Here is a video of a day that I had EIGHT newcomers arrive in class and I wanted a way to review our social contract.  Kahoot to the rescue.  Newcomers practicing their new language on Day one: https://youtu.be/rt-P3t3BbHw

JUMBLE

Another feature that I know I will share is the new way to use Kahoot called Jumble. You are basically re-ording words or phrases so that they are in the correct sequence.   This is an example of the game screen for a jumble I am using:

The players have a screen that looks like this on their device:

They are to drag the colors/shapes into the correct order.  There are obvious benefits here for second language acquisition.  You have visuals and opportunities for oral practice as we stated earlier.  You also have the advantage of creating sentences that are aligned with your grammar goals.  And don’t forget that you can throw in sentences that are inspirational or meaningful to their learning.

This is a practice jumble I made for staff development: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/6241fb11-6017-47e8-8c85-1195444210c6

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What about your newcomer #ELLs creating Kahoots?? Yes! They can. Check out this blogpost on how:


Holiday Traditions Selfie Kahoot = Authentic Writing & Global Learning

I’m only scratching the surface of what we do with Kahoot to inspire students to use language authentically.  Below are a few other posts I have done about Kahoot.  Check those out our just start using the free platform.  I’m sure you will be inspired to think of even more innovative ways to facilitate academic conversations while you have the undivided attention of every student!

Happy Kahooting!

Carol

Kahoot with Brand New ELs + Skype with Krew

Heritage Learning with Day of the Dead Kahoot

News in Levels and Kahoot

Videos and Other Resources

Hey There Fellow ELL Advocate!

Thanks to everyone who has sent requests lately for specific videos and resources to support your students.   Most of the videos I use for trainings can be found at this link: VIDEOS.  The most requested video is the one below of Gerson:

This is the one that could help you motivate your ELLs or your teachers.  This is powerful because it helps us realize what is possible.  Gerson read an hour a day and did a lot of language practice. We don’t expect all of our students to gain this much fluency in 7 months, but they should know that their rate of learning their second language has a lot to do with how much they want to work at it.  If they read more, they will be able to read more.  If they speak more, they will be able to speak more. As teachers, we just need to provide the support for them to be able to do it.

If you like that one, you probably would love to see how he is doing now (2016/17 school year).  Here is a quick 20 second update clip.  Notice he tells us that things get MUCH easier after your first year in a new country.

This sparked a shared essay about what traits Gerson has that we have.  Then some of my students sent messages to Gerson (emails and quick videos) and so there was even more authentic English being produced around this.  So great!  Thank you, Gerson!

Teachers also requested the information about the Social Contract that I have in my room.  This comes from Capturing Kids’ Hearts.  What is recommended is that you allow your students to create the norms for the classroom.  Those norms are created through lots of discussion around their responses to these 4 questions:

Social Contract Questions

  1. How do you want to be treated by others?
  2. How do you think others want to be treated by you?
  3. How do you want to be treated by the Teacher
  4. How do you think the teacher (me) is treated

I  love this strategy by the Flipin Group.  The way we do this is that we only offer ONE of these questions at a time.  Students talk it through with a partner and then with a group and then they find someone else to share their thoughts.  We throw out a few of their ideas but ask them to be more specific about things like “respect” so we can all be on the same page.  Then they offer suggestions and I start to script the norms on the board.  If EVERYONE agrees on something it goes on the social  contract.  Here are a few from my class and Joseph Maurer & Natalia Mendoza’s Algebra classes:

Last but not least, I have promised to re-post the Kahoot Printable Template for planning a Kahoot.  This image will take you to Kahoot’s dropbox where you can download a PDF of the document.  If you run into any  problems email me at carolssalva1@gmail.com and I’ll email you a copy.

This planning page is fantastic for raising the cognitive level of thinking.   Any level of language learner can do this.  Sometimes their writing is in their first language, but we can fix that up pretty quickly with Google translate as a start.  I usually ask the students to do just one question and I compile them and make the Kahoot.  But your students may be at a level where they can get online and make a kahoot on their own.  Also! Kahoot has a LOT more resources for you on their PD website.  

I’m proud to be an ambassador for Kahoot.  It is an honor to share the ways my students inspire me to use the free resource.  In fact, if you are in Austin any time March 6-9, please come to the JW Marriott one of those days at 10:00am.  I will be with the rest of the K!rew modeling ways to use Kahoot to inspire language production.  SXSWEdu is going on at that time but the Kahoot Activity Space is free to everyone so come play!

Here are a few other posts I have done on ways we use Kahoot in my classroom:

First Kahoot of the Year and a Bonus Language Experience

Kahoot with News in Levels

Day of the Dead Kahoot -Use Any Time of Year

Holidays Traditions Selfie Kahoot (AMAZING OUTCOMES)

Kahoot with Bonus Activity

For newcomer teachers, here is a quick video of how I worked with newcomers to support their English practice the day they arrived.  Many new kiddos on this day but they were having fun and happy to try to read in unison as we reviewed the social contract for my class:

Please reach out if you have any requests or questions.  Or things to share!  We are all so much better together.

Have a great day, Teaching Rock Star!  I know you’re a rock star because you are on a site looking for ways to support your language learners.

Stay Awesome.

Carol

Join me in Houston on March 1st!

We still have some spots available for your ESL teachers!  Your content teachers who work with under-schooled students or newcomers will also appreciate this practical training.

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Seidlitz Education – Giving kids the gift of academic language.

In addition to being a classroom teacher, I am a Seidlitz Educational Consultant.  Most of the success of the students on this blog can be traced back to principles of sheltered instruction.  These techniques are research-based and proven to be effective for all learners.  They are critical for our language learners.

We offer a variety of popular trainings that can be viewed at the Seidlitz Education website.  Teachers love the practical techniques provided to them through engaging professional development. Administrators appreciate the results that follow when teachers are empowered with strategies that enhance pedagogy and support all types of learners.

Please contact me to bring Seidlitz Education training, coaching or mentoring to your district.   carolsalva1@gmail.com   or 832-788-9478

 

TexTESOL State Conference

Get over to Twitter & follow #2016TxTESOLConf if you want some free ESL learning!  Here are highlights & links from my sessions.  I appreciate that there have been so many sessions regarding refugees and SIFE students.  I learned so much!

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Excited for the Region V TexTESOL Conference on Nov 12th.  I’ll be doing this session there as well.  Hope you’ll be there.  Here is that link: http://textesoliv.org/

Happy Learning!

Happy Teaching!

Reach out at carolsalva1@gmail.com if you have any questions at all.  🙂

TCCA 2016 Conference Notes

Thanks for stopping by my session!

Please email me at carolsalva1@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Today’s Google Slides Presentations with Embedded Links:

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Kahoot PD Resources and Printables:

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Videos to support Newcomers, SIFE and Any ESL student:

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Play our Selfie Kahoot!

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March SIFE Conference in Houston!

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Connect with me on Facebook:

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