Weekly Newsletter
EWSD Multilingual Learner Program News
School Visits
Duck Visited a Classroom
Materials Arriving
Upcoming Celebrations
Celebration for ELL Teachers
Where: Jericho Tavern
Date: June 8th
Time: 2-4 pm
Organizer: Christine Sealey
June Celebration for Translators, Interpreters and Multilingual Liaisons (and ELL Teachers)
Where: Location coming soon
Date: June (exact date coming soon)
Time: 6pm
Organizer: Tamara Parks
State Assessment Letters
Thanks to our wonderful translators and liaisons, the State Assessment Letter has been translated and will be sent out to families. Noor and Prem will make phone calls for families that would prefer information verbally.
Resource Share- Thanks Terri!
Check out these cool resources: My Fantastic Words Book (Terri) Word Spa Handout, Writing Lesson Range of Feelings
Updating EWSD ELL Program Page
Do you think we should update our EWSD page? Please let me know your thoughts!
Here is the EWSD ELL Program Page.
Here is Winooski’s Multilingual Learner Program Page.
Here is Burlington’s Multilingual Learner Program Page
ELLevation Full Lesson Plans Differentiated by ACCESS Scores Demo
Here are our demo credentials to check out ELLevation Strategies and a video to walk you through things. We don’t currently have this feature, but I would be curious to hear your thoughts on whether we should acquire it in the near future.
Here is the link to the walk through video.
If you want to go in and poke around, the credentials are:
Username: widademo31@ellevation.demo
Password: strategies*1
Vermont Language Justice Project
These are great meetings to attend to learn more about the efforts various advocacy and support organizations are taking to support refugees and multilingual families. If you would ever like to attend one of these Zoom meetings, please let Tamara know.
Student Information Spreadsheet
If you have new student information, or updated information for me to add (or takeaway) from ELLevation, please add it here. You do not need to send it in a separate email.
Youth Truth Surveys
Translators are reaching out to families to translate the Youth Truth surveys. Here is a link to the student Youth Truth survey. The survey is available in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Russian, Korean, Mandarin. Anyone can access the link to the survey multiple times. Families and students must complete both surveys by April 29th. If you have students who need translation of the survey, please let the translator know.
Newsletter Submissions
This newsletter will go out weekly. I would love to include your announcements, celebrations, resources and photos! If you have an announcement to share, please email it to tparks@ewsd.org with “Newsletter” in the subject line.