EL Lens
Perry Township Office of English Learners
Project Zero
A thinking routine is a short series of steps that guides your thought process. They're simple and easy to use. Best of all, encouraging students to use them regularly will lead to them growing in confidence, improving critical thinking, and more open discussions.
Thinking Routines in Action
He then allowed students to choose one student generated question to answer.
Link to the Routine here.
Mr. Drwecki's question stems.
Student generated question
Student generated question
Education Chats
Flippity
Clinton Young Elementary has been using Flippity. Andy Conkle and Liz Price (Master Teachers) demonstrated how Flippity can be used in clusters.
- Each activity is first created in the template (make a copy),
- then publish to the web,
- then you click the unique link. (Make sure to publish to the web.)
Easily turn a Google™ Spreadsheet into a Set of Online Flashcards and Other Cool Stuff!
Academic Conversation Tracker
WIDA ACCESS: January 11th-March 12th
During the COVID-19 pandemic, WIDA is taking measures to maintain service to educators in a safe and practical way. They remain committed to supporting educators, multilingual children, and their families during this difficult time, and always. WIDA has developed a best practices resource designed to support test coordinators and test administrators in safely administering ACCESS and WIDA Screener. In a collaboration between WIDA and IDOE, they have extended this year's window to allow for students in quarantine and for making arrangements for remote learners to test.
Besides administering the test, you can support testing by familiarizing yourself with the test format and sample items. For Kindergarten ACCESS, ask your EL teacher(s) to show you the materials and format of the test. WIDA also provides paper-based writing samples for grades 1-3:
Grade 1, Tier A: Indoor Play
Grade 1, Tier B/C: Making Bird Feeders
Grades 2-3, Tier A: Flowers at the Park
Grades 2-3, Tier B/C: Our Town
Helping our staff and students stay safe during testing, getting certified to administer WIDA ACCESS, and familiarizing yourself with the test to inform your own instruction are just a few ways you can help. Please check with your EL team to see how else you can support during this time.
EL Team
Perry Township Schools Office of English Learners
Phone number: 317-789-3720
Twitter: @PerryTwpEL
Whitney Wilkowski-Director
email: wwilkowski@perryschools.org
Twitter: @w_wilkowski
Lisa Netsch-EL Supervisor
email: lnetstsch@perryschools.org
Twitter: @CanDo_Teaching
email: nseal@perryschools.org
Twitter: @NicholeSeal2