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ESL PROGRAM GOALS

The goal of The Jefferson County Board of Education’s English as a Second Language Program (ESL) is to provide equal educational opportunities through English Language Development (ELD) to students who have a Non-English Language Background (NELB) and who are Limited-English Proficient (LEP).

Jefferson County Schools strives to create a learning environment that encourages students' pride in their cultural heritage and provides the cognitive and affective support to help all students achieve academic success.

The ESL Program is designed to help Limited-English Proficient students develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in English to a level of proficiency that allows them to compete with their English-speaking peers academically and to participate in the mainstream activities of the school.

 ESL STAFF

ESL SUPERVISOR                   

PARENT INVOLVEMENT INTERPRETER                                 

  • Lari Valtierra
  •  Edith Comstock

FULL TIME ESL TEACHERS

 PART TIME ESL TUTORS

  • Susan Dollar
  • Dianne Baer
  • Stephanie White
  • Lynne Coleman
  • Shirley Bingham
  • Holly Crawford
  • Susan Blazer
  • Kimberly Crumpton
  • Sara Brown
  • Ginny Landrum
  • Mary Downey
  • Shannon Lanier
  • Meg Gillette
  • Lenesha Moyegun
  • Laurie McCormick
  • Anne Musso
  • Cindy Ponder
  • Emmalee O'Donnell
  • Martha Nan Rush
  • Barbara Quinn
  • Wendy Soles
  • Jody Stewart
  •  
  • Patsy Vines

 ELL Training Calendar

 DATE/TIME  DESCRIPTION AUDIENCE

 June 2 & June 9

9:00-11:00 OR 1:00-3:00

CHOOSE ONLY ONE DAY/SESSION

 TRANSACT Training

Indroduction to Transact on-line service.  Download forms:medical, registration, field trip, parent communications, discipline, etc.

 Registrars, Counselors, Nurses, Teachers, ADministrators

 July 8

9:00-4:00

Meeting the Needs of ELLs

Overview of policy/procedures for JEFCOED ESL.  Focus on interpreting ACCESS for ELLs data and using WIDA ELP Standards to meet both language & academic needs of ELLs.

  ALL Elementary, Middle, & High School Teachers

August 2-4

8:30-3:30

BACK TO SCHOOL DATA TRAININIG

Training on AMAOs for ELLs - review 2010 ACCESS results and other data to project service needs for 2010-2011 year.

 ESL Teachers & tutors

 

 
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