ELL+PLC+11-12

Minutes: Monday, Feb. 27
ELDA testing is almost finished. We are trying to set up a time with an ESL curriculum company to review their language series for next year. We are having concerns with MaMa Sharal for next year. She is in a need of a full time IA to work with language and signing within the mainstream classrooms. We are also wondering, What is her future going to be like in the Storm Lake School District? She is learning sign language, but what about the teachers? Who is she going to communicate with? Are we meeting her needs under the law? We also discussed the upcoming parent teacher conferences. We will be doing group conferences again. ESL department will be working on a translator list and letters to the parents inviting them to conferences. Darla

==**Shared group conferences concerns. I told team about attending groups and some said it could be more efficient. Some teachers were standing waiting for interpreter anyway, because they weren't able to speak to parents in English. I don't know how to address this. Any ideas?? Mr. Flores**==


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**Minutes: Oct. 31 "Happy Halloween"**
==**During our PLC meeting on Wed. morning, we brainstromed for ideas of how to cover parent/teacher confereces with the limited use of translators. We came to a group discision to try group conferences with one translator. We know that their will be some issuses with time and place.... This will not work for all people, but will anything always work for all people? Our efforts are to meet the needs of our parents, students, and teachers with available translators. Darla**==
 * What a way to start a PLC week, finishing parent/teacher conferences and a holiday with a sugar rush. Our two main focuses during our PLC time are reviewing the pros and cons of conferences. Did the group conferences work and at what cost? The general impression we recieved were good and parents would like to do the group conferences again. Our ofter focus for PLC is research a more current language curriclum for our newcomers. We would like to find an ESL language curriculum that works more efficiently with our strageties and currriculum standards. Our concern is that we don't want to completely throw out everything. We have some good and useful materials, but we are unsure as to what we actually have and what we need. We would like to take time and carefully go through what we have for our department and what we think it should look like and how does that fit with the Iowa Core Curriculum Standards. Please no one correct my typing. If any one knows how to add files and documents to the Wikki, would you please show me. Darla**
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