Jane Russell Valezy

Language frames for 7 Key Academic Conversation Skills - these help my students use #academiclanguage #edchat #ellchat #Ellchat_BkClub

Looking for international schools that use LAS Links Online for admissions testing. Anyone use it or have a connection to someone who does that you could connect me with? Thx! #MLL #EAL #internationalschool #englishlanguagelearning #ESL #CEESA #ELMLE #AISC #AISA #ECISMLIE #ECIS

@WIDA_UW @NordmeyerJ @ancatoma12 Great, I’ll look forward to it! 😃

@TeachELLs @NordmeyerJ @ancatoma12 Hi Jane, Yes, we will release the news in our WIDA News newsletter. You can visit our news page to be sure that you're subscribed to the newsletter. wida.wisc.edu/news

Does anyone know if WIDA ever published the outcomes of the WIDA-CEFR correlation project work from January? I remember at the time summer was mentioned as the expected timeline. Have I missed it somewhere? @NordmeyerJ @ancatoma12 @WIDA_UW

@WIDA_UW @NordmeyerJ @ancatoma12 Great, thanks so much! Will it be shared in a WIDA newsletter email as well?

@TeachELLs @NordmeyerJ @ancatoma12 Great question! We are finalizing the research report and expect for it to be ready later this fall. We'll be posting on Twitter when we have more to share, stay tuned!

Got research? Join the MLRC at a Research Symposium this year. Together we will explore research-based insights and opportunities for teaching multilingual learners. Barcelona: Nov 18-19, 2023 Singapore: Dec 2-3, 2023 Guatemala City: Jan 27-28, 2024 mlrc.wisc.edu/events/

@AndreaHonigsfel I hope you do! 💛

@TeachELLs Thank you! I would love to come visit Hungary… for a millions reasons:)

On my way to visit Concordia International School!

Far too many popular strategies for teaching reading are not actually supported by research. We sifted through to find the ones that are most effective.

@DominiqueByrnes @KatieToppel @AllyteacherELLs Thank you! 😊

@KatieToppel @AllyteacherELLs @DominiqueByrnes These look very intriguing! Is there a shareable link to the templates?

@mthman @teacher2teacher We did an old-fashioned roll-down-the-paper appreciation activity. Each St wrote their name at bottom of paper & passed it on. Next student wrote a note of appreciation about them, folded it down and passed it on. On and on until it came back to the orig st who got to read the 💛

Looking for some end-of-year advisory activities for my 8th graders. They've been great about reflecting & writing advice to my incoming sixth graders. How do you wind down the year in advisory? #mschat #edchat #mtbos #middleschool #advisory

My son was termed a “reluctant reader” in KINDERGARTEN and I watched him give up on school as his teacher said comics were getting in the way of literacy. Was given awful boring nonsensical Bob books instead. He WANTED to read comics, with built-in scaffolding, engagement, and confidence building literature. I went back to school to be a reading specialist and wrote my masters paper on using comics and pop culture to create deep and analytical readers and writers. I now give this professional development around the country so that no one else has to face an “educator” like my son did. Reading is reading. Comics = literature.

#Therapydogs on @aisbudapest campus during the HS #exam week.There's something truly magical about the calming touch of these beautiful creatures. #MentalWellness

@tipwanleung @aisbudapest Love this idea, Tip!

One word to summarise our #learning #journey together @aisbudapest #celebration #EndOfTheYear #creativity

Four Surefire Techniques for Engaging ELs and Creating ELL Friendly Classrooms @sljournal Still a well loved article and visual. slj.com/story/four-sur…

If you truly want to know what a #multilingual student understands about a topic, let them express their knowledge through all of their languages. #MultilingualMindMapping #Year5

"One career counselor, who was legally blind, told me I faced two difficulties: unlike hers, I have an invisible disability that people don’t see & understand, and adults forget that students with learning differences grow up & still face them." #dyslexia edsource.org/2023/without-s…

@MrStalder We should have one in every room! I love love love that in EAL we don’t give grades. I tell them everything is for practice to help them improve and everything is ‘assessed’ by me but nothing is ‘graded’. They don’t mind taking risks and they appreciate the feedback much more.

Just posted this in my classroom. Every time a student asks the question, they get a ready-made answer. 😆

@ECISMLIE Thanks for hosting!

Thank you to all who joined us last Thursday for our @ECISMLIE Meetup on #Assessment practices for #Multilingual students. We explored different available assessment frameworks, considered how to make them more #accessible for our students & studied the impact upon our #practices

Yay, new books! 📚 I make it a point to not *only* have books for my EAL students in my class library. Any student can find a book to read in my room-helps eliminate stigma around language learning and ‘the EAL classroom’. All students come to read or work in my room. #mll #ell