AL ELL PDA Cohort II Secondary (Year Two Implementation)

Location: Shelby County Board Of Edcation
Columbiana, Alabama

BMS ELL PDA Team Members Present: Lori Ashbaugh, Maria Christina Burgos, Lee Hasting, Joy Martin, Meleighsa McLaughlin, Johnnie Renick, and Leslie Thompson

Topics of interest:

Biggest Hit Implementation - discussion of which SIOP strategies have been most successful during ths school year. At Brookhaven Middle School, the use of interctive notebooks and using interactive graphic organizers, aka foldables, to teach essential information of content has been extremely successful.

Summer Reading to prevent loss of reading gains made during the year. Check out http://www.scholastic.com/ Read for the Record- a summer reading program where students sign up and record books read to try to break a world record as a student body.