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=Welcome to the GBC ESL Learning Team Wikispace!= This is a space for Teach for America Corps Members who are ESL teachers in Greater Boston to share resources and best practices.

June 15, 2012 - UPDATE!
Thank you all for a fantastic series of Learning Teams during the 2011-2012 school year! It has been truly inspiring to collaborate with all of you, share best practices, and learn from one another. We look forward to working with many of you again next year and welcoming the 2012 ESL Corps Members to this professional learning community.

All content - including presentations, agendas, and materials - from each 2011-2012 Learning Team has now been posted. You can access these resources using the navigation bar to the left.

Learning Team Vision
Our vision for the 2011-2012 ESL Learning Team is to create a collaborative working group among all ESL Corps Members. Through this group, we plan to:
 * Share best practices
 * Learn new strategies
 * Create and share new resources
 * Learn about developments in the ESL / ELL world

We kicked off our series of seven workshops at the December ACC on December 10, 2011. We will host 6 subsequent workshops (one per month) over the course of the next six months. You will have the opportunity to **select 4 of the 6 workshops** that you feel are most relevant to your teaching context and needs. We have the flexibility to differentiate our workshops to make them even more relevant and useful; for example, for some workshops we may divide teachers by Elementary/Secondary, students' ELD levels, teaching context (push-in, pull-out, self-contained, SEI), etc.

How to Use This Site

 * This Wikispace is editable by all members.
 * We will post a page for each workshop on the navigation bar to the left. On these pages we will include workshop agendas, presentation links, and relevant documents.
 * There is also a Group Discussion Board where you can post your questions, ideas, thoughts, etc. and, most importantly, SHARE YOUR RESOURCES! We will create general topics to guide discussions, but this space is yours - feel free to post what you need!

Contact us
Allison Balter, GBC 2010, allison.e.balter@gmail.com (3rd & 4th Grade Newcomer, Guilmette Elementary, Lawrence) Lindsey Mayer, GBC 2009, ljanemayer@gmail.com (Middle School ESL, all levels, Garfield Middle School, Revere)