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5. Do you believe the implementation of your ELL initiative influenced student achievement at your school? What evidence to you have to support your response? I think that our initiative has helped student achievement, and will continue to do so the more training and time with implementation with the students. As for evidence, we've only had a mid-year assessments, and really need to wait until the end of the year assessments to make that determination.

7. Do you have evidence of changes in teacher practices or behaviors that you attribute to the implementation of your ELL initiative or the English Language Learner Leadership Academy?

Many of our teachers have incorporated ideas from the various professional developments that have been offered in our district. As the ESL teacher, I see teachers using the skills in their rooms. One example, a third grade teacher was using several of the vocabulary strategies suggested by Marzano.

8. As you reflect upon the four English Language Learner Leadership Academy sessions, what concepts / approaches did you find the most helpful? Which one’s were least helpful? = = = = = = The leadership portion of this workshop has been interesting, and will hopefully be more useful in the following year as we go forward with our action plan in our building. In addition, the 9 strategies for English Language Learners, and having the book as a resource will continue to be useful in the following year.