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Colorado Springs English Language Learner Leadership Academy (ELLLA)

Session One September 15-16, 2009

[|CELA completed template.xls]
 * CELA example**

[|Colorado Springs CELA Template.xls]
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[|Colorado Springs Directions for completing CELA template.doc]
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 * Action Plan Template**
 * Current Reality Desired Future Tool**

Session Three February 2-3, 2010

Session Four, April 6-7, 2010 = = Hello Participants: For credit you will need to respond individually to three of the following questions on your team's page (20 points each; please initial your response) prior to the end of Session Four: = = 1. As you consider the purpose of the English Language Learner Leadership Academy, “//To build your capacity to assist regular education teachers in becoming teachers of language development in order to implement Classroom Instruction That Works with English Language Learners strategies through Shared Leadership//”, to what degree do you believe your team has been able to achieve this purpose? Our Team has 30% success rate so far. LW & CM

2. How has your team’s shared leadership approach to the implementation influenced your ELL initiative? 3. As you engaged your colleagues in professional development designed to support them in becoming teachers of language development to implement Classroom Instruction That Works with ELLs strategies, how did you use the leadereship responsibilities to manage their personal transitions (of those colleagues who would have responded "yes" to any of the following four questions) and the implications of second order change:
 * //For the first time I believe that as a whole the ESL department for District 20 has come together. We now have a plan that puts us all on the same page. It includes involving every student through incorporating best practices strategies for all teachers. We now have a plan that includes main stream teachers. The time at the conference has given us the opportunity to come up with an ELL initiative and how we are going to implement it. MG//**
 * The time at the conference has provided time to build a more cohesive ELL team. The plan includes having a strategy to give tools to teachers that will impact student achievement. TC**
 * a break from the past?
 * inconsistent with organizational norms?
 * incongruent with personal values?
 * requiring new knowledge and skills?

4. As you reflect on the implementation of your ELL initiative, what leadership responsibilities did you find most helpful and how did you apply them in your context? 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? 6. As you reflect on your experience in the English Language Learner Leadership Academy and the implementation of your ELL initiative, what aspects of the experience were most successful and which would you do differently in the future? 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? 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? = = = = = = = = = = = = =Getting Started=
 * //I believe that the implementation of the ELL initiative will influence student achievement at my school. In our initiative we plan to meet with mainstream classroom teacher and review their lessons and provide feedback/support on how to provide accommodations. This will in turn effect how teachers are teaching all students. The evidence that I plan to use to support this is progress monitoring of student achievement. MG//**
 * I think the implementation of the initiative will influence student achievement at my school positively. Teaching the stratagies at staff meeting will put tools into teachers hands to increase Ell student achievement. TC**
 * //Like I mentioned before the ELLLA gave District 20 the opportunity to come together and collaborate. Through this collaboration we were able to develop a plan. It is the first time we have a plan and how we are going to implement it. It set clear guidelines that are going to be attainable and comprehensible to everyone. This plan has clear measures and evidence of success. MG//**
 * The aspects that I found most successful were sharing new ways to increase student achievement and how to come together as a team and build a change initiative. TC**
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