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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?


 * The District 20 team has worked together to implement our initiatives. We purposed to create a newly formatted English Language Plan for our district and implement the plan for the 2009-2010 school year. Initially, we met to review and assess the plan from 2008-09. Then we worked together to revise and reformat the plan. We published the new plan and completed a plan for each ESL student, implementing it for the current school year. We feel that our efforts were worthwhile, and our team was able to accomplish our objective.**

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?


 * Visibility -- We are reaching out to other schools to provide support with the ELP and during testing periods we created more visibility for the ELL program.**

8. As you reflect upon the four English Language Learner Leadership Academy sessions, what concepts / approaches did you find the most helpful? **First and Second order change to remember the impact the change might have** Which one’s were least helpful? **Assets --**