I'm in the second year in my role as ELD Coordinator, which requires a wide variety of skills to successfully manage approximately 140 students and four teachers (yearly). Primarily, I manage all four ELL teachers at the high school (which includes myself), coaching and teaching them in strategies and lessons for their classroom practice with newcomer language learners, LTEL students (Long-Term English Learners), and students that are near-ready to be reclassified as English Proficient. Additionally, I coordinate ELPAC training, proctoring, and testing, which includes a variety of networking (within the school and with Sonoma Valley Unified School District) to make certain that those 140-150 students are ELPAC-tested in the four domains of reading, writing, speaking and listening in English every spring. As well, I coordinate Initial ELPAC testing for newcomers to our district at the high school, and am in charge of tracking student data and progress (their grades, Star-E reading scores, SBAC scores, and Lexile/Percentile range scores) in order to ascertain their readiness for RFEP status (Reclassified Fluent English Proficient). I interface regularly with the parents of our ELs and communicate via email and ELAC meetings (ELAC stands for English Learner Advisory Committee), on which committee I regularly stand as the school EL representative. I advise teachers and present ELPAC information to the entire staff and keep them informed on testing dates, their students' progress, and any strategies they can use to support their EL students' learning in their specific subject.Most recent training was 10/25/23-- the program is Ellevation, an online data tools management system for student data analysis, reporting, collaboration and instruction. Additionally our EL program at Sonoma High uses HMH English 3D program (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt),an online-accessible curriculum for Eng Lang learners. Training w/HMH is ongoing throughout school year.

During my 16 years at Sonoma Valley High, I have taught English to all four grade levels in English: 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th. I have also taught 10th and 12th grade Honors English classes (5 years) and 2 levels of ELD (2.5 years). The CP and Honors class requirements include a minimum of 4 novels/plays per year (6-8 works for Honors), essays, poems, articles, teaching research paper skills and publication of the same, plagiarism ethics, online/web skills and ethics, incorporating art and history cross-cultural curriculum to enliven and enrich literature studies. This job also includes classroom management, student/parent/teacher interaction for student success, and intense, day-to-day conferencing, lecture, study skills coaching one-to-one with 110 students (2023-2024 attendance roll student count). I incorporate peer interaction, group work, peer editing, role-play (for play-acting Shakespeare' and Arthur Miller), read-aloud, Cornell notetaking, essay outlining, and more study scaffolding techniques.Reading this year: Hamlet, Morrison's Song of Solomon, Shelley's Frankenstein, Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, and Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Honors has already read Brave New World for their summer assignment.See elsewhere in my profile for ELD curriculum details.This job also requires me to deliver instruction through various educational platforms, as follows: 1. All Google platforms, esp. Google Classroom (used daily), Docs, Forms2. Clever.com for single sign-on to almost all platforms.3. Renaissance Learning (for Star-E reading testing/data/scores)4. TurnItIn.com (plagiarism detector)5. Kami (for online article & document annotation)6. Nearpod for delivering Powerpoint info & facilitating student interactive activities w/in slideshow6. HMH (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) for English 3D (ELD curriculum)7. Newsela for grade-level-specific reading (articles, article sets, and more)8. Kahoot, Quizlet, Quizizz (games for in-class & home study)

TAUGHT: total of 19 years to present, started out teaching grades 6-8 (English and computer science). Continued for 13 more years teaching grades 9-12 in English/Language Arts College Prep and Honors English.SPECIFIC COMMON CORE STANDARDS taught in my classes:*writing: lit analysis and interp*writing: argument (persuasive) claim/counterclaim*writing: informative, narrative, creative*pre-writing, drafting, editing, proofreading, peer sharing, revising*research skills/research paper/annotated bibliography*Google Doc/Slides/Classroom/Sheets document sharing*editing and annotation skills*MLA source citation (includes internet ethics)*speaking skills using department and self-written rubrics*10th Honors class includes a Western philosophy component*12th Honors focus on overarching theme of existentialist thought/philosophyTAUGHT: 1 year Independent Study, US and World History (10th and 11th grades) concurrent with 9-11 English Inde. Study.TAUGHT: Basic English (2 sections) summer school, June/July 2008Please see my teacher webpage:

COURSES TAUGHT:*Freshman English*Junior Humanities

Instructional Assistant, Read Naturally Lab

Taught middle-school English, grades 6-8Taught Macintosh computer skills in self-run Mac lab