Budget Requests

Thanks for all the budget requests I got! I am working through them and will let you know what we will be able to include for next year. At this point it looks like allocations are down for ELL by about 10,000, so I will have to make some careful choices.... Let me know if you have input about the most important things we do-- Library nights? College Night? Summer school... what do you think?

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I wanted to let you know I got some new resources about SIOP. One excellent one is 99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP Model by MaryEllen Vogt and Jana Echevarria. It has some great ideas for regular ed teachers...It is in my office if you want to borrow it. One idea I really like is the Magic Button strategy. You give the kids "buttons"-- one says "I'm thinking" and one "I got it!" It helps the students to value the thinking process and lets  you know when they are ready to answer. It may help with those kids who shout out answers.... Any one else have other ideas?