Boosting Achievement: The ESL Podcast

Derek Rhodenizer returns! This episode offers many insights into personalized PD opportunities and Derek shares how he created, modeled and ran a personalized PD system for this staff.

Carol celebrates students with interruptions in education who are graduating and passing state assessments. She is joined by two students who help explain some of the support they get and give through One World Club.

Carol offers advice and concrete suggestions for supporting our students who may not meet end of year requirements. All of this with a healthy dose of inspiration!

ESL Leaders talk about Comprehensible Input and Strategies in an ELLchat_BkClub discussion. Allyson Newton leads the group in breaking down these two components of the SIOP Model and answering questions from our twitter PLN.

Carol answers questions from ESL and content teachers who are working through a book study of Boosting Achievement. The questions are about working with students with limited education.

Carol breaks down the practical techniques that make it possible to teach grade level writing to emergent writers.

Positive outcomes of honoring voice, choice and reflection.

Carol offers reflections from NABE2019 along with two different professional development sessions you can use for yourself or with your teachers.

Karina Chap (@BilingualPride) and Carol (@MsSalvaC) give you a powerful opportunity to help English learners and their families. They talk about what is really happening in her Texas border town and how we can support migrant families who are in desperate need.

A special voicEd Radiothon version of Boosting Achievement ESL Podcast.

Carol talks with @JudieHaynes and @KarenNemethEdM about their very popular #ELLchat. They discuss it as a hashtag, a twitter chat and also as the backbone of the EL PLN all week long.

We all need to step up if want things to improve for ELs. Hear from Carol, Derek Rhodenizer & Jennifer Hunter Dillon (@italkliteracy) on why you should be a part of #MADPD.

Carol explains a unit of study that takes students from examining historical events to taking action and showing kindness. This episode offers a step by step for the first lesson, ideas for taking the thinking to higher levels and links to many resources. Throughout the learning the focus is listening, speaking, reading and writing in the target language.

If you need to start over, this show is for you. Carol breaks down her 5 most practical ideas to get an ESL classroom back on track PLUS a Bonus Tip!. Any teacher will benefit from this show as most of the suggestions work for all students. Get ready for a reboot!

Stephen Hurley, Ramona Mahberg and Jen Cort join Carol to lift up Paul McGuire as a thought leader and champion of underprivileged youth. The group discusses gratitude and offers many take aways for teachers of ELs.

Author and consultant Tonya Singer (@TonyaWardSinger) joins Carol (@MsSalvac) to talk about how we can support English Learners with excellence. Tonya has some innovative ideas about instruction and how we hold the bar high for ELs!

Tan Huyhn (@TanELLclassroom) & Deborah Brey (@ELL_Deb) join Carol to think through ways to deliver your own #VirtuEL style online conference. Resources & ideas are shared plus a special cameo by Derek Rhodenizer of #MADPD

Carol & Derek try a new way to podcast. That build this one outside the blocks of time a la @noasbobs!

Everyone can participate in the writing process. Carol reflects on how this might look for ELs in their content classes and also in grade level Language Arts.

Sara and Carol explore ideas to try when ELs don't seem to be progressing. They also share ideas for teaching newcomers at grade level in the ELA secondary classroom. Sarah can be found on Twitter: @SaraSparks21 Carol can be found on Twitter: @mssalvac

in this episode Carol and Kenzie Twitchell discuss more classroom activities that boost literacy and language development for ELs.

In this episode Carol takes Kenzie Twitchell through the steps of Language Experience Approach and why it's powerful for ELs.

Sarah Williams is a new teacher. She and Carol discuss activities for the first week and how to find your cohort online.

Some of your English Learners will not pass some assessments or classes needed for graduation. Talisa Harris (@tharris3esl) joins Carol to discuss the practices they both employ in their high schools to move these kiddos toward success.