West Aurora’s very own Profe_Aponte presented at Harvard today for the 10th annual Heritage Spanish Symposium. We’re so proud of you, Melissa!

You’ll see #sealofbiliteracy signs popping up in yards in West Aurora School District 129 over the next week as teachers deliver signs to nearly 200 #BiliterateBlackhawks. We’re proud of our students and their commitment to language skills…plus they can earn up to 12 college credits for the award!

Congrats to the Biliterate Blackhawks Class of 2023! Tonight we awarded 191 students seals or commendations in 11 different languages, some in two languages!

🎉Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hiscock, principal at West Aurora High School, District 129, for being named the 2023 Kane County Educator of the Year.⭐ West Aurora School District 129 #eoty47 #education #k12 #teacher

Congratulations Mr.Williams-PM&W!!!

Missed the Bilingual Parents Summit? Attended and want a refresher, or just want to share? Select sessions, including the keynote from Illinois Superintendent Tony Sanders are now available on the Bilingual Parents Video Library: youtube.com/@bilingualpare…

Leveraging the Science of Learning in the Classroom with Shane Saeed — ASCD Professional Learning Community shar.es/afQHdn @saeed_shane ASCD @ASCDcommunities #edchat #edutwitter #EduGladiators #edreform #edleadership #edtech #teachertwitter #K12 #highered

It's #MathMonday, and we're thinking about culturally & linguistically responsive math instruction! Mark your calendars for a FREE PD credit workshop this week on this important topic: irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/minds…

Kaneland High School is looking for a dynamic instructional leader with a commitment to SBG, PLCs, MTSS, and personalized learning to join our leadership team and awesome learning community. It is always great to be a Knight. illinoiseducationjobbank.org/Job-Posting/14…

The 1st "Full Curriculum" PM&M2 class (not pictured- Nando Aguilar). These 3 guys are going to Atlanta for SkillsUSA NLSC23 in June and have created/designed/made so much this past year. Future engineers and world-chargers, to say the least! #GSD #weisnercenter West Aurora School District 129 GCAMP

Meant to post yesterday! Way to go Elk Grove High Sch. Ss-- Friday we got to celebrate our 42 exited #ELs, not to mention my many wonderful conversations with all our EL Ss about growth and hitting other benchmarks. Abi Diaz @EGPrinciPaul Next step, #SealofBiliteracy!

Our Wildcats at Neuqua have graduated! Great ceremony celebrating these graduates. They are Indian Prairie! Indian Prairie 204 Neuqua Valley High School

Sentence expansion is a wonderful strategy to: 1. develop students’ academic writing skills 2. process content

Argo High School just set a school record for the number of students who achieved the Illinois Seal of Biliteracy. ow.ly/sCoB50Pb36x

Sentence expansion teaches students how to write more detailed complex and compound sentences. Learn more in our #ELL strategy library! colorincolorado.org/sentence-expan… #ELLchat #MLL #MLLchat Tan K Huynh (he/his) 🇱🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 @easkelton Image: Allison Shelley

ICYMI: Supporting Newcomer Students: Resource Gallery | colorincolorado.org/ell-newcomer-r… #ELL #ELLchat #MLL #MLLchat

Narratives are how we build collective efficacy, and they must be built together. If your team doesn’t help construct the story, they won’t believe in its ending. #Leadership #EdChat #EdLeaders

I’m loving using the tabs feature in Google Docs! 🙌 A million bonus points to Google if we could print all the tabs with a single click ✅ and use “ctrl f” across multiple tabs for total use instances without clicking through each tab✅ Google Workspace