The FIRST step to an effective New Arrivals Program supporting newly arrived EAL/D learners is to create a SAFE & SECURE learning environment. #aussieEd #tesoloz

The extraordinary Cindy sharing her heart & expertise. sbs.com.au/language/filip… (sbs.com.au/language/filip…) sbs.com.au/filipino Cindy Valdez Public Ed Foundation Paul Somers NSW Secondary Principals' Council New South Wales Primary Principals’ Association johnqgoh

johnqgoh Prue Car MP Murat Dizdar I’m very biased towards EALD, as you know 😁 In my own ‘Utopia’, and this is acknowledging the current teacher shortage, our EALD colleagues would not be used as ‘casuals’ and the EALD programs continue to run and are supported in EVERY school every single day so that we’re able

.@ATESOLNSW Council 2023. Meet our growing team 😇 #aussieEd

.@ATESOLNSW 🎉 50 years of helping! 🍾 We are celebrating our Jubilee this year! Pls SAVE THE DATE: 24 June @ NSW Teachers Fed, Surry Hills 2-5pm. Registration info coming your way. Watch this space 🎉 #aussieEd #tesoloz

Concord West PS have hosted a theatre company that built a yurt to perform a play about refugee children. The installation led to many unique learning opportunities for the students. It isn’t every day that you get to have a yurt in your hall! education.nsw.gov.au/news/latest-ne…

.Scan Vol 42, ‘EALD bumper’ Issue 2 .ATESOLnsw ‘s Margaret T on arguments, .Cindy Valdez on the arts, Gill P’s multilingual story boxes & from one of our supporters, Joanne Rossbridge ‘Taming the Dragon b4 Reading’! issuu.com/scannswdoe/doc… via Issuu #aussieEd #ell #EAL #tesoloz

Feel proud & privileged to have been lead by 2 exceptional EALD educators Cindy Valdez & Gill Pennington 🙏🏻

.ATESOLnsw An article I wrote for .SBS Australia to enlighten teachers why the use of home languages in the classroom is crucial, multilingualism should be encouraged, is now live: “Best of both worlds - how to teach English whilst supporting home languages” sbs.com.au/language/engli…

How does art #MakeThinkingVisible for EAL/D learners? In our new issue, Cindy Valdez considers how responding to art can develop skills of risk taking, communication & critical thinking: education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-l… Cindy Valdez #AussieEd @ATESOLNSW #TesolOz #EALDconnect #k12 #EdChat

A very proud moment for my school with former student Teresa Polias becoming the 1st female to be inducted into the Sydney FC Hall of Fame. Murat Dizdar Prue Car MP Sydney FC Sydney FC Women Public Ed Foundation Teresa Polias

Our Book In A Jar project is kicking off!

Neuroscientist Reid Lyon offers 10 maxims about what we know about how children learn to read: bit.ly/3Kf3WtS. The research support for these claims is here: bit.ly/3rNCPQf (pdf)

Part of our literacy focus was vocabulary! Really enjoyed teaching this unit about natural disasters.. so many great books available that helps us understand the impact of these catastrophic events (and also what we can do to minimise it!)

Cindy Valdez Joanne Rossbridge Eg ‘Not cute.’ -Philip Bunting, ‘The Shack that Dad built’ -Elaine Russell, ‘This Small Blue Dot’ -Zeng Sworder, ‘Mallee Sky’ -J Toering & T Harricks #tesoloz #aussieEd

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EALD Strategy Cowpasture Network: ‘Designing Vocab for Purposeful Learning’ EALD Project PL #1 w/ Bev Derewianka Bonnyrigg HS w/ 18 schools (inc Fairfield PS) 62 educators, inc 14 EAL/D Ed Leaders & advisors, present. TY for saying ‘YES’. #BetterTogether #aussieEd #tesoloz

Empathy, resilience, and the courage to ask difficult (reflective) questions. Listening effectively. Placing students at the center. Meeting your colleagues where they are in their learning and teaching journeys. #leadership #empathy #wellbeing Looking forward to it 😇

.Marianne Siokos ‘just under 50 teachers from (now) 20 schools 😇. “Using tier 2 and 3 vocabulary for purposeful writing” PL Day 2 w/ Joanne Rossbridge Adapt, enhance (or NoT, and start from scratch) Units of work: be critical. How ‘explicit’ are the units in teaching writing?#tesoloz #vocab

IF the expectation is to use the (Eng) units of work, THEN you (must) know our texts as this helps with selecting vocabulary to teach and WHY? And what about grammar? Well… vocab and grammar are NOT inseparable. Ever. #tesoloz #vocabed #writing