Eye on Transformation

Since students may not have access to email at home and because some schools do not issue school email accounts, one solution may be to create sub accounts. How it works: You sign up for a Gmail account. This is your teacher account, not a personal email account. Add new other email addresses to the account in the settings menu. Each student should be assigned a sub account linked to your teacher account. To create these sub-accounts, add a plus sign and the student's name after your name and

If anyone is interested in learning more about my colleague's experience with founding and running the Latino Mix club, please contact me or leave a comment.

I mentioned that Susan Fitzell provided her workshop participants with a form that could be used to keep track of adaptations during planning... She has made a PDF version available on her website. (Find it under the "Differentiating Instruction, IEP Adaptations and Gifted Strategies" category.) I will work on a modified version specifically for ELL classrooms and post that here by next week.

I found a list of online translators (scroll down, the list is on the left in a baby blue field), but I can't vouch for their worth. If you have documents that you need translated and are loathe to use one of these, I would suggest: contacting a Spanish teacher in your school district for help... asking your students' parents to help... contacting the foreign language teacher preparation professors at colleges or universities near you... looking for documents that other schools have already written

The other text that I used in the ICP program through IUPUI was the CALLA handbook. Anna Uhl Chamot and J. Michael O'Malley (1994) Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Pp. x + 340 ISBN 0-201-53963-2 (paper)Here is a review of the CALLA Handbook by TESL-EJ