Shawn Slakk, EdD

Providing strategies & supports for language & literacy learners via any content w/ professional learning for those who teach/serve them. Tweets=Shawn

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12th Annual Community-Based HL Schools Conference Oct 3-4, 2025 Registration open. Hybrid Conference on site American University in DC & online. Use promo code EARLY25 to recieve 25% off an in-person ticket through August 31. https://t.co/Wu4jIJEDHI

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@TeamYouTube Thanks,
It has been resolved. I got help from a different group.

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Will you be attending the 11th Annual Coalition of Community-Based Language Schools conference? Register here: https://t.co/fOHByKuFRZ

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@OIGUSPS So, quick question. If the regional center in RIC, VA is meant to improve performance, why did my package that was checked into the facility in RIC, then get sent to Chesapeake, VA (80 miles east) when I live in Chester, VA (<20 miles south)? Now it’s even later than it was.

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Did you catch the latest webinar from #OELA? @ASKNCELA1 ¿Viste el último seminario web de #OELA? #ELfamilyToolkit

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@emilyfranESL @howardcristiane Absolutely! The hidden curriculum of the American education system needs to brought out into the open for everyone.

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@ValentinaESL Such a great example of everyday use.

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@TanKHuynh @CorwinPress Love it!

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Working hard. Reading well and some writing too. Well done students! @RPS_Schools @RichmondHSPTSA

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Working on reading today with Flip-flop Buddies at @RichmondHSPTSA .

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Working on reading today with Flip-flop Buddies at @RichmondHSPTSA .

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I’m pleased to report that I’ve received a SIOP Institute Level 3 Educator. View my verified achievement from @Cal_Linguistics. https://t.co/DrZpHHi69P

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@JayandRagsy @JasonJAnger Just writing it. Sure. Do you discuss it with the class? Refer back to it? Connect it to the actual lesson? If not…?

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@OrlyKlapholz We’ve had this recipe more than 50 years. My great auntie got the recipe from one of her friends who had been making the mix for their Shriners meetings for years before that. It’s so good.

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@OrlyKlapholz Home made Chex Mix with extra Worcestershire sauce and the fancy nut mix with Macadamia nuts. No peanuts please.

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@abrardts How rude. Yes, lazy & inattentive. I can’t count the number of times people get mine wrong. Even people I’ve know for years. It isn’t Sean nor is it Slack.
Glad you stood up for yourself but sorry you had to.
Come on folks. Get it right!

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@MrZachG @George76766831 @MathsImpact For the administrators: It’s an easy short statement. “Hi, we need to see you in the hall. Thanks.” Document it. Then deal w/ it as a contract issue if it doesn’t happen. And yes of course emergencies happen.

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@MrZachG @George76766831 @MathsImpact 1) admin in the halls too please, even if they have to pause a meeting w/ whomever. 2)As a former teacher & administrator union board member no administrator would have been dinged for requiring a teacher to follow their contractual duty.

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@ValentinaESL When I hear that, I say, How? Where’s the explicit evidence?

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@OrlyKlapholz Is it reliable & valid? If it’s an assessment for English literacy to assess an ML’s English literacy, is it doing that or is it assessing some hidden Americana content that the ML may not have had access to?

I’m reminded of an EL “assessment” that was all about Babe the Blue Ox

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@JoseMedinaJr89 Yes, do they walk the walk or just spew the talk?