Kelly A. Aldinger

K-12 ESOL teacher in NY.

Advocate for educational equity, cultural responsivity, & inclusion 🌏💡

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I Will Persist... https://t.co/U3NwKRxVEj via @EllBillofRights

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If you need a laugh...take a look at my transitioning level, kindergartener ELL's writing during free choice play time 🤣The power of explicit systematic phonics instruction that encompasses decoding & encoding! Of all the options during play time, he chooses to write ❤️
#ELL

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Title III Funding for English Learners, Explained https://t.co/NnZWKHUthk

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Equity for MLs Begins with Equitable Schedules https://t.co/UK9sYaI9O5

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@ValentinaESL I would highly recommend joining @reading_league collegial community meeting once a month on this topic. Lots of researchers rotating through the panel to discuss #SOR and #EmergentBilinguals

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Something that all Ts need to keep in mind: "understand that people have risked their lives to come to the US in order to give their children a quality education as they struggle against barriers that most of us cannot imagine."
#TESOL #ESL #ELL #MLL

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Have your students submitted their logo submissions for @NYSTESOL 's Student Logo Contest? A great opportunity to showcase ELL/MLL art, with a great cash prize too!

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See the 🧵

[The Reading League @reading_league]

🧵Here is what happened. This shows the percentage of students at or above winter (mid-year) benchmark in each grade level since the work began. Same teachers, different cohorts of kids.

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An Interview With Educator and Author Jonathan Kozol https://t.co/ekEwqhhNC2

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Teacher preparation programs need to evolve so that candidates enter the teaching field prepared with knowledge and practices to effectively teach reading to ALL students.

California should follow Mississippi’s lead on reading instruction https://t.co/myLpw6ONZo via @mydesert

[TenaciousKat (find me on 🧵s) @tenaciousKat]

I am teaching at a school which has implemented high quality explicit instruction K-6. My Year 2 class is on average higher than previous 3-6 classes. This is not ‘because of SES’. This is not ‘because kids are just different’. It is because they have been carefully, 1/

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Succinctly stated

[Sounds & Syllables @SoundSyllable]

"The output of the word identification system, the word's pronunciation and meaning features, is the input to the comprehension system." Perfetti & Helder

A neat summary of why decoding is key to text comprehension.

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Nonstop From Classroom to Classroom, an ESOL Teacher's Day - what an apt summary of an #ESOL teacher's day https://t.co/WAEttQxnmn

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Where morphology, semantics, & phonetics intersect

"Teaching Ss to quickly identify &“peel off” prefixes & suffixes within words can help students begin to recognize both pronunciation & meaning of larger chunks as they encounter more unfamiliar words."

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[Dwayne Reed @TeachMrReed]

One day, you will have a job that you enjoy doing AND it will be a place where you are appreciated for the value you bring. Keep going. 🖤

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[Dexter the Dog @dexter_doggie]

I made some earrings for frustrated professors. #readthesyllabus #AcademicTwitter @ReadTheSyllabus

[edutopia @edutopia]

“Language is tied to identity. You don't have to give up your identity of who you are in order to learn English,” says newcomers teacher Efraín Tovar. See how this educator supports newcomer students’ English proficiency—along with their sense of belonging and identity.

[U.S. Department of Education @usedgov]

As #Ramadan begins, these tips can help school communities support students who are observing.

[Zac Bauermaster @ZBauermaster]

School should be a place that kids look forward to going. Adults too.

It begins and ends with leadership.

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Ramadan Kareem , my friends
#RamadanKareem