Meet Me In St. Louis

National Staff Development Council, annual conference, St. Louis, MO (December 2009)
SESSION DETAILS: C19 DEVELOPING A COURSE ON STRATEGIES TO TEACH ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS:

Hear how teachers at Wheaton Woods Elementary School in Rockville, MD, developed and delivered a course for the faculty on research-based strategies for English language learners. Delve into the process and practice some of the strategies. Leave with a plan to replicate this highly successful course.

Deborah Firestone, Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD, and Michelle Pace, Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD
Strand: Race, Class, and Culture

And yet another session, too!
E13 EMPOWERING COLLABORATIVE TEAMS THROUGH EFFECTIVE FACILITATION

Empower your team through effective facilitation. Learn processes and skills to facilitate collaborative work, and match these processes and skills to outcomes and audiences to maximize appropriate stakeholder involvement. Reflect on collaborative work, and learn to use a measurement tool to guide progress toward effective facilitation.

Linda Natale, Teach for Learning, Gaithersburg, MD
Margaret Hart, Teach for Learning, Darnestown, MD
Elizabeth Sandall, Montgomery County Public Schools, Germantown, MD
Carol Starr, Teach for Learning, Rockville, MD
Strand: Fundamentals of Professional Learning

Imagine our surprise to see the above conference listings, when here we thought all along that there was a Travel Freeze instituted by MCPS! At least, that's what they told the County Council earlier this fall.