About Us

D. Garafalo, L. Stevens, Katie Knapp, Paul Gugel, & B. Peng

The Northern Region ENL PLC began in 2012 when Laura Stevens agreed to lead the group for the purpose of providing support to ENL professionals who may feel isolated and alone in a small rural or suburban setting. Pat Marzola joined us in 2017 as Planning Coordinator.

Our desire is to continuously build and expand a culture of collaboration and community while increasing our sphere of influence with ENL professionals, students, families, the community, general education teachers and education leaders.

Laura Stevens, Thought Leader Contact: lstevens@oswego.org

Laura, an ENL teacher for the Oswego City School District, has been educating ELLs/MLLs for more than 20 years. She led the Northern Region ENL PLC in 2012, a group of over 120 ESOL professionals in upstate New York. Laura has written articles and spoken in both college classrooms and at the 2009 NYS Migrant Education Conference about PLCs and advocating for ELL success. In the summer of 2015, Laura participated in an ENL panel discussion as part of a Regional ENL Symposium at Indian River High School. In the fall of 2016, Laura presented at the NYS TESOL Convention in Syracuse. In 2017, Laura spoke at the NYSTESOL conference in Syracuse, NY. Laura received a B.A. in both K-12 TESOL and English from SUNY Oswego and holds an M.A. in TESOL from Le Moyne College. Laura has a very popular ENL website located at https://sites.google.com/a/oswego.org/my-enl-page/. In addition, we created the ESL Rural Mural website for rural and suburban school leaders in New York State.

Making Grammar Relevant Again.docx - Google Drive An Elementary ENL Co-Teaching Success Story

Pat Marzola, Planning Coordinator Contact: pmarzola@westgenesee.org

Pat obtained a B.A. in Psychology from St. John Fisher College; She minored in Elementary Education, Sociology and Spanish and also studied Italian.

She has an M.S. in Education from Binghamton University; her specialization was Early Childhood Education, and she obtained permanent N-6 certification. Pat later took courses at both Le Moyne College and Syracuse University to obtain her TESOL (K-12) professional certification. Over the years she taught kindergarten, third grade and pre-school in the Binghamton area and the Syracuse City School District. Pat began teaching ENL in the West Genesee CSD in 2012 where she has worked at three different West Genesee elementary schools.

Culture Fair-West Genesee CSD.pptx - Google Drive 2019

2024 Article and Video-Cultural Fair

Learning Over the Summer Takes on Many Forms for ENL Teachers

English as a New Language at LHS (google.com)

Integrating School & Community for ELLs

Katie Knapp, ENL Coordinator, Liverpool High School

Katie Knapp (@MrsKnappENL) / Twitter

ENL with Miss Sacco (google.com)

Jenna Sacco (@MissSacco_ENL) / Twitter

Jenna Sacco, Liverpool CSD

Migrant Education / Home (citiboces.org)

https://sites.google.com/a/oswego.org/my-enl-page/home/area-migrant-outreach-immigrant-resources