Teachers plan instruction appropriate for their students.

• Collaborate with colleagues This year, I reorganized the LEP Team to include content-area chairs in an effort to more strategically provide EL support through teachers within their content areas. The idea going forward is to give teachers targeted resources that will also help align the academic language across content areas in order to enhance the interdisciplinary instructional goals of ZGTMMS. In order to make collaborating with ZMS content-area teachers efficient, I continue to use the English Language Development folder in the Team Drive to provide updated information and resources as a means of supporting staff. The information shared with the EL team for dissemination throughout the grade levels AND across the content areas is housed here as well as other common tools and strategies that content-area teachers can easily access to assist them in instructing and assessing ELs. Though I meet with my colleagues individually and in group settings as needed to strategize ways to improve learning and instruction for particular ELs as well as subgroups (newcomers, beginning, transitionals, long-term ELs, former ELs, etc.), I also use other forms of communication to help build capacity among content-area teachers. Email newsletters are one way that I share staff development information and address concerns more broadly that some teachers share individually with me. The Beginning of the Year presentation is another way that I address the most pressing concerns of my colleagues.

• Use data for short and long range planning; • Engage students in the learning process; • Monitor and modify plans to enhance student learning; and • Respond to cultural diversity and learning needs of students.

Our PLT has developed Common Assessments to more strategically target and assess the needs and progress of our students in order to adapt planning, improve student outcomes, and enhance student learning. I have adapted them this year to reflect Digital Competencies while focusing on the ELA standards that most directly impact student performance in their content areas and in a digital environment.