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Friday, November 19 • 1:45pm - 3:15pm
How ELM Coaches Ensure Quality Service for Els during the Pandemic

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ESL teacher leadership serves as a mechanism for ensuring that the language learning needs of ELs are met in every classroom throughout the school day. COVID-19 highlighted the importance of ESL teacher leaders in schools in ways that could not have been predicted. This panel will present how English Learners in the Mainstream (ELM) coaches supported their general education colleagues to best serve ELs during a time of global crisis.

Speakers
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Molly Galloway

Molly Galloway has been an ELD teacher for 20 years in district 196.  She attended Minnesota State University for her undergraduate degree in Spanish and ESL licensure K-12.  She attended St. Mary’s University for a Master’s in Teaching degree.  Molly has been an ELM coach... Read More →
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Jenna Hafner

ELM Coach, EL Teacher, and Department Head, Willmar Senior High School
Jenna Hafner is an ELM coach, EL teacher, and department head at Willmar Senior High School. She earned her bachelor's degree in Spanish education at MSUM and her master's in TESOL at SCSU. Her interests include developing reading skills for SLIFE and building academic language in... Read More →
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Amy Hewett-Olatunde

ESL Teacher and ELM instructional coach, St. Paul Public Schools
Dr. Amy Hewett-Olatunde, EdD, EdS has been an ESL teacher for St. Paul Public Schools since 1999, as well as an ELM instructional coach. She also teaches post-secondary ELs, pre-service ESL teachers, and is a freelance writer. She is a former president of MinneTESOL and the 2015-16... Read More →
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Meagan Reissy

Director and ESL Contracted Faculty, Prek-12 Charter School and Concordia University
Meagan Reissy is the Director of Language and Intervention Programming for a Prek-12 Charter School in St. Paul and also is an ESL Contracted Faculty of Practice in the Departments of Graduate & Undergraduate Teacher Education at Concordia University. Meagan has been with the ELM... Read More →


Friday November 19, 2021 1:45pm - 3:15pm CST
Meeting Room 7