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Project ALL - All Language Learners
Title III - Project ALL has been a professional development program at the Lynch School of Education (LSOE) at Boston College that prepared pre-service and in-service teachers to become qualified to teach English Language Learners (ELLs). Funded by a $1,500,000 grant from the Office of English Language Acquisition of the US Department of Education, Project ALL also supported faculty within LSOE who supported the preparation of teachers to work with ELLs. Project ALL will be concluding in September 2007.

Professor Maria Brisk headed the Title III-Project ALL program and its efforts to equip all pre and in-service teachers with the pedagogical content knowledge and practical experience to serve the increasing number of ELLs both locally and throughout the nation. The TELL program and its initial support through Project ALL aims to improve instruction for ELLs by increasing connections between theory and practice.

TELL Certificate Program
The TELL certificate program is designed to help teachers meet current Massachusetts state guidance on the preparation of teachers qualified to teach ELLs by addressing the four categories outlined by the state. For more information link to http://www.doe.mass.edu/ell/guidance_
laws.html
and download the pdf file entitled "Updated Guidance on qualifications for Teacher in Sheltered English Immersion Classrooms. June 15, 2004." Or download this document directly.

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NEWS and INFORMATION

New Title III Professional Development Program Grant Awarded
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  BC's LSOE has been awarded $1.49 million to fund a new project entitled Teaching Academic Language in the Content Areas: Enhancing Achievement for English Language Learners (Project TALCA). As Project ALL comes to a close, Project TALCA will enable LSOE to expand on our work of preparing teachers to work effectively with ELLs. Click for more information on this grant's objectives as well as graduate student scholarship and internship opportunities.

MELA-O information
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  Massachusetts English Language Assessment-Oral (MELA-O) is the assessment that is used to evaluate the English speaking and listening skills of limited English proficient (LEP) students. Learn more...

Reimbursements
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  Graduate students who have received the TELL (Teaching English Language Learners) certificate program scholarship are eligible to be reimbursed for TELL course textbooks up to $200. Please use the required form and submit it to Annie Homza.


Title III Project ALL Past Events
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  Speaker: Meg Gebhard
Title: Supporting critical academic literacy practices for ELLs and their teachers
Speaker: Donaldo Macedo
Title: The Poisoning of Cultural and Ethnic Identities

Speakers: Carola Suárez Orozco & Marcelo M. Suárez Orozco
Title: Moving Stories: The Cultural Psychology of Immigrant Youth
Speaker: Mariela M. Páez
Title: English Language Proficiency and Language Diversity among Immigrant Students

Employment Opportunity
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  ESL coach
-a Boston public school
Summer 2007 ESL teaching position
-The Fessenden School, West Newton, MA
ESL or SEI positions
-The Somerville Public Schools
--posted on April 23, 2007