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====These pages will allow us to extend our immediate Professional Learning Community to include all junior high level ESOL teachers in the district. A wiki by nature can only be successful when multiple people contribute to its development and use, so please jump in an add your input. ====

Goals:

 * Create a consistent curriculum across all campuses.
 * Collaborate on "TAKS-n-ated" novel and short story assessments to increase student readiness for TAKS without straining our individual workloads.
 * Share lesson materials and lesson plan ideas more readily.
 * Improve upon existing teacher-created materials.
 * Provide a comfortable, readily-available place to raise concerns, ask for help, and develop solutions together.
 * Unite ESOL teachers who are alone on their campuses.

__**Functions**:__

 * ====Discussion Page:====
 * Continue our discussion about novel selection. We especially want to focus on discussing justification for using a novel: why do our students need to read this novel? What objectives can we meet using this material?
 * Combine brilliance. Wouldn't it be great if we could get everyone's lesson ideas in the same place? Here, we can discuss and refine our lessons, and even divvy up the preparation work.
 * Pages: (All members of this wiki can add pages.)
 * Create a new page for each "TAKS-n-ated" assessment and allow other teachers to contribute.
 * Post lesson documents and files.
 * Collaborate on new, group-created lessons.
 * Support instructional technology integration by sharing lesson resources.