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Liberty district partners with ESL nonprofit to enhance student outcomes

Posted 3/13/23

Liberty Elementary School District announced its partnership with a nonprofit to promote accelerated learning for students whose first language is not English.

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Liberty district partners with ESL nonprofit to enhance student outcomes

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Liberty Elementary School District announced its partnership with a nonprofit to promote accelerated learning for students whose first language is not English.

Quality Teaching for English Learners is a nonprofit that creates  academic curricula while working with educators to provide them with tools to accelerate language development, academic literacy, and disciplinary knowledge for English learners.

On March 1, teachers from Freedom, Blue Horizons, and Rainbow Valley elementary schools collaborated with a QTEL coach and district leaders in a lesson-planning session to enhance learning objectives for English learners.

The next day the team implemented the learning objectives to learn and refine.

The long-term goal is to understand theories of learning within the scope of language development and recognize how these theoretical ideas are utilized and integrated into classroom practice.

“Collaborative coaching for our English Language Learners, and all students, is essential to ensuring that our students are receiving the best and latest instructional strategies to meet each child’s individual needs,” said Carrie Wilmot, a second-grade teacher at Blue Horizons Elementary School.

Liberty Elementary serves portions of Goodyear and Buckeye.