Sarah Lundy

14:28, Nov 13, 2015

I have struggled with this one for years!

As a brand new teacher with a large population of students identified as English Language Learners, I begged my district to allow me to use my discretionary classroom supply funds towards Conversational Spanish classes to keep my skills sharp enough to communicate with parents. The answer was, "No" and the classes I took on my own never counted towards PDU.

I still wonder why this PD opportunity wasn't "allowed" while we simultaneous struggled as a district to better address the learning needs of our Latino students?