1. April 21st, 2017 Yakima, Washington
Welcome! WABE Secondary ELL Special Interest Group (SIG) Annual Meeting
April 21st, 2017
Yakima, Washington

2. Agenda Welcome & Introductions Business: Review Mission Statement
Position Nominations and Voting
Calendar
Brainstorming:
Affinity Mapping Activity

3. Introductions Please share: Name District / Organization
Role & one reason you love your job

4. Mission & Goals of Secondary SIG
Our mission is to support, collaborate and advocate to improve the education of secondary English language learners.
Goals :
Increase secondary focused sessions at annual WABE conference
Better develop an online space for sharing resources and collaborating
Collaborate and Highlight “brightspots” across the state of SIG focus areas

5. Secondary ELL SIG Areas of Focus

6. WABE SIG Leadership Positions
Co-Chair – Allyson Kemp (Highline)
Co-Chair – Thad Williams (Bellevue)
Secretary – Kate Moriarty (North Kitsap)
Resource Manager – Mary Martinez-Wenzl (Education Northwest)

7. Position Nominations & Voting Procedures
Open Positions:
Co-Chair –
Secretary –
Resource Manager –
Open nominations
Each nomination needs a “second”
If multiple nominations for same position, a paper vote will take place. The candidate receiving the most votes will be selected.

8. WABE Institute in Vancouver, WA-January 2018
Focus Areas:
Dual Language-emphasis on secondary
Secondary ELL
Intersection of DL and ELL

9. Bright Spots
A ‘bright spot’ is something exciting and innovative your district is doing to support secondary ELLs that you think is worth highlighting. It can be something you’ve done, are working on now, or something in the works.
Take a few minutes to write down some bright spots on the lined sticky notes and please identify your district.
Share in a small group.

10. Affinity Mapping
What is a bright spot you or someone in your district could present about at the WABE Institute in January?
Write one bright spot (topic) per post it note. Put your name on each post it note
Move into groups of 6
In SILENCE put all post-it notes on your table
Organize your ideas by “natural” categories
Once your group has settled on categories, place your
post-it notes in columns on your table.

11. Affinity Mapping Cont…
Talk about the categories and come up with a name for each one.
Choose a spokesperson from your group to talk about:
What are potential topics for your group?

12. Affinity Mapping-Bringing it all together!
Finally-after hearing everyone’s topic, move to a topic that inspires you.
Action Step
On a sticky note, write your name (and if a panel idea, the names of the panel members) and topic for a session. We will collect them.
Write your idea down somewhere for you to remember too!

13. Thanks for coming today!
Exit Activity
Please take your post-it notes where you wrote your secondary ELL bright spots from your district and post them on the presentation board. We will share them at the Secondary ELL SIG information table.
After the conference look for a link for the Secondary ELL SIG on the WABE website!
Thanks for coming today!