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My name is Darryl Brooks i am a Para here at ALC. Im looking forward to learning more information about this course

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Hi there! My name is Ajani Hedge and this is my fourth year teaching ELA/SS at Budewig Intermediate. I joined this course in hopes to gain more knowledge about helping my students become effective writers.

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I am the Reading Specialist at Horn Elementary.  I have been in education for 15 years.  I joined this course because this year I am supporting 4th grade and wanted to expand my knowledge in writing.

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Hello, My name is Will Jones and this is my 4th year teaching at Taylor High. I joined this course hoping to learn something about best writing practices that I could share with my kiddos.

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Hello guys. I'm a second grade teacher at Landis Elementary. I teach reading in Spanish. I'm always enriching myself with writing PDs every year to motivate my kids to write.

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Hello!!! I am currently a 4th grade teacher at Landis Elementary. I have been  in education for 14 yrs in various position.  I have been a Dual Language ESL teacher for the past three years.  Prior to that I have taught grades 2nd-4th Reading/Language Arts for many years. I

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I am Jason Boyd, and this is my 7th year teaching at Miller Intermediate. I teach 6th grade Science. The reason I wanted to take this course is to learn effective strategies for successfully incorporating writing with the science curriculum. Helping students grow as writers will benefit them in all content areas.

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Hi! I'm glad to be sharing with you today. I am a 6th grade Bilingual Teacher at Budewig Intermediate. I teach science and social studies. I've been teaching for 30 + years, 12 years in Alief. My goal this year is to help students improve their writing skills in the content areas I teach. When I saw this workshop I jumped at the opportunity to learn new skills and ideas that could make writing enjoyable for my students.

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Helle there! My name is Erin from Liestman Elementary, 1st grade DL. I have eight years teaching experience, mainly in ECE. I am taking this course because I find it challenging to help children understand the steps of the writing process and keep them engaged. I struggle with pacing, too. I want Writer's Workshop to be fun and exciting because I really do love it!

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Hello! My name is Myua Truong and this will be my 3rd year teaching at Taylor HS. I am teaching in the science department and I joined this course to gain knowledge about how I could include creative writing into my classroom.

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Hello everyone! I am the ESL Specialist at Martin Elementary. I have been in Alief for 8 years, starting as a 4th Grade Bilingual teacher, then becoming an ELD Interventionist, and now in my first year as a specialist. My goal is to help teachers identify the best ways to incorporate writing across content areas and to refresh and renew my own instructional strategy tools.

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Hi, my name is Kelley Player. I am a 5th grade ELAR teacher at Miller Intermediate. This is my 7th year teaching. I wanted to take this course to learn new strategies to teach writing to students.

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Hello! I am Jodie Costello. I teach Reading/LA and Social Studies to 2nd grade. I teach F2F in the morning and virtual in the afternoon. I teach at Holmquist Elementary. This is my 23rd year teaching, with 20 years in Alief. I am looking forward to learning new ideas for writing workshop. :)

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Hello everyone, My name is Camilo Reyes Andrade. I teach second grade bilingual at Landis Elementary. I joined this course, because I think that writing is a powerful tool that we can give to our students.

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Hello everyone, My name is Camilo Reyes Andrade. I teach second grade bilingual at Landis Elementary. I joined this course, because I think that writing is a powerful tool that we can give to our students.

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Hello everyone,
My name is Ms. Zendejas. I am a dual language teacher at Martin Elementary. Have been with Alief as a teacher for almost a year. I am looking forward to this PD because I love learning new ways to help my students.

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Hello all! I am Tirika Caldwell, I am a self-contained 1st grade teacher at Cummings Elementary. This is my 1st year at Cummings but my 12th year in education. i chose this PD to find new ways to introduce writing to my highly populated ESL class.

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This is my 6th year teaching at Chancellor Elementary. It is my first year in 4th grade. I feel with HMH i have struggled more with writing than years past, so I am taking this course to get some new ideas for the writing workshop model.

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Hello my name is Mayra Lazo. I am a second grade dual language teacher. I joined this course because I want to get a refresher on effective writing strategies to make the most of my writers workshop.

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Hi! My name is Liesl Hudson.  This is my 19th year teaching 1st grade at Petrosky Elementary.  I feel like I'm not being an effective writing teacher to my virtual kidos and I'm hoping to learn a few strategies  to improve that.

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Hi! My name is Liesl Hudson.  This is my 19th year teaching 1st grade at Petrosky Elementary.  I feel like I'm not being an effective writing teacher to my virtual kidos and I'm hoping to learn a few strategies  to improve that.

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Hello! I am Amanda Materre. I am a second-year teacher at Martin Elementary. Currently pursing my Doctorate in Education. I wanted to enroll in this course to help develop writers.

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My name is Caroline Johnson. I am a first year teacher at Budewig Intermediate. I joined this course so I can start learning as much as I can and be able to apply writing to whatever content I am teaching.

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Hello, My name is Juan Robayo, I teach at Budewig Intermediate and I'm so happy for this PD. This is my 17th year in ALIEF.

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Hello, My name is Juan Robayo, I teach at Budewig Intermediate and I'm so happy for this PD. This is my 17th year in ALIEF.

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My name is Anh Mai and this is my first year teaching 1st Grade as an ESL teacher at Liestman Elementary. The reason why I wanted to join the course was because I wanted to learn how to effectively teach students how to write and how to build new skills virtually and in person.

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My name is Paula Pineda and this is my second year as a bilingual teacher at Horn Elementary. The reason that I joined this course is because I want to learn as much as I can to help my wonderful students with their writing skills.

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Hello everyone!
My name is Jennifer Galeano and I teach 3rd grade at Collins Elementary. This is my 5th year of teaching. The reason I joined this course is to have more resources to use in my classroom.

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Hello, my name is Jorge Rivera and I work at Chambers as ESL Lead.
I’m taking this course to help me understand better how to integrate the writing process and ELL’s language acquisition.

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Hello everyone,
My name is Deana Villegas and this is my second year teaching 4th grade at Hearne Elementary. I joined this course because I want to gain more writing skills to provide support for my students.

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Hello all! My name is Joana Sagastizado, I currently work at Youngblood Intermediate as a 5th grade Dual Language teacher.  This is my 6th year as a teacher at YB. One reason I joined this PD course is because I feel like I don't have a lot of knowledge and skills to teach writing and I want to learn strategies that will make writing engaging for my students.

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Hello everyone,
My name is Kendra Veal, and this is my first yeart as a teacher! I teach 6th grad ELAR and SS at Mata Intermediate. I joined this group because I want to learn more skills in writing to teach my students.

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Hello everyone! My name is Damaris Estrada, and this is my very first year as a teacher. I teach 5th grade bilingual ELAR at Owens Intermediate. The reason I joined this course is because I want to learn new and effective ways to teach writing to my students.

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Linda Schmeer - 5th Grade ESL Self-Contained at Miller Intermediate. Relocated to Texas in 2016 upon retiring with 35 years of teaching and coaching ELAR in Florida. This year, I have varied levels of writing abilities and am interested in how to close the gap and provide strategies for my students to become successful writers in all content areas.

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Linda Schmeer - 5th Grade ESL Self-Contained at Miller Intermediate. Relocated to Texas in 2016 upon retiring with 35 years of teaching and coaching ELAR in Florida. This year, I have varied levels of writing abilities and am interested in how to close the gap and provide strategies for my students to become successful writers in all content areas.

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Hello everyone I am a 4th grade ELA teacher at Holmquist Elementary. I am looking forward to gaining some new tools in writing during these "different" times. Collaboration is always the best tool when looking for new ideas.

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Hi everyone!
I teach first grade Bilingual in Hicks E.S. I have been teaching for 5 years. I'm interested in learning all I can on effective ways to teach writing to my emergent and early readers.

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My name is Robyn Harris. I'm a 5th grade self-contained teacher at Collins elementary. I'm looking forward to a refresher on Writer's Workshop, and strategies to help with virtual writers.

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Hi! I am Daniela Fernandez. I am a 2nd grade teacher at Cummings Elementary. This will be my 2nd year teaching. The reason I have joined this course is because I want to learn how I can help my students become better writers, especially during these different circumstances.

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Hello. I am currently assigned to Holub Middle School as an ICS teacher, but my permanent position is with Sped Central as a Homebound Teacher. I have been teaching for over 15 years now. I joined this course because writing is one of the most important skills a student can learn and is used in all content areas. I want to learn all I can to help my students.

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Hello. I am a third grade math and science teacher at Collins Elementary. This is my 6th year of teaching. I have taught 3rd grade ELA for 2 years as well as 1st grade self contained for 2 years. I signed up for this course because writing is used throughout all content areas so it is very important for me to be able to facilitate my students with their writing so that they can be fluent writers.

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Hello everyone, I am Leslie Cruz. I teach kindergarten at Collins Elementary. I have been teaching for 10 years now. I decided to this course because my professional goal is focused on writing.

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Hello everyone, I am Leslie Cruz. I teach kindergarten at Collins Elementary. I have been teaching for 10 years now. I decided to this course because my professional goal is focused on writing.

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Hi, everyone. This is my second year as a Dual Language teacher at Mata IS. I have been a teacher for about twenty years.
I picked this course for two main reasons.
1.  I was a new teacher last year, I had to learn lots of new things, and I did not do a good job in teaching writing.
2. I decided to challenge myself, and this school year, my professional goal is focused on writing.

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Hi!
My name is Gabriela Cuevas and I am in the ESL Department at Horn Elementary. I am interested in this training as our LEP students have to do writing samples for TELPAS: I would like to learn how to facilitate that process for our English language learners.

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Hello everyone. I am Tiara Stenson. I teach English 3 at Taylor High School. I have been teaching for 20 years now. Not only do I have ESL transitional students, but sped students as well. These techniques will benefit my students in so many ways.

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I am a first year Bilingual teacher. I teach 6th grade ELAR at Youngblood Intermediate. One reason I joined this course is to gain experience to help my students to develop their writing skills.

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I'm in my 15th year as a journalism teacher at Alief Taylor. I'm looking for strategies to use with ESL students, among other things.

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I am a second year 2nd grade teacher at Petrosky Elementary. Writing instruction has been something I've struggled with so I wanted to better myself for my current and future students.

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I am a bilingual teacher at Horn Elementary. This is going to be my third year teaching. I joined this course because I want to learn different ways how to teach better writng and make it meaningful for my students.

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I am the ELAR/SS Specialist at Boone Elementary.  I have had the pleasure of working at  Boone for 18 years.  One reason I created this course was so educators could have a place to collaborate and grow in our knowledge of teaching writing.

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Instruction Department 
13 years of teaching
One reason I created this course is to have a deeper understanding of different instructional practices to use during writer's workshop.