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The course work for my school administrator credentials continues this weekend.  I am creating a new category here called “EDAD 620″, which simply refers to the course number.  For the next couple of weeks, the focus of this blog will be this class.  My goal is to use this category to record reflections and journaling as required in the syllabus.  I will also use this to post any pertinent thoughts about class discussions that aren’t necessarily required in the syllabus. 

The class is entitled “Essential Readings About School Learners:  Education of Second Language Learners”.  It’s only a one-credit class.  The book we will be reading is called The Inner World of the Immigrant Child, by Cristina Ioga.  I’m about a third of the way through it so far, and I’ll post a review here when I get a chance to digest it a little more.  In addition to the book, it looks like we’ve got some handouts to read and an overview of the legal framework that pertains to ELL issues.  According to the syllabus, all course work will reflect the question “What school reform is needed to improve education for English Language Learners?”

Regular readers are invited to comment right along with class members.  Not only am I opening up my class work to my cohort and the instructor, I’m also opening it up to the rest of the blogosphere.  That’s maybe a different step for me, but it will be interesting to see how this thing we call blogging can work hand in hand with post-graduate course work.