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Getting creative with strategies for English learners
Educators learn to make due as budget pinch cuts resources
By Jennie Rodriguez
November 22, 2008

Vanessa Gomez, who was named the Lammersville School District's 2006-07 New Teacher of the Year, shared strategies on helping immigrant children transition to English-learning environments during a Wednesday workshop at University of the Pacific's Bernard School of Education. Gomez said she had to become more efficient and creative with limited resources in her English-language development class when she lost her instructional aide at Wicklund Elementary, where the school's 15 percent English learners speak 43 different languages.

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