Consulting services for adult ESL programs: ELL Adult Ed Works

1. ELL Adult Ed Works:
No Bans, No Walls to student potential
THE ADULT EDUCATION EXPERTS
ESL PROGRAM
development and
training

2. KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES
ELL Adult Ed Works provides
consulting services for educators
who wish to make their adult
education programs more
accountable, efficient and
effective.
While meeting the diverse
needs of ESL students, we
show you how to take
concrete steps to energize
your program in the
following ways:

3. Make your adult ESL program thrive and generate
increased funding.
Ensure that second language learners achieve
measurable outcomes that lead to higher transition
rates to post-secondary education and vocational
training programs.
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4. Adult literacy
Family literacy
Working with students
who are Deaf
OVERVIEW: WE OFFER PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT WITH...
Contextualized
instruction
Scaffolding instruction
Program Development
Transitional programs
VESL programs and
AEBG
Accountability
Orientation programs
for new students
Curriculum
development

5. Let us show you how we transformed
Non-Credit ESL at
Santa Rosa Junior College
into a model program
that you will want to emulate!
ELL Adult Ed Works

6. Transitional
Programs
Create, energize and expand your adult ESL
program
Initiate, pilot and implement managed enrollment
programs: a vehicle to improve student
achievement, persistence and retention.
Design and implement family literacy programs
Promote civic engagement through community
participation and advocacy.
Program
Development
Bridge courses
Student transition events, including specialized
conferences targeted at completion of vocational
and academic programs.
Preparing bilingual/bicultural IAs as role models
for ESL students
from non-credit to credit
courses, and career
training

7. Develop engaging and relevant curriculum to
prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s work
world
Integrate and contextualize ESL courses with
workplace skills
Orientation materials that work
Developing an orientation class
Creating interactive presentations that promote
persistence, retention and success
Orientation
Programs
for incoming students
VESL
Programs
& AEBG
Accountability
Using CASAS to inform instruction
Common learning assessments
Implementing grades in non-credit programs
State-approved CDCP (Career Development
College Preparation) certificates
Data collection

8. Teaching grammar in context
Building reading and writing skills
Fostering oral/aural competence and confidence
Using student-centered instructional strategies
with the instructor as facilitator
Programmatic and curricular components of
programs that support parents as their
children’s first teachers
Family
Literacy
Contextualized
Instruction
Curriculum
Development
Creating effective and pedagogically sound
curricula that promote student success
Developing Student Learning Outcomes
Creating electives that hone students' skills
Articulation between credit and non-credit

9. Working with
Deaf students
Supporting ESL instructors and ASL
interpreters working together to promote the
success of students who are Deaf
Scaffolding
Instruction
Linking background knowledge and culture
to learning
Supporting the success of non-traditional
students
Reading Apprenticeship
Writing process
Supporting new readers and writers
Developing first language literacy skills that
will transfer to English
Learners' lives as curriculum
Reading to learn
Adult Literacy

10. ELL Adult Ed Works
ESL Program
Development
and Training

11. Contact us:
mestrin@santarosa.edu
elicht@santarosa.edu
Ellen Licht grew up as a third culture kid
in West Africa and is multi-lingual. In
addition to teaching classes from literacy
through advanced academic writing, she
has been actively involved in all aspects of
the expansion and development of the
Non-Credit ESL program at Santa Rosa
Junior College in Northern California,
including events planning, teacher
training, and curriculum and materials
development. She also co-coordinates the
program at SRJC.
Marti Estrin has worked as an ESL instructor, program coordinator and
teacher trainer for over 30 years, beginning her career teaching ESL in
East LA. For the past 18 years, she led the noncredit ESL program at
Santa Rosa Junior College as it grew by 180% into a complex program
with varied components to meet the needs of second language learners
and their families throughout Sonoma County -- all of which led to an
improved transition rate of over 45% of noncredit students matriculating
to credit ESL. Marti also coordinated the Noncredit ESL WIOA grant
which generated over 3 million dollars over the past 10 years.