Presentation to our East County Business Partners

1. San Diego East County
Chamber of
Commerce
Sharing our Vision
Janet Ilko Cajon Valley Middle School ELL Writing Teacher
San Diego Area Writing Project Fellow
Dr. Carmen Restrepo Cajon Valley Union School District
Coordinator of Educational Technology

2. Passions to Words, Sharing Our
Stories
 “You don’t have to be the
star, you can be the light
shining on them.”
 RawandaIbrahem Writing
for Change student
 Cajon Valley Middle School
Grade 6

3. Welcome to CVMS!
Expect More, Achieve
More!

4. Student Demographics

5. The San Diego Area Writing
Project/ NWP

6. Building Language: Stanford
Graduate School of Education
The Understanding Language  Instruction focuses on
District Engagement providing ELLs with
subcommittee has released a opportunities to engage in
set of Six Key Principles to discipline specific practices
support ELL’s in meeting the which are designed to build
rigorous, grade level conceptual understanding
academic standards found in and language competence
the Common Core in tandem.
Standards.
 Instruction leverages ELL’s
Blogging directly supports three home language, cultural
of those standards. assets and prior knowledge.
Ell.stanford.edu/content/six-key-  Standards aligned instruction
principals-ell-instruction for ELLs is rigorous, grade-level
appropriate and provides
January 11, 2013 deliberate and appropriate
scaffolds.

7. Why Blog?
Student blogging is not just a short
term project, it’s become a forum
where students can share their
ideas and write for a real purpose.
The beauty of blogging is the
revision process becomes
seamlessly part of writing. Once
you push submit, there is an
instantaneous audience. That
realization that you will be read,
and that your words matter
create a sense of urgency and
need to clarify and justify the
posts.

8. Standards for the Lesson
 NETS for Students
 2. Communications and Collaboration
 Students use digital media and environments to
communicate and work
 collaboratively, including at a distance, to support
individual learning and
 Contribute to the learning of others. a. Interact,
collaborate, and publish
 with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital
environments
 and media

9. NETS Standards for Lesson
 5. Digital Citizenship
 Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to
 technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students:
 a. Advocate safe. Legal, and responsible use of information and
technology.
 b. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports
 collaboration, learning, and productivity.
 c. Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.
 d. Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.

10. Writing Standards
 7th and 8th Grade CCSS Writing Standards
 4.Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development,
 organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
 5.With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and
 strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, re-writing, or
 trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have
been
 addressed.
 6.Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and
 link to and cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others,
 Including linking to and citing sources.

11. Lesson Objective
 By the end of today’s lesson we will:
 Compare and contrast the similarities and
differences between social and academic
comments
 Write at least 2 academic comments after
reading posts from peers.

12. A Cross Country Digital
Conversation
 Please log into
www.edmodo.com
 The casscode to register is:
 group code 99ghtj
 Once you have joined our
group, please read student
blog entries and write your
own academic responses.
 We have students live in our
computer lab waiting to
post with you.

13. The Newseum in D.C.

14. Talking from D.C. to CVMS

15. Cross Country Dialogue

16. Superintendent of Education
Mr. Arne Duncan

17. Back at CVMS

18. Responding from D.C.

19. Back at CVMS

20. Students using iPods at CVMS

21. Digital Town Hall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkQEmGvB
k7o&feature=youtu.be

22. The Work Continues
 Students continue to use their
blogs as tools for
communication. Here is a
sample of student work.
Andres comes after school to
work on his blog since he
doesn’t have internet access
and support at home.
 The short answer to a
complicated question, “Will
they write more often and
with more depth of
knowledge knowing they
have a wider audience”
So far, the answer is yes.

23. We Invite You to Our Campus
 We encourage you to
come by and see the
wonderful work at Cajon
Valley Middle School.
 Please contact us to
schedule a visit at 619-588-
3092
 We welcome our
community partners to
come see first hand the
vision and work on our
campus.

24. Supporting the Work
 We are looking for business
partners to support the on
going work at Cajon Valley
Middle School and our San
Diego Area Writing Project
Summer Program called
Writing for Change.
 Please feel free to contact
me for further information.
 janetilko8@gmail.com
 www.writingforchange.net