Who Are We?
Michele Yanong |
Maggie Essig |
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Michele is a Golden Apple Award winning educator and holds a Masters Degree in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on ESL/Bilingual education. She has taught graduate level courses in the area of ESL Methodology K-12, as well as Methods and Materials for Teaching ESL for Preschool Children. Michele has leadership experience in Sheltered Instruction Program implementation and curriculum design. She has also delivered professional development on academic language supports, technology integration, bilingual parent and school collaboration, advocacy for ELs, and vocabulary growth through intentional play. Her most recent teaching position was working with 1st and 2nd grade multiage English Learners in a highly diverse suburban setting. Michele’s history also includes work as a K-5 ELL pull-out specialist, a K/1 sheltered classroom teacher, and a 0-3 childcare provider.
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Maggie has a worked as an ESL and Bilingual teacher as well as ELL Program Coordinator in a suburban school district. Maggie holds a B.A. in Psychology, a M.Ed. in Instructional Leadership in Elementary Education, a M.Ed. in Educational Leadership, as well as LBSI, ESL, Bilingual (Spanish) Education, Bilingual LBSI, General Administrative, and Gifted Education endorsements. Her interests include integrating technology and ESL methods into instruction to engage students and support language development and helping educators build their Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) to collaborate with other innovative educators. Maggie has presented at the National WIDA Conference as well as the Illinois Computing Educators Conference on the topic of integrating technology to enhance instruction comprehensible for English Learners.
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Mission
All children deserve an educational experience that promotes diversity and innovation.
We believe in pedagogy first, technology second. In other words, plan should be rooted in solid content and language instruction. Technology is not the plan, but rather a tool to help us execute good plans and create new learning tasks that would not have been possible without the tools.
Our goal is to redefine education for ELs using technology as a catalyst for authentic language learning.
We seek to investigate, curate, and share technology filtered through our unique lens of EL/Bilingual Education.... and we love gently encouraging evolution on both fronts.
We believe in pedagogy first, technology second. In other words, plan should be rooted in solid content and language instruction. Technology is not the plan, but rather a tool to help us execute good plans and create new learning tasks that would not have been possible without the tools.
Our goal is to redefine education for ELs using technology as a catalyst for authentic language learning.
We seek to investigate, curate, and share technology filtered through our unique lens of EL/Bilingual Education.... and we love gently encouraging evolution on both fronts.
Affiliations
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Both of us work for Paridad Education Consulting, and we are available for consultation, professional development, technical assistance, curriculum work, and much more! We work on a national and global level, in support of Bilingual/EL Programs, Instruction, Conditions for Learning, Assessment, Curriculum, Parental Engagement, Culture, and Educational Technology. We are happy to customize support for your organization.
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As educational specialists at the Illinois Resource Center (IRC), we can provide assistance in professional development in several areas relating to the education of linguistically and culturally diverse students who are English language learners (ELLs). We work with groups of teachers, administrators, other staff, or parents during the academic year or in the summer.
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