ELL Leadership Class 2014-2015

This school year marks the beginning of a new leaf for the ELL Leadership Class.  We have some of the old leaders, and some new students in the class.  So far, these are the activities that we have finished this semester:

College Night
Girls With Goals
Youth Summit 2014
MAPP (Service for this one is ongoing!)

Here are the students in this semester's ELL Leadership Class.

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B4

Live the Dream Expo

For the past two years, the ELL Leadership Students in the district have collaborated in helping out in the Live the Dream Expo.  Mr. Caburian, the Leadership teacher at the time, connected with Ms. Sandy Brown, the Special Education Transition Specialist, in supporting families of students with disabilities by having our ESL students who spoke two languages to help out by translating for families that needed the assistance.  Aside from translating, the students also helped out as ushers, guides, and even helpers for the vendors of the event.  In the past, the event took place in our own Curtis Culwell Center in Garland.  This year though, our leaders traveled to Allen, Texas in order to continue the legacy of helping and supporting.

Here's a link to a video that Josue Rosales created about the event:
Live the Dream Expo 2014 Video


Here are some pictures from the said event this year:

ELL Student Leadership Class

The ELL Leadership Class was pioneered in Garland ISD by Mr. Roseo T. Caburian Jr. through the support and guidance of Ms. Debbie Weidner and the ESL Team at the time.  From it's beginnings and conceptualization in Lakeview Centennial High School in SY 2010-2011, the program spread and was first named and became an actual class in South Garland High School in SY 2011-2012.

Today the class is being offered in other Garland ISD high schools, inspiring students with potentials to become the leaders that they may not have fathomed they can be due to limitations such as language proficiency, migrant status, and other hindrances typical of second language learners.  This second semester of SY 2013-2014, as the teacher-facilitator of this program in South Garland, I am very excited to help spread the word about this class, and the huge and small actions that constitute the great bouts of inspiration that this class is capable of sharing.

In this blog we would like to share our "GOOD DEEDS" project.  This is the umbrella of our sub projects that focuses of the idea that small random acts of kindness can change the world.  Click on the links of the blogs of the students in this class found on the right side of the page...and be their witnesses that no act of kindness is too small not to create ripples that can become tidal waves.