Dear Ms. Deborah Chitester,

 The 3 day workshop that you gave on The Struggling English Language Learner was extremely informative as well as thought provoking.  Our district learned a great deal and plans to follow up on several of your suggestions.  One such area included the Identification of Struggling ELLs.  Your suggestions for how to conduct Culturally Sensitive and Appropriate Assessments was exactly what we needed in our district.  We have created an Ethnographic Interview as a result that includes all the areas you have discussed.  As a result, we have been able to better identify these types of students.  There is a definite need in this district to become better informed on this topic.  Your workshop provided an excellent forum for us to ask questions, problem solve and voice opinions.  Looking forward to all other workshops as well as valuable information that you will provide our district.

Lori G

Deborah, thanks again for the very helpful and interesting workshop.  It was a pleasure meeting you too and I appreciated the conversation we had.  Helped me get some thoughts going in the right direction and am now making a plan of action.