ELL Student wins first place in TESOL Essay Contest

ELL Tutor Geraldine Deliva received first place for her essay from the Illinois Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Association. Her essay was number one out of all the area high school submissions. Geraldine, whose family is from the Philippines, is graduating this year and will be attending the University of Illinois at Chicago. Congratulations to Geraldine! Congratulations also to Amy Profetto, Hinsdale Central Director of TPI.

English Teacher and Librarian to Present at National Conference

English Teacher Jared Friebel and Librarian (and honorary English Department Member) Myles Laffey have been working together for two years on developing broad and deep critical research skills for freshman at HC. Their work has influenced English 1 curriculum.

This year they applied to present at the AASL (American Association of School Librarians) National Conference, and were accepted!

Their proposal entitled Research Curriculum Gymnastics: Using TRAILS as a Springboard to a FLIP (Freshman Level Interest Project) will be presented at AASL’s 15^th National Conference & Exhibition, October 27-30, 2011 in Minneapolis, MN.

Congratulations to Jared and Myles! And thank you for being teacher leaders in critical literacy at Hinsdale Central.

Two English Teachers Present at Reading Conference

English teachers Jan Bujan and Jim DiDomenico presented today at the 35th Annual Reading Conference "From Our Roots to Our Branches" sponsored by Concordia University and the West Suburban Reading Council.

Their topic was "Visual Literacy in the High School English Classroom," a topic that both have become experts in during the last couple years.

Congratulations to both of them for sharing their expertise outside the walls of HC!