Students often enter the EL program with little ability to express themselves or sometimes to comprehend essential information that we need to go home. We have a team of professionals whose job it is to help us express necessary information and who can help us negotiate cultural issues that crop up.
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In addition, there are several liaisons employed by the district on an on-call basis, to deliver students to students whose language subgroups have not reached a critical mass. These individuals also help deliver services during such school functions as parent-teacher conferences.
Additional EL Department Staff
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Miriam Ehtesham-Cating is a career educator with more than 30 years of experience working with English Language Learners. She is the daughter of a teacher from North Carolina and a physician from Iran, and although born in the United States, she spent most of her childhood in Iran. She holds a Master’s Degree from Columbia University, where she studied Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. She completed additional graduate work in education and work towards a doctoral degree at Nazareth College, the University of Rochester, and The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. You can reach her at mcating@bsdvt.org.
El Department Staff
Mary Neudecker | STEP Teacher |
Ali Dieng | Founder/Manager, Parent University |
Sydney Hinckley | Assistant Manager, Parent University and EL Department Assistant |
Sara Crothers | EL Teacher, BHS |
Jill Jacobelli | EL Teacher, BHS |
Kevin Cross | EL Teacher, BHS |
Susan Blethen | EL Teacher, BHS |
Suzy King | EL Teacher, BHS |
Zhihang Hao | EL Teacher, BHS |
Kim Fankhauser | EL Teacher, BHS |
Yvonne Brett | EL Instructional Assistant, BHS/STEP |
Daniel Capps | EL Teacher, BTC |
Rachel Hurwitz | EL Teacher, BHS District Intake & Assessment Specialist |
Meghan Warda | EL Teacher, Champlain |
Janelle Gendimenico | EL Teacher, Champlain/CP Smith |
Linda Walsleben | EL Teacher, EES |
Andrea Techera-Gill | EL Teacher, EES |
Anna Viets | EL Teacher, EMS |
Amanda Gustafson | EL Teacher, EMS |
Mark Nigolian | EL Teacher, EMS |
Harish Bhattari | Native Language Instructional Support, EMS |
Heidi Brown | EL Teacher, Flynn |
Rebekah Thomas | EL Teacher, Flynn |
Quinn Davis | EL Teacher, Flynn/IAA |
Ervina Kuckovic (Ramic) | EL Teacher, Hunt |
Nancy Nadel | EL Teacher, Hunt |
Andrea Farley | EL Teacher, IAA |
Aranka Gyuk | EL Teacher, IAA |
Kristen Bingel | Academic Language Coach |
Chaska Richardson | EL Teacher, SA |
Jennifer Lenihan | EL Teacher, SA |
Mary Kay O’Brien | EL Teacher, SA |
Amy Kiely | EL Teacher, CP Smith |