The group will meet at a restaurant in Odenton, Mama Roma, from 11:00am – 2:00pm. The owners are former English language learners. Debra Suarez and Paul Holland will make presentations. These were the presenters requested at the IS meeting at the conference. Please continue to check the website for updates, adjustments and possible inclement weather plans.

The Elementary SIG Spring Meeting Event was held on Saturday, February 4th, 2006 at a Korean Restaurant with guest speakers, Bridget McNamara who spoke on "Altering Guided Reading Strategeis for the Elementary ELLs" and Mr. Eugene Easter from Scholastic Library who showed and gave away free samples of English/Spanish books and demonstrated the Grolier Online service. In addition, the participants had an interesting discussion about types of ESOL programs in their schools. If you like to read about responses from the participants, download a summary of evaluation here.

Spring Meeting 2005 was held on February 12, 2005 from 11:30 a.m to 2:00 p.m. at a Korean restaurant in Glen Burnie, MD. We had some social time, share ideas related to preparing our ELLs for the MSA and get some more information on Praxis II. Several attendees brought ideas to share and/or handouts on MSA-related materials. The spring meeting 2005 flyer.

November 6th, 2004: At the Elementary Special Interest Group Meeting at the MD TESOL Fall Conference, we conducted a survey to gather the members' ideas and suggestions on spring events. Click here to see the result of the survey. Also, at the meeting we talked about Praxis II test: What is the test about? How can you prepare for the test? What are the resources? Click here to see the handout on Praxis II.