ELD staff, student describe small-group math support at Tiffany Ridge

Brad Foff, a teacher's assistant with the English Language Development (ELD) program at Tiffany Ridge in the Park Hill School District, described in the meeting transcript how ELD staff deliver small-group and individual math instruction to students. "Our job as ELD teachers is we sometimes push into the classroom and help out, and sometimes I will pull kids and we'll work individually," Foff said.

The transcript shows the instruction includes hands-on practice and homework to reinforce classroom lessons. A student who spoke in the same sequence said, "We do math or sometimes he gives us problems and we, solve it. He kinda makes us, like, practice a lot of and he gives us, like, homework, kind of, like our teachers, so we could do it at home so we can get better." The student also described sessions on fractions and small-group work: "If we're working with fractions, we're doing it together on the board, or they're on a individual worksheet, and there's only 5 or 7 of them, say. So they get individualized instruction, and they can, get better quickly."

Foff placed his remarks in the context of his experience in the district. "I've worked in many different schools in the Park Hill School District, and Tiffany Ridge has just been amazingly positive," he said, adding that the staff hired there appear motivated to teach and support students. The student credited a staff member named Matt for making math more understandable and engaging: "Sometimes I don't understand the teacher, like, what she says. So, like, he helps me more and understand what it actually means... I love Matt because he helped me with math."

The statements in the transcript emphasize small-group sizes, individualized help and the use of practice and take-home work to support English learners in mathematics. No formal motions, votes or policy decisions related to ELD instruction appear in the provided transcript segment.