Dear Ms. Ferreira,
I am applying for the ESL Teacher position at Highline Elementary. I currently serve eighty-four multilingual students across two buildings, and your posting's description of a newcomer group arriving mid-year is the situation I spend most of my time on.
I work push-in with grade-level teams and run a separate newcomer block for students in their first year in the country. Keeping both means a newcomer is not removed from their class all day — they get intensive support in one block and stay with their peers for the rest.
Highline's posting says the newcomer arrivals were unplanned. That is almost always the case, and the thing that makes it survivable is having a block already timetabled rather than assembled in a fortnight.
I hold a Colorado Professional Teacher License in Elementary Education with a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education endorsement.
I would like to hear how the newcomer group is being supported at the moment, and whether the block is protected in the timetable. I am glad to meet whenever works for you.
Sincerely, Rukmini Patel