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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> FW: PPRAXIS ESOL National Advisory Committee (NAC) - Looking for participants<br>
<b>Importance:</b> High<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">FYI – just in case you know any non-ETSers who might be interested.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Roland, Willisa Y
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 24, 2014 12:37 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> FW: PPRAXIS ESOL National Advisory Committee (NAC) - Looking for participants<br>
<b>Importance:</b> High<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If you’re interested, please click on the link and submit your information by this Friday, 9/26. Anyone with ESOL experience will be considered, but special consideration will be given to male African American,
Hispanic, and Asian K12 ESOL teachers in the following states: HI, ID, IA, KS, KY, ME, SC, TN, VT, WI, and WY, plus DC, Guam & USVI.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If you have any questions, email Maria Konkel at
<a href="mailto:mkonkel@ets.org">mkonkel@ets.org</a> . Please feel free to forward to other ESOL professionals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> Willisa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Konkel, Maria
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 12, 2014 3:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Roland, Willisa Y<br>
<b>Subject:</b> FW: PRAXIS ESOL NAC - recruiting efforts</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Willisa,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This fall, ETS will be updating the PRAXIS ESOL test specifications. To assist in making these changes, we will be convening a National Advisory Committee (NAC) from Nov. 13 – 16 in Princeton, NJ. Currently, we are recruiting applicants
who are interested in serving on the NAC.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A NAC is typically composed of about 12-15 experts in the field selected so that each committee is diverse with respect to gender, race and ethnicity, geography, professions (K-12 teachers, professors, linguists, etc.), and state and grade
level representation. Committee members will work with ETS staff over the course of two separate weekends to analyze, revise, and finalize new test specifications for the PRAXIS ESOL test. We may also discuss new computer-enhanced innovative items that we
can incorporate into the test in order to assess test candidates more authentically and appropriately.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The NAC meets in Princeton over the course of two weekends that are usually about six months apart. During the first NAC meeting we will draft a set of “knowledge and skill statements” that
will serve as the building blocks for new test specifications. We will send these knowledge and skill statements out in the form of a job survey to ESL teachers across the country to solicit feedback. At the second meeting, we will look at the results of the
survey and finalize the new test specifications. <a name="Question0">Committee members receive an honorarium for each meeting they attend, and all travel and lodging expenses are paid by ETS. Certificates will be provided to NAC members indicating the meeting
provided 20 hours of Professional Development. In addition, ETS will reimburse an attending committee member’s school district when a substitute teacher is employed for the time the committee member is attending an ETS-sponsored NAC meeting.</a> Those interested
in applying can do so by following the instructions here: </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://surveys1013.websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/bfried/NACRegistration.htm">http://surveys1013.websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/bfried/NACRegistration.htm</a>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Maria<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">_________________________________________________________<br>
Maria Konkel | Assessment Specialist | 609.683.2320 | <a href="http://www.ETS.org">
www.ETS.org</a> </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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