Melissa Harder, ESL Teacher
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Melissa Harder, ESL Teacher
Ms. Harder is an ESL Teacher at Central Road and she has worked in District 15 for 3 years as a teacher, and was a student teacher here prior to that! She says, “I love being an ESL teacher because I am able to teach students from all over the world while growing their English. While at a D15 professional development session, Dr. Kinsella stated that 'Academic English is no one's first language.' I use this quote to remind my students they are wickedly smart and are educating themselves in English just as their monolingual peers are!