What is helpful about the training or flipbook?

• The flipbook is friendly. It clarified questions about ELPS and provided teaching strategies.
• A written guide in handy-dandy glossy flip chart.
• Flipbook is very informational and has good accommodation ideas.
• I learned new strategies to use with all students.
• The flipbook makes needed information readily available.
• The flipbook is very informative.
• To have everything at a glance is so helpful.
• The flipbook is an awesome resource with easy access. I love that!
• The flipbook provides a great resource to address the needs of the ELLs.
• The flipbook has everything in one place.
• This flipbook is an awesome visual. (Good for all students, not just ELLs)
• I like the strategies and explanations of each domain.
• Information outlined in flipbook is easy to find and usw. Very helpful.
• You gave me another strategy to use with all my students. It will help differentiate the students’ proficiency levels. Also, the guide to use in planning our lesson plans is so helpful.
• Your training gave us many new ideas and interactive activities.
• The flipbook provides helpful and easy to get to strategies. This is a book I know I will use. Thanks!
• Flipbook- very convenient to have all the information.
• The flipbook is great for TELPAS also!
• The flipbook was helpful putting things/ideas in order. Many things that are already used in the class are also in the flipbook, just in a different manner.
• I have a new strategy to implement with my students- with my lessons.
• The flipbook condenses the information- puts it in one place.
• I was able to see the domains and descriptions to help our students in the flipbook.
• Flipbook has all the information needed and easy to access.
• Training made me more aware of the ELPS standards and flipbook makes it easier to look at and apply in our classrooms.
• Flipbook- it contains all the info needed at the tip of our fingers.
• The flipbook is a quick resource tool when planning.
• Being able to keep the flip into success chart is the best part of it all.
• The flip chart strategies will be helpful.
• Learning to focus on standards and objectives.
• I have learned about commonality and differentiation.
• You all have given us lots of helpful strategies.
• Understanding the different standards and practicing by implementing them in lesson activities is most helpful.
• This is very good information on ELPS.
• With the flipbook you are able to see everything that applies to the student per domain.
• The flipbook gave us a guide for listening instruction.
• The flipbook has easy access to condensed appropriate information.
• The flipbook is an easy reference to ELPS and Accommodations.
• I will use the flipbook as a reference of strategies we can use in different domains for our students.
• The flipbook is a great tool/resource to refer to.
• It is helpful to know how to incorporate and include objectives for ELLs.
• Great idea and a good way to remember what we need to do.
• The flipbook is great. Everything is made available and user friendly.
• I like the different strategies and ideas to deal with ELL students.
• The accommodations are a great help!
• I can use the flipbook to do my lesson plans in P.E.
• Finding the accommodations and understanding the strategies is very helpful.
• I like the strategies to use to have students get back on track.
• Learning strategies and standards are easy to find in the flipbook.
• The hands-on activity in your training was great.
• Well-organized material is helpful.
• I learned about the different kinds of standards.
• The flipbook is helpful. It will also be convenient and easy to use.
• The flipbook is very helpful.  Thank you for it.
• The training was excellent plus the flipbook will be a great asset to my lesson planning.
• Flipbook was nicely condensed. The flipbook is easier to read than other print outs and online ELPS I have seen.
• Forcing us into exploring the standards. I like the strategies tab with all the ideas.
• Flipbook=greatness. Very helpful.
• The training was successful in the sense that much of the information taught and shared was of great significance toward understanding more completely the responsibilities of the teacher to students. It was an exciting and eye-opening experience.
• Actually going through examples and TEKS. Talking with other content teachers and working/talking through the situations.
• Didn’t know any of the ELPS specifications.
• The flipbook is an incredible quick reference for when I need a solution to problems I am seeing with ELL students, especially since I teach an elective and can be an additional tool for the core area teachers.
• The flipbook is great. I believe that it will provide a practical, useful tool in my class.
• Explain how to approach our ESL students and the challenges of teaching while they learn a 2nd language.
• The training provided tools to help me comply with ELPS law. It also provided practiced ways to help ELL students continue to develop their English language proficiency.
• Explanation to practice exercises using the flipbooks. Applying the information to specific examples.
• I like the strategies being defined at the back.
• They both provided context. They both gave me background that I feel is necessary for superior instruction.
• Strategies/activities descriptions and appropriate use.
• Concise material in the flipbook.
• Identified the assimilation of content and language objectives.
• Flipbook was very helpful with quick reference guide.
• Useful info to implement in the classroom.
• The flipbook was very helpful. I know I will benefit from having so many strategies to utilize in my own classroom.
• The flipbook gave me a lot of new ideas on how to accommodate the ELL students in class.
• The flipbook is great and I found the strategies to be interesting. Seemingly very applicable in the classroom. Many of these concepts are applicable to all students.
• I personally like the strategy section!
• The different activities were very helpful to understand the flipbook. Practice writing a lesson was helpful too.
• It gave me some strategies for dealing with the different levels.
• Strategies- listed by name with descriptions.
• The flipbook will be very helpful with varying instruction in my class. I have no identified ELLS.
• I think the flipbook is a great resource.
• Having the Accommodations, Strategies, and Activities handy to help students.
• I like the flipbook. It will give me new ideas.
• That I will be able to accommodate my students using various strategies.
• Flipbook is helpful and in one convenient place.
• Flipbook- is an awesome tool. It provides a huge amount of info in a small pamphlet.
• The fact that all of the info is in one location.
• Very detailed; very informative.
• To know what is needed for my ELPS students and to help all students.
• Flipbook, having something you can refer to in class and including lessons.
• Great strategies. Helps to target different levels of learners and transition those skills to the next level.
• Flipbook- helpful for using information that is all in one area and provide strategies on how to teach (activities). How to write objectives- this was very helpful.
• I found the flipbook to be a great resource for strategies.
• The flipbook is going to be a helpful tool and resource for helping all of my students by the use of the ELPS strategies.
• Flipbook presented useful information.
• Flipbook is awesome.
• The flipbook will give me many new ideas!
• My 1st time hearing about/learning about ELPS – very informative.
• I loved how it is broken up by subjects and stages.
• It is very helpful for planning to make sure you are making the proper accommodations for your ELLS.
• Good strategies to try. Very helpful for planning!
• All of the information is located in one place in the flipbook.
• Everything!! The flipchart has indicators and strategies to use.
• It was great to have the four domains in a simplified way. It also helps me to refocus and redirect some of my strategies when teaching bilingual students.
• I like the flipbook because it is small and easy to access.
• Flipbook- having everything in one place for reference for what I need to and what the student is expected to do is very helpful.
• I liked the easy break down and the explanation of strategies.
• Practicing with the book in groups to get to know how to use the flipbook.
•  I love the flipbook! It takes all the information you’ve given to us and makes it easier to use.
• Great strategies
• Picked up some new strategies for working with students.
• Love the flipbook; very helpful
• Very handy to use and handy resource to have.
• Utilize flipbook and strategies to improve reading, writing, speaking skills
• Strategy recognition
• New strategies to use in the classroom for LEP and regular Ed. students.
• The activities
• The flipbook is very handy to look at resources—very easy to find info—with accommodations easily listed and next to each other.
• The different strategies it provides and the accommodations
• I am growing in understanding of the terms and methods involved with this material.
• All of the information has been great- just crammed into 3 hrs.
• Lots of information all accessible in one place.
• Understanding the different levels of students and the various strategies and activities
• The flipbook is compact and full of strategies. That is the best thing about the flipbook. Lots of information in one place.
• The flipbook does help because it has the focus and activities for each level.
• It was helpful because all of the information needed is in a small easy-to-use book that teachers can carry around and use without extra bags.
• I found the flipbook to be helpful to distinguish the needs of the different levels of learning.
• It helps me to come up with strategies for the different level of students. It shows activities. The training reinforced objective writing.
• Learning how students advance in the English language and how to use accommodations to help with their success.
• The flipbook helps me to put the pieces of what I need to do together.
• Great ideas for feasible strategies in the classroom that are just one step ahead of what we are doing now. Better understanding of where the students are.
• Both, we need the training to understand the flipbook.
• Flipbook puts things in a nice concise grouping. Strategies included are helpful.
• Making the complicated ELPS more user-friendly.
• The flipbook provides a tremendous amount of useful information – all in one easy-to-use “book.”
• Hearing ideas from other people.
• Strategies; better understanding of ELPS
• ELPS explanation; differentiation of levels of ELLs (begin, intermediate, etc.); flipbook is an easy-to-read reference tool!
• The flipbook will be an easy reference tool to determine strategies and levels to incorporate into class.
• How to use language objectives
• How it’s broken down and what is needed for different levels of students.
• Getting into more detail about the ELPS and having the chance to discuss them.
• Learning strategies to help English Language Learners
• Well organized; not intimidating
• It helped organize information where it was easy to find and easy to find strategies
• Flipbooks would be very helpful, if we had them for planning lessons and implementing strategies appropriately.
• I liked the Activities- I get stuck on the same thing.
• Flip into Success- Loved it. It will help me differentiate my lessons much faster. I know how to use this great tool now!
• Thanks for showing us how to use the flipbook.
• I enjoyed the flipbook. I understand how to use it to help my students.
• I love the handy flipbook- easy to carry. Needed a refresher on the ELPS training-trying to focus on certain areas and not try to target all aspects.
• It was good to be reminded to focus on one specific ELP to teach as you integrate others. I will definitely use the ELPS Flip into Success book.
• Vocabulary strategies were very helpful.
• Vocabulary acquisition activities
• New strategies in the classroom. Models: hands-on.
• Handouts/Hands-on activities
• The practical ways given to work ESL into everything
• Vocabulary strategies; learning about the new Blooms Taxonomy
• Vocabulary strategies
• Practicing the strategies, working with each other
• Information was well organized.
• The flipbook is a great, easy-to-use, resource that teachers will have easy access to when using/writing lessons.
• I think that the flipbook will be a great tool when teaching the teachers about the ELPS. I do think that the information presented today is very applicable.
• As a newcomer it gave me an insight of needed information.
• I liked being able to move around—not sit-n-get
• It taught me what ELPS were and how to use them in the classroom—I had never heard of them before.
• Learning how to use the flipbook through the stations
• It reinforced the introductory training we received in March.
• The hands-on activities that navigated us through using the flipbooks and the detailed information given!!
• The flipbook is an excellent resource.
• Understanding how to align the ELPS’ standards, domains, PLDs, accommodations and strategies
• The flipbooks are very complete
• Love the flipbook. It will be very helpful to have everything in once small place.
• I loved the way activities were provided for each language domain. The presenter was kind, knowledgeable and patient. This gave us a higher risk-taking attitude.
• The format was most helpful.
• Presenter was easy to follow. Flipbook is very user-friendly, a sturdy resource. Specific content examples useful
• Everything is laid out and easy to follow.
• The flipbook seems very easy to navigate.
• The flipbook looks very concise and easy to use. I think it will be a great resource for teachers.
• The flipbook is an essential tool for teachers who teach ESL (or all) students.
• Flipbook is an excellent resource.
• Step-by-step process and presenter’s patience
• Flipbook was a great way to organize the information and make it accessible for teachers.
• Having information completed in a convenient format
• Walking through it and “doing it” hands-on learning
• The activities that helped us use the flipbook parts
• It was helpful when you showed us how to use the fiipbook.
• It was very helpful.
• Strategies
• Love the flipbook! Mendy was very good!!
• Mendy’s insight on how to use the flipbook
• Very well-organized, great strategies section
• Flipbook is awesome and will sit on my whiteboard as a resource to use daily!
• It’s a lot of information in one convenient place.
• Being able to go around the stations and familiarize ourselves with the strategies
• Explaining how to use it!
• Flipbook is short and gives the needed info
• Flipbook is easy to use, training modeled what would happen at campus
• Getting familiar with flipbook
• I like how the flipbook is organized with specific ideas about how to address needs. Also liked how there is room for student names.
• I like the strategies.
• The training helped me understand the flipbook and how to help the teachers on my campus understand it.
• The PowerPoint of things to cover, having the flipbook for the teachers
• Showed us to actively participate in training
• Peer group sharing
• Narrowed focus of ELPS to make it more manageable to understand and implement
• It showed me how simple it is to integrate ELPS into the classroom/lessons.
• Loved the flipbook (handy and compact) vs. book/binder; Layout of flipbook –great reference
• The workstations exercises, realizing to focus on ones specific standard at a time
• It gives me a more organized way to plan and integrate the ELPS in lesson plans. The training explained a different way to teach the ELPS.
• All of the ideas we can use and how it is arranged
• Allowed us to practice and learn about the different parts of the books.
• Helpful tool
• The flipbook and how to use it as well as how it is broken up into parts
• It was an easy way to look up information
• The flipbook was helpful because of the accommodations that are great to use.
• Learning how to use the flipbook, having all of the information/ideas in one place
• The training was helpful in providing ideas that will benefit all PLDs. The flipbook has great accommodations!
• I love it. All that information in a small flipbook. I like the strategies part of it and especially the accommodations.
• I feel the stations were helpful in providing opportunity to delve into the flip chart.
• Learning how to use the flipbook.  Nice!!
• Hands-on; learned how to use booklet as a reference, Activities made reference flipbook more clear.
• The training was done in a great format. The flipbook will help this year and the years to follow!
• Learning how to use the flipbook and understanding it
• The strategies with the activities is a great idea
• Everything was easy to find
• Great way to look at the different levels
• Very organized and with helpful activities
• It was very helpful. I will use this on a daily basis to make my lessons.
• The organization of the flipbook
• Love the flipbook, it will stay on my desk
• Excellent organization without having to go to different sources
• The ELPS were better explained
• Put this into such a great organizational manner
• Flipbook will come in handy, thanks
• The training helped clarify the ELPS. I love the flipbook! It’s easy to read and use, and I’ll be able to keep it with my lesson plans.
• Flipbook provides well-organized/user-friendly strategies
• The flipbook was great for instant access.
• On hand, concise
• I finally understood what the ELPS meant and how to use them.
• Liked the explanation on how to use the flipbook
• All of it, Thank you!
• The entire flipbook was helpful making my understanding about the ELPS more effective for classroom instruction. The trainee was well organized giving examples and helpful tips.
• I like the flipbook –compact and full of needed info. It was a good review in time for a new year.
• Strategies/activities to use within content
• The flipchart is easily accessible. Explanations are provided. We were given activities to apply the ELPS.
• The training made it easy to understand how to use the ELPS. Flipbook is a wonderful tool! Made it easier!
• I liked the simplification of the ELPS into the lesson. The examples were really helpful.
• The flipbook is great. Very user-friendly. Loved the activities, it really helped me understand how to use the flipbook J
• I love having everything in one place (book). Everything makes more sense after we are walked through the book.
• It made it clear on how I will incorporate ELPS and the flipbook makes it easy to refer to.
• The flipbook will be very handy.
• Being able to construct a lesson plan and ask questions. Flipbook like a cliff notes; great, simple to follow
• The flipbooks are great. It gives me a wealth of information at a glance.
• Very handy; all in one spot
• How to use the flipbook
• I especially liked the flipbook.
• It helped me to better understand the ELPS and SLAR TEKS and how to use them in my classroom.
• I think that the flipbook is going to be easier to use and will be used instead of staying in the closet with my other teacher resources.
• Definitely the flipbook will help me with lesson plans.
• I really liked the flipbook because it is easy to use and well organized.
• The fact that you have everything together in one place.
• The ELPS are all in one convenient place. We were shown how to use the flipbooks and what they meant. We were given examples of how to implement them into lessons.
• I think it makes finding information regarding ELPS simple.
• Having all the information organized and together is great. Useful to use when working in lesson plans.
• Having the flipbook at hand, having all the information in one place
• How to use and accommodate for the students. How to help them build on what they know.
• It’s a quick glance resource. I like the recommended activities.
• Using the flipbook and doing the center activities
• I loved the idea of having all the information handy to use much more easily.
• To learn to apply ELPS depending on the student’s proficiency.
• Condensed and easy to use; learned a way to use it.
• It took all the stress out of planning. I loved the flipbook because all the information is there and handy.
• All info condensed into one, small, convenient booklet
• The centers really helped solidify my ability to effectively use flipbook
• That it was hands-on and we actually practiced using the Flip-Into-Success booklet and we were able to develop different ways of how to use it.
• The flipbook is very helpful. It lays out what is needed and how to implement it in our lessons.
• This training did an awesome job at helping us become familiar with the flipbook. The flipbook is an incredible tool, thank you!
• The flipbook is much easier to use and comprehend. The interactive training on how to use the flipbook was also very useful, as it demonstrated how we will actually be using the flipbook.
• To understand the TEKS (SLARS) and the ELPS
• It broke down the information (ELPS) at a glance. (Just like the title of the flipbook)
• It will be easier than using the book.
• Both, great presenters
• The flipbook will be a helpful tool to help organize plans. Great information!
• I loved the organization of the flipbook. Very simple to use and helpful
• Getting a flipbook and learning how to use it
• All the information is given in a concise manner