ABSTRACT
Frederick Douglass Elementary School is located in a primarily Black, impoverished neighborhood with a large population of Hispanics. Georgine Roldan was interviewed for the profile when she taught fourth grade math at Frederick Douglass Elementary School, Miami, Florida. The lesson is modified to align to the Common Core second- and third-grade standards for measurement. Georgine tells the students to take out the homework requiring a tally of the number of family members' or friends' preferences for three different Taco Bell foods: tacos, chalupas, and burritos. Students in the ESOL program are required to meet the same curriculum standards as any other student in mathematics. Every teacher in Florida must be ESOL certified, which means that they have received professional development on how to integrate ESOL strategies and supplementary materials into the curriculum to ensure that comprehensible instruction is being provided to every ELL student.
