English Language Learners
The vision of the Boaz City Schools English Language Learners (EL) program is to help English learners experience success in the classroom and community. Our program goal is to develop skills in Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing in a safe supportive learning environment. We focus on collaboration with classroom teachers to promote engagement of EL students and in learning and we work to help EL students graduate with a plan for their future by helping them transition into post-secondary opportunities.
An English Language Learner is a student in grades K-12 that is currently learning English to be successful in school.Students who have a language besides English spoken in the home are evaluated to see if they need additional English language support to be successful in school. EL students are identified by the Home Language Survey which is completed by all parents when new students are enrolled.
Boaz City Schools provides EL services to students in all grades at all buildings, with full-time EL teachers at Boaz Elementary School, Corley Elementary School, Boaz Intermediate School, Boaz Middle School, and Boaz High School.
English Learners Director
Kim Mattox is the EL Program Director for Boaz City Schools. Kim graduated from Jacksonville State University in 1989 with a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education and then in 1996 received her Master’s Degree in Elementary Education from JSU. She then graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) with a Master of Science in English as a Second Language. She began her career in 1989 with Oxford City Schools in Oxford, Alabama where she was a Third Grade teacher. Kim also taught First Grade, Kindergarten and English as a Second Language. She then worked for the Alabama Department of Education as a Regional EL Coach for regions 6, 3, and 1 and then as a Regional Coach for the Alabama Reading Initiative. Kim became the EL Program Director for Boaz City Schools in 2016. She is married to Brett Mattox and they have three sons, Alex, Owen, and Noah.