Ellen O'Brian - OG & Hope for Students

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everyone, and welcome to this episode of the Learn Literacy Podcast, where we advocate language for life by teaching literacy through language and structure.

I'm very excited today for this practitioner profile, and I have with me as my guest an OG fellow, Ellen O'Brien.

Welcome, Ellen.

Thanks for being here.

Thank you,

Cheryl, for having me.

I'm so glad we can meet like this.

And I've appreciated knowing you as an OG friend for some time.

So it's nice to learn more about you in this setting.

So I'm very interested in people's OG stories and how they learned about OG.

And we're on opposite sides of Canada, which is kind of neat.

We have different perspectives being I'm on the East Coast, you're on the West Coast.

So how did you learn about OG and start your journey?