Experience an immersive, engaging and interactive lesson presented entirely in Spanish. Strategies, accommodations, grouping and scaffolding are embedded during the presentation, for understanding and modeling., You can’t miss this session to give educators the empathy needed to understand ELs.
Topics: Language, Science or Adult Professional Development
Recommended time: 1.5 hours or 3 hours.

Designed to inform educators about the legal considerations for ELs and their role and responsibility in their education.

Recommended time: 1.5 hours or 3 hours

Activities and application of knowing our students (and them knowing us) to create optimum learning conditions.
Recommended time: 3 hours or 6 hours

RAIELs (Recently Arrived Immigrant English Learners) are a highly diverse group, who come with a set of skills, assests, experiences and funds of kn owledge. We use the gifts they bring with them to give them access to the academic content and language.
Recommended time: 3 hours or 6 hours

After the 6th year receiving ESL support, LTELs need different considerations. They appear to speak and understand English and it sometimes may appear that they are other issues. Data is utilized to create programming for LTELs for growth and success.
Recommended time: 3 hours or 6 hours

Understanding the gifts our ELs bring with them and using them to create conditions of acceptance and belonging empower student learning and success.
Recommended time: 3 hours
Prerequisite: Building Bridges

All content has its own language and therefore it’s a perfect coupling, both in tune with one another. This session teaches how to be aware of the language demands and how to integrate them.
Recommended time: 3 hours
A 6-hour session affords planning.

Let us help show you how to accommodate different language proficiencies without sacrificing grade level content. Use of scaffolding and strategies give students access to the curriculum.

Grades don’t accurately depict what students have learned when we grade content and language together. Learn how to incorporate both and assess for each differently, based on the criteria and objectives of the lesson.

Knowing students’ PL (proficiency level) and the WIDA standards and the language for Science, Social Studies, Math, Language Arts assists in knowing what students need to learn/do to meet the criteria of the standard. Utilizing the key uses of language, Narrate, Inform, Explain and Argue, learn how to include the functions and features of language for moving proficiency.

WIDA results can be both confusing and intimidating . Let us show you how to evaluate the results and set a course of action for students both in language and content.
Recommended time: 1.5 hours or 3 hours.

No educator is an island and stands alone. We MUST work together to ensure we are giving our MLs the access to language, content and curriculum by collaborating to meet the needs during the entire student’s day.

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Learn how to effectively communicate with parents in conferences to give them feedback, information and the tools necessary for them to support their children. Setting the expectations and the environment for success is the beginning of building the Parent Pillar.
Recommended Time: 1.5 hours