Presented by Michele Yanong

Have you considered that a single recorded lesson can truly transform your students’ experience with remote learning? Learn how to select materials you have access to, plan a language supported lesson, and record a sequence that will allow for student independence.  This 1.5 hour webinar will center on interactive read aloud and writing workshop style lessons.  Request the module for a 3.5 hour self-guided exploration afterwards for a total of 5 credit hours.

 

Presented by Maggie Essig

Explore technology tools that can be integrated into remote instruction to create a multimodal learning environment for English learners where they both create and consume with technology. Participants will learn how technology tools can support English learners as they access prior knowledge and demonstrate understanding. This slower-paced interactive webinar will focus on becoming familiar with 4-5 key technology tools that can be used with English learners in multiple contexts.

Presented by Michele Yanong

Ditch the complicated lesson plans and embrace the idea that school will look different during a pandemic! As families and children deal with unprecedented challenges, this is the time to promote meaningful bits of learning, supported by caring teachers and simple for families to execute in any language.   In this 1.5 hour webinar, we will consider 6 simple, language rich activities that may help to streamline your language instruction.  Bonus templates will be included so that you will be ready to put the ideas to practice!

Presented by Olivia Mulcahy

Students and families are experiencing an unprecedented time in our history.  Are you concerned about the social emotional strain that at-home learning is putting on your students?  Join us for a 1 hour webinar to discuss building choice boards that promote whole child development and reduce trauma.  

Presented by Maggie Essig or Michele Yanong

Wordless picture books, photos, and music can be the perfect tool to engage students in thinking, speaking, and meeting the Common Core ELA standards at any age level and at all levels of language development.  This webinar will help teachers to take a closer look at how to use a favorite “old school tool” with new school technology to engage your students. 

Available as a face-to-face workshop

Available as a webinar

Assessment Practices

Presented by Michele Yanong

  • Understand major principles of language assessment.
  • Learn to apply effective language supports to classroom-based assessments.
  • Add to your assessment toolkit a variety of resources for gauging your students’ listening, speaking, reading, and writing development!

Available as a webinar

Bilingual & Biliteracy Development

Presented by Olivia Mulcahy

Explore, brainstorm and plan for supports to help bilingual learners flourish:

  • The languages and cultures of all of our students are not always visible and audible in the learning environment–let’s explore ways to create a more lush multilingual & multicultural ecology in our schools so everyone’s learning is enriched!
  • The knowledge and skills that are unique to multilingual learners are not reflected in monolingual standards–let’s consider how to create fertile ground in the curriculum to nurture their bilingual talents and enhance learning within any content area!
  • Students’ languages and cultures are deeply connected to their social-emotional learning–let’s embrace practices that honor bilingual ways of knowing and communicating so our bilingual learners can thrive!

Presented by Rachell Anderson

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Presented by Olivia Mulcahy

Dynamic bilingualism and translanguaging refer to the fluid language practices that are common and natural in bilingual communities. Dual language programs can embrace dynamic bilingualism and include translanguaging practices as part of their strategic use of languages to support multilingual learners’ academics, affirm their bilingual identities, and deepen their biliteracy.

  • Explore the concepts: What is dynamic bilingualism? What is translanguaging? What do “translanguaging spaces” look like in dual language education?
  • Examine implications: How can this influence my classroom environment? My instructional practices? My curricular planning?
  • Brainstorm applications: How can this help me support students’ language development, social-emotional well being, and content learning within my programmatic context(s)?

Presented by Rachell Anderson

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Presented by Michele Yanong

  • Reflection time related to cultural and linguistic responsiveness and academic factors for supporting newcomers, refugees, and Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE)
  • Practical resources and links for teaching survival English, as well as critical work in students’ home language (with ideas for teachers who do not speak the language)
  • Answers to the popular question, “Should I start with the ABCs?”
  • Phonics and word work considerations

Presented by Rachell Anderson

  • Deepen your understanding of Spanish literacy skill development in primary aged bilingual learners
  • Examine key practices and strategies for initial Spanish literacy instruction
  • Explore similarities and differences between literacy instruction in Spanish with literacy instruction in English

Presented by Olivia Mulcahy

  • Explore common practices that support biliteracy development of English learners (ELs)
  • Consider a variety of structural, social, and pedagogical supports for biliteracy that are feasible in a variety of Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE) and Transitional Program of Instruction (TPI) and general education settings
  • Brainstorm and network with peers with similar interest in nurturing students’ biliteracy to create initial plans for building and applying biliteracy supports for ELs
Available as a face-to-face workshop

Available as a webinar

Collaboration & Co-Teaching

Presented by Michele Yanong

  • Review collaborative practices
  • Evaluate Co-Labor Models
  • Begin to build strategies and protocols that will support academic language and success for all students
  • Time for Supported Planning

Presented by Michele Yanong

  • Mainstream Teachers and EL Specialists should come together to learn the basics
  • Explore collaborative practices
  • Examine co-teaching models and think through application in your setting
  • Gain foundational knowledge related to EL Development and the WIDA Performance Definitions
  • Explore planning tools and strategies to put into your shared co-teaching toolbox

Presented by Rachell Anderson

  • Learn ways to engage teachers in meaningful collaborative conversations to support instruction of students who are English Learners
  • Compare and contrast instructional coaching practices for general education and EL teachers
  • Explore key instructional practices for teachers of English Learners
Available as a face-to-face workshop

Available as a webinar

Content Specific Instructional Strategies

Presented by Michele Yanong

Ever get the math blah’s?  Spend a day investigating research-based ideas you can use tomorrow to make math doable and lovable for language learners!

  • Examine 4 key practices for building the academic language of math.
  • See sample ideas for over 15 strategies you can use over and over again to conquer the content and language demands of math no matter what math program you use.

Presented by Michele Yanong

  • Explore blended learning models and platforms for structuring blended learning experiences when students are in the classroom setting.
  • Learn about using hyperdocs, collaborative web-based applications, and tech tools for creativity.
  • Consider ways to transform your instruction to engage, excite, and ignite the passions of your students!
Available as a face-to-face workshop

Available as a webinar

Culture, Climate & Equity

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Presented by Olivia Mulcahy

  • Analyze approaches to student discipline through the lenses of language and culture
  • Explore principles and discipline practices that are intentionally attentive to, appropriate, and affirming for multilingual and multicultural communities of students
  • Sample strategies and techniques and brainstorm applications to your own teaching context

Presented by Maggie Essig

  • Explore how to invite and incorporate students’ languages and cultures into all classroom settings as valuable resources that build understanding and validate student identity.
  • Examine how decisions about classroom design, resource selection, instructional strategies, and family communication can create a safe and welcoming environment that facilitate metacognitive, metalinguistic, and metacultural awareness.
  • Learn how to utilize native-language materials even if you do not speak the language.
  • Can be presented as a face-to-face workshop or as a hybrid webinar & asynchronous, structured learning module.

Presented by Olivia Mulcahy

  • Explore the concept and deepen your understanding of culturally and linguistically responsive education.
  • Examine implications of this understanding for your own practice.
  • Brainstorm applications and strategies for your own teaching and learning contexts.
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Family & Community Engagement

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Presented by Michele Yanong

  • Investigate research related to young bilingual children and their families
  • Develop pathways for family engagement
  • Explore avenues for working together with the families and helping them feel comfortable with the school system, while making shifts that reflect cultural responsiveness
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Language & Literacy Development

Presented by Maggie Essig

  • Explore various forms of non-print texts that facilitate language development, content learning, creativity, and critical thinking
  • Strengthen language learners’ literacy skills without the anxiety text can add
  • Learn how to use non-print texts to have students demonstrate their understanding of language and content
  • Leave session with over 50 strategies of how to use non-print texts will all of your students

Presented by Michele Yanong

  • Consider planning steps for a scaffolded writing cycle
  • Fill your toolbox with activities for supporting new authors, such as LEA (Language Experience Approach), Interactive Writing, Non-Print Text Prompts,  Differentiated Writing Frames, and more!
  • Examine writing samples at a variety of language development levels so you are ready to assess the language level of writing samples from your students.

Presented by Michele Yanong

*Part one is a prerequisite to this workshop.

  • View and develop lesson plans to execute a scaffolded writing cycle that work with the materials/programs you have at your disposal
  • Bring student writing samples to build on using your language lens to assess

Presented by Michele Yanong

  • Stop digging for appropriate text!  Adapt what you already have using simple tech tools to make text readable and visual.  Explore free web-based tools such as Canva, Rewordify, and Google Slides.
  • Learn when, why, and how to modify grade level text, diagrams, and infographics to reduce anxiety and boost comprehension for ELs.
  • After a morning of investigation, spend the afternoon creating an adapted text to use with your class.

Presented by Michele Yanong

  • Explore relevant literacy practices for emergent bilinguals with 3 practical considerations, and the research to back them up
  • Examine how to build background through conceptual previews, hands-on explorations, play, and use of native language within literacy lessons
  • Discuss the top strategies for comprehensible input and active engagement of ELs

Presented by Rachell Anderson

  • Examine the importance of structured oracy for multilingual learners
  • Practice strategies that can be utilized to increase conversations in any classroom
  • Learn how to integrate oracy into content objectives when lesson planning

Presented by Rachell Anderson or Olivia Mulcahy

  • Explore challenges and opportunities for English Learners within the writing domain
  • Leverage the rich cultural and linguistic resources to encourage and guide powerful writing
  • Maximize the power of writing to boost other language and literacy domains for English learners
  • Brainstorm implications and applications to your classroom context
Available as a face-to-face workshop

Available as a webinar

Leadership & Advocacy

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Program Design & Development

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Presented by Rachell Anderson

  • Review key components necessary for implementing a Dual Language program
  • Explore ways to develop and sustain a biliteracy model
  • Discuss the importance of embracing a multilingual mindset
  • Examine ways to support administrators, teachers, and families during the transition from a TBE program to a DL program

Presented by Maggie Essig

  • Learn about the characteristics of gifted English Learners
  • Apply current research to develop more equitable methods of identifying and teaching gifted English Learners
  • Examine pathways to rigorous content instruction, higher order thinking skills, and academic language development
  • Explore recommendations and resources from educational and advocacy groups that you can share with colleagues and stakeholders
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Scaffolding & Sheltered Instruction

Presented by Maggie Essig or Michele Yanong

  • Move beyond the vocabulary level of academic language
  • Explore academic language strategies that can be tailored to your context, including content areas or general education classrooms
  • Learn how to analyze the academic language demands of activities and texts
  • Walk away with ideas on how to support academic language in listening, speaking, reading, and writing

Presented by Michele Yanong

  • Examine myths and truths related to serving English Learners
  • Work on writing appropriate content and language objectives
  • Consider practical strategies for supporting ELs with content in the mainstream classroom
  • Learn how to stack supports to increase comprehensibility for lower language development levels

Presented by Olivia Mulcahy

  • Explore the fundamental principles and concepts of Project Based Learning (PBL), and examine them through the perspective of English learner (EL) education.
  • Sample strategies and techniques that are aligned to a PBL approach and are particularly appropriate for language learners.
  • Brainstorm how to apply PBL with increased intention to how it can enhance learning and language development among culturally and linguistically diverse student populations.

Presented by Maggie Essig, an ISTE Certified Educator by the International Society for Technology in Education

  • Explore technology tools that can be integrated into instruction to create a multimodal learning environment for ELs where they both create and consume with technology
  • Learn how technology tools can support ELs as they access prior knowledge and demonstrate understanding
  • Combine technology tools with research-based practices for ELs to design instruction
  • This slower-paced workshop will focus on becoming familiar with 4-5 key technology tools that can be used with ELs in a variety of settings

Presented by Michele Yanong

  • Investigate research related to young bilingual children and their families
  • Explore the WIDA Early-English Language Development (ELD) and ELD standards as well as the Can-Do Descriptors Key Uses
  • Examine how to build background through conceptual previews, hands-on explorations, play, and use of native language

Presented by Olivia Mulcahy

Explore and examine…

  • How exposure to the arts and engaging in the arts benefit students, particularly Multilingual learners (MLs)
  • How the arts can be used as a medium for accessing content, making meaning and building understanding, and demonstrating learning
  • How you can amplify/enhance the role of the arts in your classroom, even if you don’t think of yourself as an artist!

Presented by Maggie Essig or Michele Yanong

  • Break free from traditional professional development with a blend of creativity-inspiring learning
  • Explore gamification, technology integration, and unconventional resources
  • Update lessons with 4 ways to remix what you currently do

Presented by Maggie Essig, an ISTE Certified Educator by the International Society for Technology in Education

  • Explore innovative technology tools that support active language development and content learning
  • See examples of technology-infused activities that provide ELs opportunities for communication, collaboration, and critical thinking
  • This is a fast-paced session with time devoted to designing your own technology-infused lesson or activity

Presented by Michele Yanong

  • The following sessions, support educators in building their capacity to deliver high quality sheltered instruction of all content areas
    • Day 1: Understanding Sheltered Instruction; A Framework You Can Use for All Learners
    • Day 2: Setting Goals and Using Them to Motivate and Engage
    • Day 3: Fully Engaging Students in Meaningful Instruction
    • Day 4: Differentiation and Assessment for Language Development
    • Add-On Days: Can Target Literacy Development, Specific Content Areas, Technology Integration, Assessment, Co-Teaching, and more

Presented by Michele Yanong

  • Evaluate methods for writing and using language objectives
  • Practice drafting objectives for upcoming lessons
  • Leave with strategies and supports for student engagement that make sense and can work in real classrooms

Presented by Maggie Essig

  • Identify and capitalize on assets English Learners bring to the classroom
  • Recognize the teachers’ role in helping ELs navigate challenges they encounter in the classroom
  • Analyze the academic language demands of classroom activities and texts and use that information to select appropriate strategies
  • Investigate research-based principles and strategies to engage English Learners in grade-level content and support academic language development
Available as a face-to-face workshop

Available as a webinar

Social-Emotional Learning

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Presented by Olivia Mulcahy

  • Examine the Social Emotional Learning standards from a “Language and Culture” perspective
  • Consider the aspects of social emotional well being that are unique to or particularly relevant for the English learners in your classroom
  • Consider the benefits of integrating attention to students’ social emotional, linguistic, and cultural funds of knowledge
  • Explore applications to classroom/school environment, instructional activities, and curricular units

Presented by Olivia Mulcahy

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