Defining and Refining Our Language and Culture Lenses
August 24, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
| Free
If we bring deliberate attention to the role of language and culture in schools, we can build our knowledge and confidence around practices that serve students who are classified as English learners and all students in our multilingual communities. Bringing language and culture into focus as we examine our curriculum and instruction can help us keep students centered and deepen their learning.
Together we will:
- Identify the experiences that have shaped our own understandings of language and culture and reflect on the relationships these have with teaching and learning
- Explore concepts, resources, and strategies that can deepen and enhance our understandings of language, language development, instruction for language learners, culture, and serving multilingual communities
- Employ these lenses to examine some common practices in schools and consider how these lenses might be a useful tool to examine practice in our own schooling contexts
TARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 Educators
Event Description:
**Participants must attend the two-hour live session (Part A) in order to be eligible to complete the optional reflection/application (Part B) to earn an additional three hours of professional development credits.
This professional learning experience will include both synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities. Participants can earn up to a total of five hours of professional development credits for their participation in Parts A and B.
Part A: a live 90-minute webinar accompanied by a 30-minute question and answer portion. Participants will receive two hours of professional development credits for their participation in Part A.
Part B (optional): a follow-up to Part A, after attending the live webinar, participants will reflect and apply their learning to their own practice. Participants may earn three hours of additional professional learning credits by completing the reflection/application document and submitting the completion form within two weeks of participating in the live webinar.
