Register Now   Date: Friday, April 30, 2021 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 5 Event ID: 215503050 Bilingual Kids Bloom! Cultivating Learning In-between Languages and Cultures  Participants are invited to 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 and 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 […]

Register Now   Date: Friday, May 14, 2021 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 5 Event ID: 215503056 Universal Design for Learning, for ELs and Everyone Participants are invited to: Examine the fundamental concepts of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and how UDL principles can inform our approach to teaching English learners Explore structures, strategies, and tools to make your learning environment maximally accessible and effective for English learners Ideate and plan for application of UDL inspired ideas in your own teaching context TARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 educators NOTE: This virtual workshop will include both a live webinar and a self-paced [...]

Register Now   Date: Thursday, June 3, 2021 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 5 Event ID: 215503007 Equity, Equidad, Ekuitas: Social Justice Pedagogy in Multilingual Classrooms  Participants are invited to engage in a live online session and a module for asynchronous learning in which we will: Examine the issue of equity in schools and the concept of social justice pedagogy with particular attention to what they mean in multilingual learning communities Explore instructional practices that promote and enact a commitment to equity, as well as ways to explicitly integrate themes of social justice [...]