Register Now   Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2026 Presenter: Rachell Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 275503047  Designing Custom Bilingual Readers to Spark Meaningful Spanish Reading Success  Discover how to elevate your early Spanish literacy instruction by crafting custom books that align with the language your students bring to the classroom. This 2-hour webinar empowers you to design tailored bilingual readers using high-utility verbs, giving you the tools to accelerate reading comprehension and ignite student confidence. Honor Natural Language Flow: Learn how to design readers that embrace true bilingualism and explore Spanish syntax by moving beyond rigid, artificial [...]

Register Now   Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2026 Presenter: Rachell Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 275503075 Integrating Trabalenguas, dichos y adivinanzas in Spanish Literacy Do you teach Spanish literacy in a bilingual or dual language program? If yes, then you need to join me for a session geared towards bringing fun and engagement to your instruction through the use of trabalenguas, dichos y adivinanzas. We will explore how to engage students in Spanish literacy and oracy by using fun and popular trabalenguas, dichos, and adivinanzas. We will examine how these non-traditional types of texts can be used [...]

Register Now   Date: Thursday, November 5, 2026 Presenter: Rachell Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 275503076 Leveraging Language in Math: Scaffolds, Visuals, and Translanguaging During this webinar we will… Engineer Word Problems for Accessibility: Learn how to rewrite, chunk, and modify dense math text to reduce linguistic barriers while keeping mathematical rigor high. Anchor Concepts with Targeted Visuals: Discover how to directly pair images, diagrams, and visual representations with key vocabulary and problem contexts to build deep conceptual understanding.  Capitalize on Multilingual Assets: Apply strategic translanguaging practices that integrate students’ home languages as powerful tools for mathematical [...]

Register Now   Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2026 Presenter: Rachell Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 275503077  Putting the Illinois SLA Standards into Action: Lesson Planning for TBE Programs How do we utilize the Illinois Spanish Language Arts standards in daily classroom instruction? This follow-up session provides TBE educators with concrete strategies to plan, align, and implement standards-based Spanish language arts instruction.In this session, we will: Address how to align the SLA standards to traditional TBE program models. Apply SLA standards and essential understandings to weekly and daily lesson planning. Leverage vertical articulation insights to differentiate instruction for [...]

Register Now   Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2026  Presenter: Rachell Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 275503078 The Bilingual Writer’s Toolkit: Syllables, Genre Verbs, and Sentence Mechanics Why do early bilingual writers stall at the word level? Often, it’s not because they lack phonetic knowledge, but because they lack the specific "verb engines" required for different types of writing. This workshop provides K-2 educators with a hands-on roadmap to engineer strong independent sentences in Spanish. Together, we will look at: Phonetic Foundations: Moving beyond basic syllables into complex structures and multi-syllabic endurance. The Genre Shift: Mapping out how [...]