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SUMMARY:TBE-Spanish: Compliance\, Quality y Calidad!  
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Tuesday\, May 12\, 2026\nPresenter: Vanessa Figueroa & Olivia Mulcahy\nECPD Credit: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 265503105\n\n\n\n\n\nTBE-Spanish: Compliance\, Quality y Calidad!   \nThe goals of the session include the following: \n\nExamine the essential components that define a Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE) program–English language development\, Content in English\, History and Culture of US and Home Country\, Content in Spanish\, Spanish language development\nExplore pedagogies and practices to strengthen each of these components\nConsider what kinds of structures\, climate and culture will create fertile ground for growing robust TBE programming\n\nWe will particularly concentrate on what is often one of the biggest challenges–turning up the volume of the home language in instruction–focusing in this session on what this can look like in Spanish-English TBE programs. We will explore: Translanguaging\, cross-language connections\, scaffolding strategies that integrate content and language. Additionally\, we will discuss stories of practice and share resources to help build strong\, high-quality TBE programming. \nTarget Audience: K-12 educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/tbe-spanish-compliance-quality-y-calidad
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Teaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Reading: Strategies to Develop Cross-Language Connections & The Interactive Read Aloud
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Thursday\, May 14\, 2026\nPresenter: Vanessa Figueroa\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 265503074\n\n\n\n\n\nTeaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Reading: Strategies to Develop Cross-Language Connections & The Interactive Read Aloud \n\n Teachers will explore a variety of research-based strategies to support literacy-based English Language Development in a dual language English-Spanish classroom setting\, a transitional bilingual classroom or other language resource model. Some of the literacy based strategies include making cross-language connections (Metalanguage) and Interactive Read Aloud. This seminar is one of a series of workshops aimed at developing biliteracy. The goals of this series are to develop an awareness of what research says about the importance of metalanguage\, literacy-based ELD and identify teaching approaches that develop biliterate reading. The series will target the English-Spanish dual language classroom setting\, but the strategies can be administered across program models that support culturally and linguistically diverse students.  Escamilla et all (2014) Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared will be among the primary tools leveraged in this series as well other research-based resources. \n  \nAudience: Teachers K-5 (Spanish-English)
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/teaching-approaches-to-develop-biliterate-reading-strategies-to-develop-cross-language-connections-the-interactive-read-aloud-5
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Authentic Assessment Options of Multilingual Learners
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, May 30\, 2026\nPresenter: Vanessa Figueroa\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 265503075\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthentic Assessment Options of Multilingual Learners \n\nThe goal of the session is to discuss a variety of options to authentically assess  multilingual learners such as through paper-based and/or digital portfolios. We will discuss ways to examine language development across the language domains: listening\, speaking\, reading\, writing\, representing as well as a tool to assess their level of acculturation.   \nTarget Audience: Teachers-All Levels
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/authentic-assessment-options-of-multilingual-learners-4
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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