Register Now   Date: Saturday, January 27, 2024 Presenter: Vanessa Figueroa ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 245503122 Exploring Academic Language in Content Areas School-wide Teachers will receive evidence-based strategies and share ideas on strengthening academic language across disciplines. We will explore how academic language is used in content areas such as Language Arts, Science, Math, Music, and Physical Education with the ultimate goal of implementing a culturally responsive curriculum school-wide. This workshop content will be beneficial for ESL/Bilingual Teachers, Dual Language Teachers or General Education Teachers who would like to learn more about how to support their bilingual [...]

Register Now   Date: Thursday, February 22, 2024 Presenter: Vanessa Figueroa ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 245503126 Teaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Reading: Strategies to Develop Cross-Language Connections & The Interactive Read Aloud   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 [...]

Register Now   Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024 Presenter: Vanessa Figueroa ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 245503128 What is Culturally Responsive Teaching and how can I align it within my practice? The goals of this session are to define culturally responsive teaching (CRT) and identify high leverage teaching strategies that can be applied across grade levels and across content areas in support of culturally and linguistically diverse students. We will explore the WIDA guiding principles of language development as it relates to CRT pedagogical practice. Teachers will walk away with a menu of strategies that align to the [...]

Register Now   Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024 Presenter: Vanessa Figueroa ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 245503129 Teaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Reading: Strategies to Develop Cross-Language Connections & The Interactive Read Aloud  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 [...]

Register Now   Date: Thursday, May 9, 2024 Presenter: Vanessa Figueroa ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 245503130 WIDA Deep Dive: Q & A The goals of this session are to review WIDA Resources such as the WIDA ELD Framework, 2020 Edition as well as identify Spanish language development resources such as Marco DALE and Marco ALE publications. Teachers will have an opportunity to discuss how they leverage WIDA tools in practice while deepening their knowledge of the framework. Audience: Teachers K-12 (Spanish-English)

Register Now   Date: Thursday, August 1, 2024 Presenter: Vanessa Figueroa ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 255503004 Teaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Reading: Shared Reading & Collaborative Reading The goals of this session are to orient to the recommendations for implementing shared reading in a dual language classroom setting: during  Spanish literacy and literacy based English Language Development.  Teachers will have an opportunity to deepen their understanding of comprehension strategies and literacy skills within the content of the whole-group instruction. We will review comprehension strategies and prompts for language support. Escamilla et al (2014) Biliteracy from the Start: [...]