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SUMMARY:Teaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Writing: Modeled Writing & Shared Writing
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, October 7\, 2023\nPresenter: Vanessa Figueroa\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503118\n\n\n\n\n\nTeaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Writing: Modeled Writing & Shared Writing \n  \n\nTeachers will examine modeled writing and shared writing methods and what is unique in the teaching of literacy-based English Language Development (ELD) and Spanish literacy classroom settings. Teachers will receive suggestions for implementing Modeled Writing and Shared Writing across primary and intermediate grade levels. Teachers  will view a model as presented in Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared by Escamilla et. all. This workshop content will be beneficial for Dual Language Teachers\, ESL/Bilingual Teachers\, or General Education Teachers who would like to learn more about how to support their bilingual and/or dual language learners.  \n  \nAudience: Teachers K-5 (Spanish-English)
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/teaching-approaches-to-develop-biliterate-writing-modeled-writing-shared-writing
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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SUMMARY:RAFTing with Multilingual Learners
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Tuesday\, October 10\, 2023\nPresenter: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503040\n\n\n\n\n\nRAFTing with Multilingual Learners \nDuring this event\, EL/Bilingual/Dual Language educators will: \n Examine the structure of RAFT (Role\, Audience\, Format\, and Topic) \n\nExplore a variety of tools and ideas that can support students with higher proficiency levels (PLs of 3-5)\nDevelop our own tool banks for supporting students in expressive language skills\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: Educators and leaders who serve multilingual students 
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/rafting-with-multilingual-learners
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T180000
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SUMMARY:Canciones y dichos y adivinanzas\, oh my!
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Wednesday\, October 11\, 2023\nPresenter: Rachell Plote\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503094\n\n\n\n\n\nCanciones y dichos y adivinanzas\, oh my! \nDo you teach Spanish literacy in a bilingual or dual language program? If  you enjoyed my session on Teaching with trabalenguas\, then you’ll love this session! Join me for a look at how canciones (songs)\, dichos (sayings)\, and adivinazas (riddles) can be used to support teaching Spanish language and literacy. \n\nWe will explore how to engage students during Spanish literacy and oracy by using fun and popular canciones\, dichos\, and adivinanzas.\nWe will examine how these types of texts can be used as a way to teach foundational literacy skills by providing students with many different examples of Spanish language and culture.\nWe will look at examples for using canciones\, dichos\, and adivinanzas in Spanish Language Arts\, as well as connecting to English Language Arts for metalinguistic development.\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-5 Teachers of Spanish Literacy
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/canciones-y-dichos-y-adivinanzas-oh-my
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Rachell Plote,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231015T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231015T170000
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SUMMARY:Free Write: Conversations\, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Sunday\, October 15\, 2023\nPresenter: Olivia Mulcahy\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503042\n\n\n\n\n\nFree Write: Conversations\, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice \nAre you an educator craving creative space where you can connect\, generate\, and share ideas with a community of colleagues? Are you hungry for ideas and inspiration to enhance teaching and learning in your culturally and linguistically diverse classroom? Are you interested in exploring how the experience of writing can help you deepen your practice?  \nWhether you already enjoy writing or have a rocky relationship with writing\, you are invited to join us for one\, some\, or all of the Free Write sessions! Once a month on Sunday afternoons we will get together to: \n\nExplore topics relevant to our lives and work as educators through a community writing process\nExamine poetry\, picture books\, and other texts to prompt our own thinking/writing and imagine how they might apply in the context of our own classrooms and other learning communities \nEngage in writing\, reading aloud\, discussion\, and storytelling together around a variety of different themes each month\nEmerge with insights\, ideas\, and activities from the community writing experience to feed our teacher spirit and refresh our practice     \n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/free-write-conversations-connections-compositions-to-nourish-our-teaching-practice-6
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Olivia Mulcahy,Webinar
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231019T180000
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SUMMARY:Strengthening Writing in a Bilingual and Dual Language Classroom (Spanish-English)
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Thursday\, October 19\, 2023\nPresenter: Vanessa Figueroa\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503119\n\n\n\n\n\nStrengthening Writing in a Bilingual and Dual Language Classroom (Spanish-English)\n\n\nTeachers will receive evidence-based strategies and share ideas on how to strengthen writing for their bilingual and dual language learners (Spanish-English). We will examine writing rubrics\, student work and teaching techniques that can be utilized in practice.  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 and/or dual language learners.   \n\nAudience: Teachers grades K-2 (Spanish-English)
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/strengthening-writing-in-a-bilingual-and-dual-language-classroom-spanish-english
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231021T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231021T110000
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SUMMARY:Key Language Uses: A Functional Approach to Language Development
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, October 21\, 2023\nPresenter: Shadia Salem\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503106\n\n\n\n\nKey Language Uses: A Functional Approach to Language Development\n\nDesigned for educators and leaders who are responsible for the integration of English language development within content learning\, this workshop will focus on the Key Language Uses\, one of the four components of the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework. Participants will receive resources to support the implementation of the Key Language Uses. \nEssential Questions: \n\nHow do Key Language Uses foster a functional approach to language development?\n\n\nWhy should educators frame English Language Development Standards around Key Language Uses? \n\n\nIn what ways can the Four Key Language Uses represent prominent language uses across the disciplines?\n\n\nHow can educators integrate Key Language Uses within content learning?\n\nTarget Audience: K-12 Administrators\, Teacher Leaders\, and Teachers.
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/key-language-uses-a-functional-approach-to-language-development-3
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Shadia Salem,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231028T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231028T110000
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SUMMARY:Balancing Language and Content Objectives in the Upper Grades
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, October 28\, 2023\nPresenter: Vanessa Figueroa\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503120\n\n\n\n\n\nBalancing Language and Content Objectives in the Upper Grades \n\n  \nTeachers will receive evidence-based strategies and share ideas on how to balance language and content objectives when planning for their multilingual learners. We will examine how to build literacy across content areas and set priorities that align to the needs of individual students. We will examine assessments in core content areas and make modifications aligned to students’ stages of language development as evidenced in their writing and oral language development. We will be leveraging the tools from the WIDA 2020 framework to build a common understanding around assessing students’ interpretive and expressive skills. 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 multilingual learners.   \n  \nAudience: Secondary Education Teachers grades (6-12)
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/balancing-language-and-content-objectives-in-the-upper-grades-3
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231030T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231030T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T071657
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SUMMARY:ML Teacher Toolbox:  Don't Spook Them!  Use Sneaky Pop-Up Grammar
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Monday\, October 30\, 2023\nPresenter: Michele Yanong\nECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour\n\nEvent ID: 245503046\n\n\n\n\n\n\nML Teacher Toolbox:  Don’t Spook Them!  Use Sneaky Pop-Up Grammar  \n\n\nDoes English grammar instruction feel like a walk through a haunted house… a scary and confusing endeavor? \n\nIn this session\, you will learn about Krashen’s natural order theory for language/grammar acquisition\, which can give you a road map for appropriate grammar instruction for emergent bilinguals.\nCome explore how well-timed pop-up grammar can contextualize grammar usage and help create successful outputs from students. \nLeave with concrete ideas for when and how to use pop-up grammar in any setting\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 Educators of Multilingual Learners
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/ml-teacher-toolbox-dont-spook-them-use-sneaky-pop-up-grammar
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Michele Yanong,Webinar
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