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SUMMARY:Ready\, Set\, ACCESS! Preparing for the ACCESS Assessment 
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, December 9\, 2023\nPresenter: Shadia Salem\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503111\n\n\n\n\n\nReady\, Set\, ACCESS! Preparing for the ACCESS Assessment  \n  \nDesigned for educators and leaders who are responsible for supporting and administrating the ACCESS assessment to English Learners\, this comprehensive workshop aims to equip participants with the essential knowledge and skills necessary to prepare their students for the state summative assessment. Participants will: \n\nLearn effective instructional practices to support student success on the ACCESS assessment\nExplore system-wide practices that enhance the assessment experience\nCreate an action plan to prepare students for the upcoming ACCESS assessment\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: Teachers\, Instructional Coaches\, Administrators 
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/ready-set-access-preparing-for-the-access-assessment-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Shadia Salem,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Free Write: Conversations\, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Sunday\, December 10\, 2023\nPresenter: Olivia Mulcahy\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503060\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-8
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Olivia Mulcahy,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Unlock the Potential of Wordless Books for Multilingual Learners
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Tuesday\, December 12\, 2023\nPresenter: Maggie Essig\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503062\n\n\n\n\n\nUnlock the Potential of Wordless Books for Multilingual Learners \n\nExplore how wordless books can be used with multilingual learners at any age to develop language skills and teach content. \nView examples of wordless books appropriate for various grade levels and English language proficiency levels.\nWalk away with strategies using wordless books you can immediately use!\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 Educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/unlock-the-potential-of-wordless-books-for-multilingual-learners-3
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Maggie Essig,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231213T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231213T110000
DTSTAMP:20260407T101720
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SUMMARY:Checking your MTSS Structures for Multilingual Student Equity
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Wednesday\, December 13\, 2023\nPresenter: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503061\n\n\n\n\n\nChecking your MTSS Structures for Multilingual Student Equity \nDuring this event\, EL/Bilingual/Dual Language educators and leaders will: \n\nReview key ideas and components of MTSS\nExplore common practices within MTSS structures that be may be problematic for multilingual learners\nReview current resources that can support us in this work\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: Educators\, instructional coaches\, and leaders who support multilingual learners\, their families\, and programming
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/checking-your-mtss-structures-for-multilingual-student-equity-3
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231214T160000
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SUMMARY:ML Teacher Toolbox:  Mindful Use of Graphic Organizers
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Thursday\, December 14\, 2023\nPresenter: Michele Yanong\nECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour\n\nEvent ID: 245503064\n\n\n\n\n\n\nML Teacher Toolbox:  Mindful Use of Graphic Organizers \n  \nWe all know that graphic organizers are useful tools for supporting multilingual learners\, but selection\, proper usage\, and language support can transform their powers to create higher levels of success. \n\nDiscuss common pitfalls of the use of graphic organizers for multilingual learners\, and learn some selection and scaffolding tips\nSee examples of modifications or additions to common graphic organizers that foster language growth\nLeave with ready-to-use templates to use with your students\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 Educators of Multilingual Learners
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/ml-teacher-toolbox-mindful-use-of-graphic-organizers
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Michele Yanong,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Teaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Writing: Modeled Writing & Shared Writing
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, December 16\, 2023\nPresenter: Vanessa Figueroa\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503124\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-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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