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SUMMARY:Supporting Multilingual Students through Interpretive Skills (Listening\, Reading\, Viewing)
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Tuesday\, February 6\, 2023\nPresenter: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503077\n\n\n\n\n\nSupporting Multilingual Students through Interpretive Skills (Listening\, Reading\, Viewing)\n\n\nDuring this event\, EL/Bilingual/Dual Language educators will: \n\nExamine Interpretive Language Skills across proficiency levels\nExplore ways to scaffold students as they listen\, read\, and view content \nDesign a tool bank of resources to share with colleagues\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: Educators and leaders who serve multilingual students 
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/supporting-multilingual-students-through-interpretive-skills-listening-reading-viewing-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,Webinar
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SUMMARY:ML Teacher Toolbox:  On Your Feet Strategies and Structures
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Wednesday\, February 7\, 2024\nPresenter: Michele Yanong\nECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour\n\nEvent ID: 245503078\n\n\n\n\n\nML Teacher Toolbox:  On Your Feet Strategies and Structures\n\n\nWe all know that kids of all ages need to move!  Join me in exploring productive and meaningful activities that get students engaged and on their feet in the classroom. \n\nExamine the benefits of meaningful movement for MLs and everyone else\nSee examples of cooperative structures and movement protocols that promote interaction and language acquisition\nLeave with ready-to-use resources to use with your students in any content area \n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 Educators of Multilingual Learners
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/ml-teacher-toolbox-on-your-feet-strategies-and-structures
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Michele Yanong,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Multipurpose Can Do Student Portraits
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, February 10\, 2024\nPresenter: Shadia Salem\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503110\n\n\n\n\n\nMultipurpose Can Do Student Portraits\n\nA Can Do Student Portrait focuses on a student’s strengths with information about the learner’s educational background\, languages\, family\, and interests. Learn about how Student Portraits can be multipurpose and impactful for educators and students in the beginning\, middle\, and end of the school year. Participants will receive resources to help implement Can Do  Student Portraits throughout the year.  \nEssential Questions: \n\nHow can we leverage student assets and challenge biases with Student Portraits?\n\n\nIn what ways can Student Portraits support educators throughout the year?\n\nTarget Audience: K-12 Administrators\, Program Coordinators\, Teacher Leaders\, and Teachers
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/multipurpose-can-do-student-portraits-4
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Shadia Salem,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240211T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240211T170000
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SUMMARY:Free Write: Conversations\, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Sunday\, February 11\, 2024\nPresenter: Olivia Mulcahy\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503080\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-10
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Olivia Mulcahy,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Canciones y dichos y adivinanzas\, oh my!
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Tuesday\, February 13\, 2024\nPresenter: Rachell Plote\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503098\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanciones y dichos y adivinanzas\, oh my!\n\n\n\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\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\n  \nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-5 Teachers of Spanish Literacy
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/canciones-y-dichos-y-adivinanzas-oh-my-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Rachell Plote,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\, February 22\, 2024\nPresenter: Vanessa Figueroa\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503126\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Reading: Strategies to Develop Cross-Language Connections & The Interactive Read Aloud \n\n  \nTeachers 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
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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