Register Now   Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2026 Presenter: Rachell Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 275503077  Putting the Illinois SLA Standards into Action: Lesson Planning for TBE Programs How do we utilize the Illinois Spanish Language Arts standards in daily classroom instruction? This follow-up session provides TBE educators with concrete strategies to plan, align, and implement standards-based Spanish language arts instruction.In this session, we will: Address how to align the SLA standards to traditional TBE program models. Apply SLA standards and essential understandings to weekly and daily lesson planning. Leverage vertical articulation insights to differentiate instruction for [...]

Register Now   Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2026  Presenter: Rachell Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 275503078 The Bilingual Writer’s Toolkit: Syllables, Genre Verbs, and Sentence Mechanics Why do early bilingual writers stall at the word level? Often, it’s not because they lack phonetic knowledge, but because they lack the specific "verb engines" required for different types of writing. This workshop provides K-2 educators with a hands-on roadmap to engineer strong independent sentences in Spanish. Together, we will look at: Phonetic Foundations: Moving beyond basic syllables into complex structures and multi-syllabic endurance. The Genre Shift: Mapping out how [...]