Becoming Multilingual Champions: Front Office Edition
WebinarRegister Now Date: Monday, March 10, 2025 Presenters: Carly Spina, Adelicia Brienzo ECPD Credit Hours: 1.5 hours Event ID: 255503090 Becoming Multilingual Champions: Front Office Edition During this event, school front office & district office staff, registrars, clerks, secretaries, receptionists, and greeters will: identify current barriers in our schools and districts in serving and supporting families using linguistically and culturally responsive practices Review a tool bank of resources and tools to support our work Create our own individual action plans! TARGET AUDIENCE: school front office & district office staff, registrars, clerks, secretaries, receptionists, and greeters
Becoming Multilingual Champions: Front Office Edition
WebinarRegister Now Date: Monday, March 10, 2025 Presenters: Carly Spina, Adelicia Brienzo ECPD Credit Hours: 1.5 hours Event ID: 255503091 Becoming Multilingual Champions: Front Office Edition During this event, school front office & district office staff, registrars, clerks, secretaries, receptionists, and greeters will: identify current barriers in our schools and districts in serving and supporting families using linguistically and culturally responsive practices Review a tool bank of resources and tools to support our work Create our own individual action plans! TARGET AUDIENCE: school front office & district office staff, registrars, clerks, secretaries, receptionists, and greeters
ML Teacher Toolbox: About-Point Strategy
WebinarRegister Now Date: Monday, March 10, 2025 Presenter: Michele Yanong ECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour Event ID: 255503107 ML Teacher Toolbox: About-Point Strategy Want to help your multilingual learners grasp and explain key concepts? Join me for a practical webinar showcasing the About-Point strategy, a powerful tool for boosting comprehension and summarizing skills. Learn how this simple technique empowers students to identify main ideas, moving from words, to sentences, to paragraphs. Discover ways to differentiate the activity for a wide span of learners, see student facing examples, and grab a few ready-to-use templates that you can use right away! [...]
Enhancing Writing Skills through a Language Lens
WebinarRegister Now Date: Saturday, March 15, 2025 Presenter: Shadia Salem ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 255503080 Enhancing Writing Skills through a Language Lens In this workshop, participants will dig deeper into WIDA’s Writing Rubric and the ACCESS for ELLs Writing Scoring Scale to help support the understanding of writing expectations with a language proficiency level lens. Participants will be able to analyze student writing with a language lens and learn about ways they can apply success criteria, expected language use, and student-goal setting to enhance student writing instruction. Essential Questions: How can WIDA’s Writing Rubric and the [...]
Using bilingual books to support el desarrollo bilingüe
WebinarRegister Now Date: Tuesday, March, 18 2025 Presenter: Rachell Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 255503060 Using bilingual books to support el desarrollo bilingüe Join me for an exploration of various types of bilingual text. Together we’ll examine how these texts can be used during instruction in bilingual and dual language classrooms. We will explore many different examples of Spanish/English bilingual books, and also some from other languages We will examine how bilingual books can support translanguaging use in the classroom We will consider ways to incorporate the use of bilingual text in your instructional practice as [...]
IRC’s EmpowerCon: A One-Day Mini Conference
Lewis University - Oak Brook Campus 1111 W 22nd St., Ste.700, Oak Brook, IL, United StatesRegister Now Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025 Presenter: All IRC Specialists ECPD Credit Hours: 5 hours Event ID: 255503105 Location: Lewis University Oak Brook 1111 W 22nd St Oak Brook, IL 60523 IRC’s EmpowerCon: A One-Day Mini Conference The Illinois Resource Center is proud to host a one-day mini conference that will support educators and leaders to feel empowered and equipped to lead in their schools and districts. This free, in-person conference will provide teachers with [...]
Free Write: Conversations, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
WebinarRegister Now Date: Sunday, March 23, 2025 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 255503041 Free Write: Conversations, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice Are 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? Whether you already enjoy writing or have a rocky relationship with writing, you are invited [...]
Encouraging el flujo of responses bilingües
WebinarRegister Now Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 Presenter: Rachell Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour Event ID: 255503055 Encouraging el flujo of responses bilingües Let’s talk about supporting our bilingual students; those students who are navigating more than one language on a daily basis. We’ll explore strategies for encouraging students to express themselves orally and in writing using the translanguaging that is natural for them. You’ll leave with ideas to try immediately to help encourage students to fluidly express themselves bilingually. TARGET AUDIENCE: Bilingual/ Dual Language Educators
Supporting Elementary Newcomers
Illinois Resource Center , United StatesRegister Now Date: Friday, April 4, 2025 Presenter: Carly Spina ECPD Credit Hours: 4.5 hours Event ID: 255503104 Location: The Center: IRC 2626 S. Clearbrook Dr. Arlington Heights, IL 60005 Supporting Elementary Newcomers During this event, elementary educators serving multilingual learners will: Discuss ways to bank on inclusive experiences that benefit newcomer students Design systems to provide a welcoming environment and positive transition Explore a variety of tools and ideas that can help to make content more comprehensible Receive [...]
Key Language Uses: A Functional Approach to Language Development
WebinarRegister Now Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025 Presenter: Shadia Salem ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 255503078 Key Language Uses: A Functional Approach to Language Development Designed 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. Essential Questions: How do Key Language Uses foster a functional approach to language development? Why should educators frame English [...]
