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SUMMARY:Welcoming and Teaching Newcomers
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Thursday\, June 1\, 2023\nPresenter: Maggie Essig\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 235503068\n\n\n\n\nWelcoming and Teaching Newcomers\n\n\nLearn how to build relationships with newcomer students and their families.\nVisualize welcoming school and classroom environments for newcomer students.\nExplore instructional strategies that will support newcomer students in the classroom.\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 Educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/welcoming-and-teaching-newcomers-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Maggie Essig,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230603T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230603T110000
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SUMMARY:Unit Planning for Multilingual Learners: Incorporating Oracy and Literacy into Content Area Instruction Grades 4-8
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, June 3 2023\nTime: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM\nPresenter: Cristina Sanchez-Lopez\nECPD Credit: 2 Hours\n\nEvent ID: 235503123\n\n\n\n\n\nUnit Planning for Multilingual Learners: Incorporating Oracy and Literacy into Content Area Instruction Grades 4-8 \n\nReview an interactive Learning Cycle Unit Planning Template\nExamine elementary and middle school sample content area unit plans\nDevelop an individual instructional learning cycle unit that incorporates oracy and literacy across a content area.\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: Educators who support multilingual learners’ content area instruction and intervention.
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/unit-planning-for-multilingual-learners-incorporating-oracy-and-literacy-into-content-area-instruction-grades-4-8
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Cristina Sanchez-Lopez,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230606T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230606T180000
DTSTAMP:20260409T103516
CREATED:20230112T173633Z
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SUMMARY:Orgullo and Pride: Affirming LGBTQ Identities in Multilingual Classrooms
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Tuesday\, June 6 \, 2023\nPresenter: Olivia Mulcahy\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 235503046\n\n\n\n\n\nOrgullo and Pride: Affirming LGBTQ Identities in Multilingual Classrooms \nKick off Pride month by learning more about practices to support and celebrate the LGBTQ community in your school! \n\nExamine current law\, policies and guidelines in Illinois for integrating LGBTQ+ history and affirming practices in our schools\, using a lens of language and culture to focus particularly on supporting LGBTQ+ youth in multilingual communities\nExplore strategies and resources to make your learning environment safe\, inclusive\, and affirming for all students\, and particularly LGBTQ+ students in multilingual communities\nBegin to ideate what LGBTQ+ affirming practices can look like in your own multilingual teaching context   \n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/orgullo-and-pride-affirming-lgbtq-identities-in-multilingual-classrooms
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Olivia Mulcahy,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230608T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230608T183000
DTSTAMP:20260409T103516
CREATED:20221026T201059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230530T161359Z
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SUMMARY:Multipurpose Can Do Student Portraits
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Thursday\, June 8\, 2023\nPresenter: Shadia Salem\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 235503103\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-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Shadia Salem,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230610T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230610T110000
DTSTAMP:20260409T103516
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SUMMARY:The Dimensions of Academic Language and Strategies for Integrating Into Instruction and Assessment
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, June 10\, 2023\nPresenter: Vanessa Figueroa\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 235503113\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Dimensions of Academic Language and Strategies for Integrating Into Instruction and Assessment \nTeachers will receive evidence-based strategies and share ideas on strengthening academic language within the classroom. We will explore the dimensions of academic language and their impact on teaching and learning. For example\, we will discuss how to build metalinguistic awareness\, sociocultural awareness and metacognitive awareness in the classroom with the ultimate goal of implementing a culturally responsive curriculum schoolwide. 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\nTarget Audience: K-12 Teachers
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/the-dimensions-of-academic-language-and-strategies-for-integrating-into-instruction-and-assessment-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230611T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230611T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T103516
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SUMMARY:BONUS Free Write: Conversations\, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Sunday\, June 11\, 2023\nTime: 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM\nPresenter: Olivia Mulcahy\nECPD Credit: 2 Hours\n\nEvent ID: 235503047\n\n\n\n\n\nBONUS Free 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? \n  \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\n\nExplore topics relevant to our lives and work as educators through a community writing process \n\n\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 \n\n\nEngage in writing\, reading aloud\, discussion\, and storytelling together around a variety of different themes each month \n\n\nEmerge with insights\, ideas\, and activities from the community writing experience to feed our teacher spirit and refresh our practice \n\n\n  \nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/free-write-3d-meetup
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Olivia Mulcahy,Webinar
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230615T133000
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SUMMARY:Focus on Writing - An In-Person Series on Supporting Multilingual Writers
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: June 13\, 14\, 15\, 2023\nTime: 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM each day\nPresenter: Michele Yanong\nECPD Credit: for all 3 days 12 hours\n\nEvent ID: 235503124\n\n\nLocation: IRC\, 2626 S. Clearbrook Dr. Arlington Hts.\, IL 60005\n\n\nFocus on Writing – An In-Person Series on Supporting Multilingual Writers\n\nIn this 3-Day workshop\, participants will explore writing instruction through a workshop model\, practice using mentor texts to support language acquisition\, and explore routines that create joyful writing experiences!\n\n\nFocus on Writing DAY 1 – Launching the Writing Workshop for Multilingual Learners \n\nExamine a scaffolded writing cycle for MLs and discuss common pitfalls that dissuade new writers from embracing this content area\nThink about what to get ready\, including ideas for writing tools\, rituals\, routines\, and expectations \nLearn how to guide writers in shaping and sharing their multilingual writing identity\nConsider how using writing notebooks can allow your young author’s to shine and provide a perfect place for them to play with words\, ideas\, and their languages within a scaffolded writing cycle\nExplore using personalized notebooks for brainstorming\, collecting ideas\, researching\, and planning.  See examples of when to stay or go back to the notebook and when to move out of the notebook during writing instruction.\nLeave with digital and concrete resources to get your students excited to write!\n\n  \nFocus on Writing DAY 2 – Supporting Multilingual Learners by Modeling and Deconstructing the Genre  \n\nExamine how modeling and deconstructing genres using mentor texts fits into a scaffolded writing cycle for language learners\nSee examples of how to use picture books and other text excerpts to teach genre-specific language\, support grammar and sentence complexity\, guide readers in understanding writing types and structures\, and help learners emulate diverse and bilingual authors\nExplore activities\, response options\, and language-focused anchor chart ideas that you can try right away!\n\n  \nFocus on Writing DAY 3 – If This\, Then That… Assess\, Confer\, Teach\, and Create Author’s Agency with your Multilingual Writers \n\nLearn how to analyze student writing through a language lens on word\, sentence\, and discourse development\nGather tools for the conferral process\, including questions to ask students\, forms to guide self-reflection\, and phrases that affirm student production\nReceive ready-to-use templates\, record-keeping pages\, and lesson ideas that will help you think about your writers in relation to their language development levels\nLeave with more than 15 small group writing ideas that you can put into place in your writing workshop!
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/focus-on-writing-an-in-person-series-on-supporting-multilingual-writers
LOCATION:The Center: Resources for Teaching & Learning\, 2626 S. Clearbrook Drive\, Arlington Heights\, IL\, 60005
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Michele Yanong
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230620T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230620T110000
DTSTAMP:20260409T103516
CREATED:20230112T161910Z
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SUMMARY:Developing Language Without Print: Using Non-Print Texts with Multilingual Learners
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Tuesday\, June 20\, 2023\nPresenter: Maggie Essig\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 235503069\n\n\n\n\n\nDeveloping Language Without Print: Using Non-Print Texts with Multilingual Learners \n\nWhat are non-print texts and where can you find them to enhance instruction for multilingual learners?\nView examples of how non-print texts communicate\, entertain\, inform\, and persuade in the same way as their print-based counterparts.\nWalk away with non-print text strategies that facilitate language development\, content learning\, creativity\, and critical thinking.\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 Educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/developing-language-without-print-using-non-print-texts-with-multilingual-learners-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Maggie Essig,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230620T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230620T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T103516
CREATED:20230222T185906Z
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SUMMARY: Crafting a Multilingual Learning Environment Where Multilingual Learners Thrive
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Tuesday\, June 20\, 2023\nPresenter: Maggie Essig\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 235503070\n\n\n\n\n\n Crafting a Multilingual Learning Environment Where Multilingual Learners Thrive \n\nExamine how educators can build a multilingual learning environment regardless of the language they speak.\nExplore how inviting and incorporating students’ languages and cultures into all classroom settings as valuable resources build understanding and validate student identity.\nSee examples of multilingual classroom design\, resource selection\, instructional strategies\, and family communication that help create a safe and welcoming environment.\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 Educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/crafting-a-multilingual-learning-environment-where-multilingual-learners-thrive-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Maggie Essig,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230624T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230624T110000
DTSTAMP:20260409T103516
CREATED:20230118T165427Z
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SUMMARY:Exploring Academic Language in Content Areas School-wide
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, June 24\, 2023\nPresenter: Vanessa Figueroa\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 235503114\n\n\n\n\nExploring Academic Language in Content Areas School-wide\n\nTeachers will receive evidence-based strategies and share ideas on strengthening academic language across disciplines. We will explore how academic language is used in content areas such as Language Arts\, Science\, Math\, Music\, and Physical Education with the ultimate goal of implementing a culturally responsive curriculum school-wide. 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.   \nTarget Audience: Teachers 2nd -8th grade
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/exploring-academic-language-in-content-areas-school-wide-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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