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SUMMARY:Launching the School Year as an EL Teacher: Routines that Will Strengthen Partnerships with Classroom & Content Teachers
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Wednesday\, September 6\, 2023\nPresenter: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503021\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaunching the School Year as an EL Teacher: Routines that Will Strengthen Partnerships with Classroom & Content Teachers \nDuring this event\, EL/Bilingual/Dual Language educators will: \n\nIdentify pieces of our roles that focus on supporting our colleagues in our schools\nDevelop a tool bank and calendar of resources and tools to support our colleagues\nCreate an action plan with tasks to successfully launch our school year as EL teachers!\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: Educators\, instructional coaches\, and leaders who support multilingual learners\, their families\, and programming
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/launching-the-school-year-as-an-el-teacher-routines-that-will-strengthen-partnerships-with-classroom-content-teachers-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230908T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230908T110000
DTSTAMP:20260405T132827
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SUMMARY:Checking your MTSS Structures for Multilingual Student Equity
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Friday\, September 8\, 2023\nPresenter: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503023\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
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230909T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230909T110000
DTSTAMP:20260405T132827
CREATED:20230718T185620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230718T185620Z
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SUMMARY:Introducing the WIDA ELD Standards Framework
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, September 9\, 2023\nPresenter: Shadia Salem\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503105\n\n\n\n\nIntroducing the WIDA ELD Standards Framework\n\nDesigned for educators and leaders who are responsible for the integration of English language development within content learning\, this workshop will overview the four components of the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework. Participants will receive resources to support the implementation of the WIDA ELD Standards Framework. \nEssential Questions: \n\nHow do the framework components work together to make a comprehensive picture of language development?\n\n\nIn what ways can the Four Key Language Uses represent prominent language uses across the disciplines?\n\n\nHow do Language Expectations create visible ways students need to use language to meet grade-level academic content standards?\n\n\nIn what ways can the Proficiency Level Descriptors describe typical ways multilingual learners might develop across six levels of English proficiency?\n\nTarget Audience: K-12 Administrators\, Teacher Leaders\, and Teachers
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/introducing-the-wida-eld-standards-framework-3
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Shadia Salem,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230910T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230910T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T132827
CREATED:20230605T203057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230605T203057Z
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SUMMARY:Free Write: Conversations\, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Sunday\, September 10\, 2023\nPresenter: Olivia Mulcahy\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503024\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFree Write: Conversations\, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice\n\n\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? Whether 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-5
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Olivia Mulcahy,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230911T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230911T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T132827
CREATED:20230626T195528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T195528Z
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SUMMARY: Teaching With Trabalenguas
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Monday\, September 11\, 2023\nPresenter: Rachell Plote\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503025\n\n\n\n\n\n Teaching With Trabalenguas \nDo you teach Spanish literacy in a bilingual or dual language program? Or do you just want to expand your understanding of Spanish literacy instruction? Join me for a look at how trabalenguas (tongue twisters) can be used to support teaching reading in Spanish. \n\nWe will explore how to “hook” students into literacy and oracy concepts by using fun and popular trabalenguas (tongue twisters in Spanish).\nWe will examine how trabalenguas can be used as a way to teach foundational literacy skills by providing students with many different examples of Spanish language.\nWe will look at examples for using trabalenguas in Spanish Language Arts\, as well as connecting to English Language Arts for metalinguistic development.\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-5 Teachers of Spanish Literacy
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/teaching-with-trabalenguas
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Rachell Plote,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230912T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230912T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T132827
CREATED:20230607T202319Z
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SUMMARY:Launching the School Year as an EL Teacher: Routines that Will Strengthen Partnerships with Classroom & Content Teachers
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Tuesday\, September 12\, 2023\nPresenter: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaunching the School Year as an EL Teacher: Routines that Will Strengthen Partnerships with Classroom & Content Teachers \nDuring this event\, EL/Bilingual/Dual Language educators will: \n\nIdentify pieces of our roles that focus on supporting our colleagues in our schools\nDevelop a tool bank and calendar of resources and tools to support our colleagues\nCreate an action plan with tasks to successfully launch our school year as EL teachers!\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: Educators\, instructional coaches\, and leaders who support multilingual learners\, their families\, and programming
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/launching-the-school-year-as-an-el-teacher-routines-that-will-strengthen-partnerships-with-classroom-content-teachers-3
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230917T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230917T150000
DTSTAMP:20260405T132827
CREATED:20230711T193246Z
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SUMMARY:Multilingual Literacy Strand: Renovate Your Read-Aloud Grades K-5
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Sunday\, September 17\, 2023\nPresenter: Michele Yanong\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503029\n\n\n\n\n\nMultilingual Literacy Strand: Renovate Your Read-Aloud Grades K-5 \n\nExplore ways to increase student interaction with text by strategically using the think-aloud process during classroom read-alouds to elicit reactions\, responses\, and reflections.\nDiscover how to incorporate culturally and linguistically responsive practices during the interactive read-aloud experience \nView samples and resources\n\nTarget Audience: K-5 teachers
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/multilingual-literacy-strand-renovate-your-read-aloud-grades-k-5
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Michele Yanong,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230920T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230920T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T132827
CREATED:20230607T204529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230607T204529Z
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SUMMARY:Welcoming and Teaching Newcomers
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Wednesday\, September 20\, 2023\nPresenter: Maggie Essig\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503032\n\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-3
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Maggie Essig,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230921T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230921T110000
DTSTAMP:20260405T132827
CREATED:20230824T141755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230824T181204Z
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SUMMARY:St Clair ROE - Serving English Learners in Illinois
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \nDate: Thursday\, September 21\, 2023\nPresenter: Maggie Essig\nCredit Hours: 2 hours\n\n\nSt Clair ROE – Serving English Learners in Illinois\n\n***This session will equip administrators with knowledge of the rules\, laws\, and best practices pertaining to programs that serve English Learners (EL) in Illinois. Become familiar with the legal and educational frameworks needed to effectively support and advocate for English Learners\, fostering an inclusive and equitable learning environment.
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/st-clair-roe-serving-english-learners-in-illinois
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Maggie Essig,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230921T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230921T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T132827
CREATED:20230705T193311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T193311Z
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SUMMARY:Building Background Bilingually
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Thursday\, September 21\, 2023\nPresenter: Rachell Plote\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503034\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding Background Bilingually \n\nIn this webinar we will take a look at how to activate prior knowledge of text and increase student understanding by building background bilingually.\nWe will explore how to support students in both Spanish and English literacy through bilingual pre-reading activities.\nWe will examine ways to create a conceptual preview that allows for all students to have multiple entry points into a text.\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-5 Teachers of Bilingual Learners
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/building-background-bilingually-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Rachell Plote,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230929T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230929T110000
DTSTAMP:20260405T132827
CREATED:20230804T163124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230807T140137Z
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SUMMARY:Serving Multilingual Learners: Paraprofessionals Introduction
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Friday\, September 29\, 2023\nPresenter: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour\n\nEvent ID: 245503037\n\n\n\n\n\nServing Multilingual Learners: Paraprofessionals Introduction \nDuring this event\, EL/Bilingual/Dual Language paraprofessionals will: \n\nReceive background information about the large umbrella of multilingual learners\nReceive a brief overview of WIDA proficiency levels \nExplore a variety of tools and ideas that can support students with instruction in the classroom and “on the fly.” \n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: Paraeducators who serve multilingual students 
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/serving-multilingual-learners-paraprofessionals-introduction-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,Webinar
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