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SUMMARY:Multilingual Literacy Strand: Nothing Small About It! Supporting Students in Small Group Literacy K-5
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Sunday\, November 5\, 2023\nPresenter: Michele Yanong\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503048\n\n\n\n\nMultilingual Literacy Strand: Nothing Small About It! Supporting Students in Small Group Literacy K-5\n\n\n\nCome build a “guided reading ready” kit to support your multilingual learners and everyone else\nConsider ways to embed language objectives into your guided reading lessons for students at a variety of language development levels.  This will include tips for grouping\, text selection\, and instruction\nLearn how to support students based on their needs in strategy groups (including phonemic awareness\, phonics\, word work\, and language forms and features)\n\nTarget Audience: K-5 teachers
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/multilingual-literacy-strand-nothing-small-about-it-supporting-students-in-small-group-literacy-k-5
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Michele Yanong,Webinar
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SUMMARY:ML Teacher Toolbox:  Engineering Grade-Level Texts
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Monday\, November 6\, 2023\nPresenter: Michele Yanong\nECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour\n\nEvent ID: 245503049\n\n\n\n\n\nML Teacher Toolbox:  Engineering Grade-Level Texts\n\n\nDo you struggle to scaffold the reading of grade-level text for your students?   \n\nCome learn how to engineer grade-level texts to make them more comprehensible for your students.  We will kick things off by exploring completed samples at several grade levels.\nConsider times when grade level text will be outside the zone of proximal development for your students\, and how to modify text to an appropriate level using online platforms or AI tools.  \nWatch a live demonstration of how to do this\, so that you will be ready to do it quickly on your own.\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 Educators of Multilingual Learners
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/ml-teacher-toolbox-engineering-grade-level-texts
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Michele Yanong,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231109T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231109T180000
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SUMMARY:The Dimensions of Academic Language and Strategies for Integrating Into Instruction and Assessment
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Thursday\, November 9\, 2023\nPresenter: Vanessa Figueroa\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503121\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Dimensions of Academic Language and Strategies for Integrating Into Instruction and Assessment \n\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.  \nAudience: Teachers (Spanish-English)
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/the-dimensions-of-academic-language-and-strategies-for-integrating-into-instruction-and-assessment-3
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231110T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231110T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T134300
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SUMMARY:Supporting Multilingual Students through Interpretive Skills (Listening\, Reading\, Viewing)
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Friday\, November 10\, 2023\nPresenter: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503051\n\n\n\n\n\nSupporting Multilingual Students through Interpretive Skills (Listening\, Reading\, Viewing) \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
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231112T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231112T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T134300
CREATED:20230727T204813Z
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SUMMARY:Free Write: Conversations\, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Sunday\, November 12\, 2023\nPresenter: Olivia Mulcahy\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503052\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-7
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Olivia Mulcahy,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Supporting Multilingual Students through Expressive Skills (Speaking\, Writing\, Representing)
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Friday\, November 17\, 2023\nPresenter: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503055\n\n\n\n\n\nSupporting Multilingual Students through Expressive Skills (Speaking\, Writing\, Representing) \nDuring this event\, EL/Bilingual/Dual Language educators will: \n\nExamine Expressive Language Skills across proficiency levels\nExplore ways to scaffold students as they speak\, write\, and represent 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-expressive-skills-speaking-writing-representing
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231118T090000
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SUMMARY:Language Expectations: Making Language Visible in Academic Content Standards
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, November 18\, 2023\nPresenter: Shadia Salem\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503107\n\n\n\n\nLanguage Expectations: Making Language Visible in Academic Content Standards\n\nDesigned for educators and leaders who are responsible for the integration of English language development within content learning\, this workshop will focus on Language Expectations\, one of the four components of the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework. Language Expectations are goals for content-driven language instruction. Participants will receive resources to support the implementation of Language Expectations. \nEssential Questions: \n\nHow can Language Expectations serve as goals for content-driven language instruction?\n\n\nHow do Language Functions and Features show ways language works in service of content learning?\n\n\nHow can educators integrate Language Expectations within content learning?\n\n\nHow can the integration of content and language invite collaboration between educators as they collectively share responsibility for teaching multilingual learners?\n\nTarget Audience: K-12 Administrators\, Teacher Leaders\, and Teachers.
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/language-expectations-making-language-visible-in-academic-content-standards-3
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Shadia Salem,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231129T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231129T110000
DTSTAMP:20260405T134300
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SUMMARY:Targeting Language Support for Higher Proficiency Levels (3\, 4\, 5)
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Wednesday\, November 29\, 2023\nPresenter: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503058\n\n\n\n\n\nTargeting Language Support for Higher Proficiency Levels (3\, 4\, 5) \nDuring this event\, all grade level EL/Bilingual/Dual Language educators will: \n\nExamine the unique linguistic needs of students of higher language proficiency levels\nExplore ways to enrich language opportunities across grade levels and content areas \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/targeting-language-support-for-higher-proficiency-levels-3-4-5
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231129T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T134300
CREATED:20230809T154625Z
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SUMMARY:Connecting Languages during Math Instruction
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Wednesday\, November 29\, 2023\nPresenter: Rachell Plote\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503095\n\n\n\n\n\nConnecting Languages during Math Instruction \n\nThis webinar will dig into the importance of helping bilingual learners make cross-linguistic connections to further their metalinguistic development\nWhether you instruct math in English or Spanish\, we will explore ideas for making language connections while also teaching content knowledge\nTogether we will focus on ways that educators can integrate opportunities for language development across English and Spanish during mathematics instruction\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-5 Bilingual/ Dual Language Teachers
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/connecting-languages-during-math-instruction
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Rachell Plote,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T134300
CREATED:20230915T195248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230917T182820Z
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SUMMARY:Teaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Writing: El Dictado/Dictation
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Thursday\, November 30\, 2023\nPresenter: Vanessa Figueroa\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 245503123\n\n\n\n\n\n Teaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Writing: El Dictado/Dictation  \n\nTeachers will examine TheDictado/Dictation writing method in Spanish-English in grades K-5 dual language classroom settings. Teachers will receive suggestions for implementing TheDictado across grades and analyze student work samples to identify students’ developmental linguistic needs. Teachers  will view a model as presented in Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared by Escamilla et. all. and Teaching for Biliteracy: Strengthening Bridges between Languages by Beeman & Urow. This workshop content will be beneficial for Dual Language Teachers\, ESL/Bilingual Teachers\, or General Education Teachers who would like to learn more about how to support their bilingual and/or dual language learners.  \n  \nAudience: Teachers K-5 (Spanish-English)
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/el-dictado-dictation-2
LOCATION:Illinois Resource Center\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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