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SUMMARY:Teaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Reading: Shared Reading & Collaborative Reading
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Thursday\, April 3\, 2025\nPresenter: Vanessa Figueroa\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 255503116\n\n\n\n\n\nTeaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Reading: Shared Reading & Collaborative Reading \n\nThe goals of this session are to orient to the recommendations for implementing shared reading in a dual language classroom setting: during  Spanish literacy and literacy based English Language Development.  Teachers will have an opportunity to deepen their understanding of comprehension strategies and literacy skills within the content of the whole-group instruction. We will review comprehension strategies and prompts for language support. Escamilla et al (2014) Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared will be among the primary tools leveraged in this series as well other research-based resources. \n  \nAudience: Teachers K-5 (Spanish-English)
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/teaching-approaches-to-develop-biliterate-reading-shared-reading-collaborative-reading-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Key Language Uses: A Functional Approach to Language Development
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, April 5\, 2025\nPresenter: Shadia Salem\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 255503078\n\n\n\n\nKey Language Uses: A Functional Approach to Language Development\n\n\nDesigned 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. \nEssential Questions: \n\nHow do Key Language Uses foster a functional approach to language development?\n\n\nWhy should educators frame English Language Development Standards around Key Language Uses? \n\n\nIn what ways can the Four Key Language Uses represent prominent language uses across the disciplines?\n\n\nHow can educators integrate Key Language Uses within content learning?\n\n\n  \nTarget Audience: K-12 Administrators\, Teacher Leaders\, and Teachers.
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/key-language-uses-a-functional-approach-to-language-development-6
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Shadia Salem,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250407T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250407T170000
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SUMMARY:A Picture is Worth 1000 Words: Creating and Finding Visuals to Support Multilingual Learners
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Monday\, April 7\, 2025\nPresenter: Maggie Essig\nECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour\n\nEvent ID: 255503042\n\n\n\n\nA Picture is Worth 1000 Words: Creating and Finding Visuals to Support Multilingual Learners \n\nVisuals are a key linguistic support for multilingual learners\, but educators don’t have unlimited time to search the internet for the perfect visual! \nExplore where and how educators can create or find quality visuals to use in a range of contexts and content areas. \nLeave with a list of tools\, all free to educators\, that you can use or share tomorrow.\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: Educators of Multilingual Learners
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/a-picture-is-worth-1000-words-creating-and-finding-visuals-to-support-multilingual-learners-3
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Maggie Essig,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250414T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250414T170000
DTSTAMP:20260412T111258
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SUMMARY:ML Teacher Toolbox: Using Mentor Sentences
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Monday\, April 14\, 2025\nPresenter: Michele Yanong\nECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour\n\nEvent ID: 255503108\n\n\n\n\n\nML Teacher Toolbox: Using Mentor Sentences \nIgnite powerful writing\, one sentence at a time! This session provides practical\, ready-to-use strategies for using mentor sentences to accelerate language acquisition\, develop essential writing skills\, and amplify diverse voices. Learn how to select impactful mentor texts and sentences.  Leave ready to guide MLs through effective analysis and application activities that support all language development levels. Grab freebies and printable to try right away! \nAudience: All Educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/ml-teacher-toolbox-using-mentor-sentences
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Michele Yanong,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250415T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250415T180000
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SUMMARY:Supporting Long-Term English Learners in the Classroom
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Tuesday\, April 15\, 2025\nPresenter: Maggie Essig\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 255503128\n\n\n\n\nSupporting Long-Term English Learners in the Classroom\n\n\nUnderstand the linguistic\, academic\, and social-emotional needs of long-term English learners in our classrooms\nLearn methods for supporting and engaging long-term English learners\nWalk away with strategies you can immediately use\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: 6-12 Educators of Long-Term English Learners
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/supporting-long-term-english-learners-in-the-classroom-6
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Maggie Essig,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Teaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Writing: El Dictado/Dictation
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Thursday\, April 17\, 2024\nPresenter: Vanessa Figueroa\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 255503117\n\n\n\n\nTeaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Writing: El Dictado/Dictation\n\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/teaching-approaches-to-develop-biliterate-writing-el-dictado-dictation-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250422T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250422T180000
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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Dual Language Bilingual Education
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Tuesday\, April 22\, 2025\nPresenter: Rachell Plote\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 255503122\n\n\n\n\nAn Introduction to Dual Language Bilingual Education \n\nDive into the essential components of implementing a Dual Language program. \nExamine various program models\, research\, and content and language allocation plans\nExplore mindset shifts needed to fully embrace a program that supports bilingual development\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: Educators and Administrators New to Dual Language Bilingual Education
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/an-introduction-to-dual-language-bilingual-education
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Rachell Plote,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250424T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250424T143000
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SUMMARY:Standards in Action: Unpacking Language Demands and Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Thursday\, April 24\, 2025\nPresenter: Michele M. Yanong \nECPD Credit Hours: 4.5 hours\n\nEvent ID: 255503112\n\n\nLocation: The Center: IRC\n                    2626 S. Clearbrook Dr.\n                    Arlington Heights\, IL 60005\n\n\nStandards in Action: Unpacking Language Demands and Opportunities \nEnsuring equitable access to rigorous content for all learners requires a deep understanding of language demands. In this workshop\, participants will:  \n\nExplore the WIDA Guiding Principles and Standards\nLearn the difference between language functions\, forms\, and features\nIdentify the WIDA Key Uses of Language present in a specific unit or lesson that you teach. (suggested focus on writing instruction)\nWith a content and language target in mind\, think about reasonable expectations for students at a variety of language development levels\nConsider scaffolds or supports for receptive and productive language\n\nHeavy lifting\, yes… but the day will be filled with lively activities\, color\, collaboration\, games\, and music!  The structure of the day will provide additional ideas to take back to your classroom.  \nAudience: All Educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/standards-in-action-unpacking-language-demands-and-opportunities
LOCATION:Illinois Resource Center\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Michele Yanong
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250425T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250425T120000
DTSTAMP:20260412T111258
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SUMMARY:Translanguaging en acción: Bilingualism in las matemáticas
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Friday\, April 25\, 2025\nPresenter: Rachell Plote \nECPD Credit Hours: 2.5 hours\n\nEvent ID: 255503062\n\n\nLocation: The Center: IRC\n                    2626 S. Clearbrook Dr.\n                    Arlington Heights\, IL 60005\n\n\nTranslanguaging en acción: Bilingualism in las matemáticas \n\n In this session we will  \n\n\nExamine how translanguaging spaces might look within math instruction\n\n\nConsider going beyond cognates as a way to bring English and Spanish together\n\n\nExplore ideas such as using word problems and journaling as a means to support students’ bilingualism and development of mathematical concepts\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 Educators of Bilingual Learners
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/translanguaging-en-accion-bilingualism-in-las-matematicas
LOCATION:Illinois Resource Center\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Rachell Plote
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250425T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250425T153000
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SUMMARY:Flujo and Flow: Writing the Translanguaging Corriente
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Friday\, April 25\, 2025\nPresenter: Olivia Mulcahy \nECPD Credit Hours: 2.5 hours\n\nEvent ID: 255503124\n\n\nLocation: The Center: IRC\n                    2626 S. Clearbrook Dr.\n                    Arlington Heights\, IL 60005\n\n\nFlujo and Flow: Writing the Translanguaging Corriente \n“We use the metaphor of the translanguaging corriente to refer to the current or flow of students’ dynamic bilingualism that runs through our classrooms and schools. Bilingual students make use of the translanguaging corriente\, either overtly or covertly\, to learn content and language in school and to make sense of their complex worlds and identities.”  \nWith this metaphor from Ibarra-Johnson\, Garcia\, Seltzer (The Translanguaging Classroom\, 2017) in mind\, we will focus in on how it applies to writing and: \n\nEngage in writing\, discussion\, and storytelling activities across and beyond named languages that you can bring to your own classroom\nExamine a variety of translanguaging books and writings and consider how they can serve as mentor texts for bilingual student writers\nConsider how to listen to and leverage the translanguaging corriente in your classroom to boost students’ joy and skill in writing across content areas\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/flujo-and-flow-writing-the-translanguaging-corriente-2
LOCATION:Illinois Resource Center\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Olivia Mulcahy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250426T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250426T110000
DTSTAMP:20260412T111258
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SUMMARY:Language Expectations: Making Language Visible in Academic Content Standards
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, April 26\, 2025\nPresenter: Shadia Salem\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 255503079\n\n\n\n\nLanguage Expectations: Making Language Visible in Academic Content Standards\n\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-6
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Shadia Salem,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250427T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250427T170000
DTSTAMP:20260412T111258
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SUMMARY:Free Write: Conversations\, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Sunday\, April 27\, 2025\nPresenter: Olivia Mulcahy\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 255503043\n\n\n\n\nFree Write: Conversations\, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice \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?  \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-20
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Olivia Mulcahy,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250428T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250428T170000
DTSTAMP:20260412T111258
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SUMMARY: ML Teacher Toolbox: Language Feedback Techniques
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Monday\, April 28\, 2025\nPresenter: Michele Yanong\nECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour\n\nEvent ID: 255503109\n\n\n\n\n\n ML Teacher Toolbox: Language Feedback Techniques \nReady to add a few more techniques to your repertoire?   Examine concrete strategies for providing effective language feedback in any subject area to refine student speaking and writing. From recasting and eliciting to peer feedback and self-correction\, you’ll learn how to: \n\nProvide feedback that focuses on meaning and communication.\nAddress errors constructively and sensitively.\nFoster a growth mindset and support fluid use of languages\nImplement feedback strategies across various learning activities.\n\nWalk away with a toolkit of ready-to-use forms\, templates\, and printables to enhance your teaching and empower emergent bilinguals. \n\nAudience: All Educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/ml-teacher-toolbox-language-feedback-techniques
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Michele Yanong,Webinar
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