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SUMMARY:ML Teacher Toolbox: "The Last Question” Protocol
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Monday\, November 3\, 2025\nPresenter: Michele M. Yanong\nECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour\n\nEvent ID: 265503013\n\n\n\n\nML Teacher Toolbox: “The Last Question” Protocol \nDiscover “The Last Question Protocol\,” a simple\, high-impact teaching strategy that encourages authentic reflection by ending lessons with a single\, open-ended prompt. Learn how this low-stakes approach dramatically reduces anxiety for all students\, especially Multilingual Learners\, while giving you critical\, actionable feedback on your instructional activities\, classroom tone\, and the experiences of the students during the learning. \nWalk away with: \n\nA guide on how to craft and implement effective open-ended “Last Questions” that encourage deep student processing across a number of key categories.\nReady-to-use techniques for incorporating sentence frames and other scaffolds to support multilingual learners\, enabling them to respond at their current language level and practice low-stakes writing and speaking.\nA huge set of printables to use right away tomorrow\, or project for oral discussions.\nMethods for quickly analyzing student responses to gain immediate\, valuable information on the pacing and perception of your lesson\, ensuring every student’s voice contributes to a stronger classroom community.  \n\nAudience: All Educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/ml-teacher-toolbox-the-last-question-protocol
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Michele Yanong,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Unlock the Potential of Wordless Books
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Wednesday\, November 5\, 2025\nPresenter: Maggie Essig\nECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour\n\nEvent ID: 265503054\n\n\n\n\n Unlock the Potential of Wordless Books \n\nExplore creative interpretive and expressive language and literacy strategies that capitalize on wordless books.\nLeave with a comprehensive list of wordless books that are ideal for Multilingual Learners. \nCreate a plan for incorporating wordless books into instruction for Multilingual Learners.\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: Educators of Multilingual Learners
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/unlock-the-potential-of-wordless-books-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Maggie Essig,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Engagement\, Energy\, & Movement for Multilingual Learners
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Monday\, November 10\, 2025 (Full Day – one hour lunch on your own)\nPresenter: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 5\n\nEvent ID: 265503029\n\n\nLocation: The Center: IRC\n                    2626 S. Clearbrook Dr.\n                    Arlington Heights\, IL 60005\n\n\n\nEngagement\, Energy\, & Movement for Multilingual Learners \nDuring this event\, educators serving multilingual learners will:  \n\nUnpack the impact of engagement for language and content learning\nExplore a variety of tools and ideas that can help to content more engaging for multilingual learners\nReceive a digital tool bank of resources to take with you\nHave time to collaboratively or independently plan and create tools\n\nTARGET AUDIENCE: educators serving multilingual learners
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/engagement-energy-movement-for-multilingual-learners
LOCATION:Illinois Resource Center\, United States
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,In-Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251110T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251110T180000
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SUMMARY:Strategies for Making Math More Accessible for Multilingual Learners Session II (part 2 of 3)
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Monday\, November 10\, 2025\nPresenter: Peter Tierney-Fife and Vanessa Figueroa\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 265503043\n\n\n\n\n\nStrategies for Making Math More Accessible for Multilingual Learners Session II (part 2 of 3) \n\n\nThis session is the second part of a three part Math series. The activities will be distinct in each session. Teachers will receive evidence-based strategies and share ideas on how to analyze language and content demands within the context of mathematics. We will  share strategies\, examine the language demands within the context of mathematical tasks and identify potential adaptations for multilingual learners across English Proficiency Levels. We will be leveraging the tools from Math for All to build a common understanding around the neurodevelopmental framework and recommendations in the Institute of Education Sciences’ Practice Guide Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School as it applies to mathematics learning and teaching. Additional supplemental resources will be leveraged such as Academic Language in Diverse Classrooms: Mathematics\, Grades K-2 and 3–5: Promoting Content and Language Learning (Gottlieb & Slavit\, 2013). 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 multilingual learners as they learn mathematics. \n\nAudience: Primary Education Teachers grades (K–8)
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/strategies-for-making-math-more-accessible-for-multilingual-learners-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Peter Tierney-Fife,Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251112T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251112T110000
DTSTAMP:20260408T073854
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SUMMARY:EL PtP 101 (AM Session)
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Wednesday\, November 12\, 2025\nPresenters: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 1.5 hour\n\nEvent ID: 265503078\n\n\n\n\n\nEL PtP 101 (AM Session) \nDuring this event\, educators serving multilingual learners will:  \n\nUnpack the purpose of ISBE’s English Learner Path to Proficiency\nExplore how to calculate the two individual target scores for students\nLearn how to use the data to track student’s language growth on ACCESS\n\n  \nTARGET AUDIENCE: educators serving multilingual learners
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/el-ptp-101-am-session
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,Webinar
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251112T143000
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SUMMARY:EL PtP 101 (PM Session)
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Wednesday\, November 12\, 2025\nPresenters: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 1.5 hour\n\nEvent ID: 265503079\n\n\n\n\n\nEL PtP 101 (PM Session) \nDuring this event\, educators serving multilingual learners will:  \n\nUnpack the purpose of ISBE’s English Learner Path to Proficiency\nExplore how to calculate the two individual target scores for students\nLearn how to use the data to track student’s language growth on ACCESS\n\n  \nTARGET AUDIENCE: educators serving multilingual learners
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/el-ptp-101-pm-session
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Joyful Learning Environments that Promote Language Development
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Thursday\, November 13\, 2025 (working lunch\, that you can leave at 1:30 p.m.)\nPresenter: Carly Spina\, Michele Yanong\, Maggie Essig\nECPD Credit Hours: 5\n\nEvent ID: 265503024\n\n\nLocation: National Louis University \n                   1000 Capitol Dr.\n                   Wheeling\, IL 60090\n\n\n\nJoyful Learning Environments that Promote Language Development \nIf you only get one release day this fall\, this one-day workshop features multiple IRC specialists TOGETHER in ONE ROOM! Michele Yanong\, Maggie Essig\, and Carly Spina look forward to facilitating this one-day workshop!  \nJoin us for a session to support educators serving multilingual learners\, where you will:  \n\nDiscover community-building experiences that promote powerful connections between students \nExplore books and resources that nurture a sense of joy and community while stretching language\nPractice joyful learning activities that build and stretch language in meaningful ways \nUnpack instructional routines that are inclusive and engaging across content areas\n\n  \nTARGET AUDIENCE: educators serving multilingual learners (K-12)
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/joyful-learning-environments-that-promote-language-development
LOCATION:National Louis University – Wheeling Campus\, 1000 Capitol Dr\, Wheeling\, IL\, 60090\, United States
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,In-Person,Maggie Essig,Michele Yanong
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SUMMARY:Strategies for Making Math More Accessible for Multilingual Learners Session III (part 3 of 3)
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Thursday\, November 20\, 2025\nPresenter: Peter Tierney-Fife and Vanessa Figueroa\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 265503044\n\n\n\n\n\nStrategies for Making Math More Accessible for Multilingual Learners Session III (part 3 of 3) \n\n\nThis session is the third part of a three part Math series. The activities will be distinct in each session. Teachers will receive evidence-based strategies and share ideas on how to analyze language and content demands within the context of mathematics. We will  share strategies\, examine the language demands within the context of mathematical tasks and identify potential adaptations for multilingual learners across English Proficiency Levels. We will be leveraging the tools from Math for All to build a common understanding around the neurodevelopmental framework and recommendations in the Institute of Education Sciences’ Practice Guide Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School as it applies to mathematics learning and teaching. Additional supplemental resources will be leveraged such as Academic Language in Diverse Classrooms: Mathematics\, Grades K-2 and 3–5: Promoting Content and Language Learning (Gottlieb & Slavit\, 2013). 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 multilingual learners as they learn mathematics. \n\nAudience: Primary Education Teachers grades (K–8)
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/strategies-for-making-math-more-accessible-for-multilingual-learners
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Peter Tierney-Fife,Vanessa Figueroa,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251123T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251123T170000
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SUMMARY: Free Write: Conversations\, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Sunday\, November 23\, 2025\nPresenter: Olivia Mulcahy\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 265503057\n\n\n\n\n\n Free Write: Conversations\, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice \nHow can the experience of writing can help you deepen your practice? Free Write is an opportunity for educators to engage in a creative space to connect\, generate ideas\, and share inspiration within a community of colleagues. 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 various writing forms and examples to prompt our own thinking/writing and imagine how they might apply in the context of our own culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms and 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-24
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Olivia Mulcahy,Webinar
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