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SUMMARY: Free Write: Conversations\, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Sunday\, December 14\, 2025\nPresenter: Olivia Mulcahy\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 265503058\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-25
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CATEGORIES:Olivia Mulcahy,Webinar
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SUMMARY:ML Teacher Toolbox: One-Pagers
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Monday\, December 15\, 2025\nPresenter: Michele M. Yanong\nECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour\n\nEvent ID: 265503019\n\n\n\n\nML Teacher Toolbox: One-Pagers \nUnlock deep conceptual understandings with One-Pagers! Learn how strategic sketching allows your multilingual learners (and everyone else) to move past writing limitations and demonstrate mastery visually across any subject. \nParticipants will walk away with: \n\nA practical framework for structuring effective one-pager assignments\, including design elements\, suggestions for text chunking\, simple rubrics\, and access to free\, downloadable templates for students that are scared of a blank page!\nTechniques for teaching Sketch-to-Stretch thinking\, guiding MLs to use symbols\, color\, and visual organization to show connections and analyses that move beyond literal text recall.\nActionable strategies for leveraging completed one-pagers—through gallery walks or low-stakes presentations—to create speaking opportunities and build language skills using student-created content.\n\nAudience: All Educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/ml-teacher-toolbox-one-pagers
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Michele Yanong,Webinar
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SUMMARY:EL PtP 101
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Wednesday\, December 17\, 2025\nPresenters: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 1.5 hour\n\nEvent ID: 265503096\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-2
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,Webinar
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