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SUMMARY: Free Write: Conversations\, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Sunday\, January 11\, 2026\nPresenter: Olivia Mulcahy\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 265503059\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-26
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Olivia Mulcahy,Webinar
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SUMMARY:ML Teacher Toolbox: LEA (Language Experience Approach)
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Monday\, January 12\, 2026\nPresenter: Michele M. Yanong\nECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour\n\nEvent ID: 265503022\n\n\n\n\nML Teacher Toolbox: LEA (Language Experience Approach) \nBridge the gap between your students’ spoken language and academic literacy with the powerful Language Experience Approach (LEA). Learn how co-constructing text based on shared experiences provides the essential context and understanding needed for Multilingual Learners (MLs) to confidently transition into reading and writing. \nIn this webinar\, you will walk away with: \n\nDirections for facilitating a shared experience and transcribing student narratives into a relevant\, co-constructed text that instantly becomes their foundational reading material.\nPractical techniques for leveraging the built-in context and familiarity of the text to explicitly teach discreet phonics\, grammar\, vocabulary\, and other language skills.\nExtension strategies for utilizing the co-constructed text as a dynamic tool for editing practice\, contrastive analysis between languages\, and focused fluency work\, transforming student voice into literacy mastery.\n\nAudience: All Educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/ml-teacher-toolbox-lea-language-experience-approach
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Michele Yanong,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260117T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260117T110000
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SUMMARY:Instructional Core Strategies for Multilingual Teachers
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, January 17\, 2026\nPresenter: Dana Piraino\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 265503050\n\n\n\n\n\nInstructional Core Strategies for Multilingual Teachers \nEmpowering educators with scaffolding\, differentiation\, and background knowledge activation strategies to unlock every student’s potential. \n\nTopics covered will include:\nSecond Language Acquisition Activities\nScaffolding supports with the four domains especially writing\nBackground knowledge and agency ideas\nDifferentiation ideas\nGames-Low prep high engagement\n\nTarget Audience: K-12 Educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/translanguaging-empowering-multilingual-learners-in-k-12-classrooms-3
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Dana Piraino,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260121T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260121T150000
DTSTAMP:20260405T215349
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SUMMARY:Multilingual Learner Strategies for 6-12 Content Teachers
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Wednesday\, January 21\, 2026 (Full Day – one hour lunch on your own)\nPresenter: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 5\n\nEvent ID: 265503070\n\n\nLocation: The Center: IRC\n                    2626 S. Clearbrook Dr.\n                    Arlington Heights\, IL 60005\n\n\n\nMultilingual Learner Strategies for 6-12 Content Teachers  \nAre you a content teacher in a middle school\, junior high school\, or high school? Do you serve multilingual learners? This event is especially designed for educators who may or may not have their EL Endorsements but who are ready to provide meaningful support for multilingual students. During this event\, secondary content educators will:  \n\nLearn a brief overview of language proficiency levels\nExplore instructional strategies that can be used across content areas \nReceive a digital tool bank of resources\, tools\, & templates to take with you\n\nTarget Audience: educators serving multilingual learners
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/multilingual-learner-strategies-for-6-12-content-teachers-2
LOCATION:Illinois Resource Center\, United States
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,In-Person
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260129T150000
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SUMMARY:Multilingual Learner Strategies for 6-12 Content Teachers 
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Thursday\, January 29\, 2026 (Full Day – one hour lunch on your own)\nPresenter: Carly Spina\nECPD Credit Hours: 5\n\nEvent ID: 265503071\n\n\nLocation: The Center: IRC\n                    2626 S. Clearbrook Dr.\n                    Arlington Heights\, IL 60005\n\n\n\nMultilingual Learner Strategies for 6-12 Content Teachers  \nAre you a content teacher in a middle school\, junior high school\, or high school? Do you serve multilingual learners? This event is especially designed for educators who may or may not have their EL Endorsements but who are ready to provide meaningful support for multilingual students. During this event\, secondary content educators will:  \n\nLearn a brief overview of language proficiency levels\nExplore instructional strategies that can be used across content areas \nReceive a digital tool bank of resources\, tools\, & templates to take with you\n\nTarget Audience: educators serving multilingual learners
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/multilingual-learner-strategies-for-6-12-content-teachers
LOCATION:Illinois Resource Center\, United States
CATEGORIES:Carly Spina,In-Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260131T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260131T110000
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SUMMARY:Assessment and Data Use for the Multilingual Teacher
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n  \n\nDate: Saturday\, January 31\, 2026\nPresenter: Dana Piraino\nECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours\n\nEvent ID: 265503077\n\n\n\n\n\nAssessment and Data Use for the Multilingual Teacher\nDemystifying WIDA ACCESS & Creating Fair\, Equitable\, and Valid Assessments to Guide Instruction \n\nTopics covered will include:\n\n\nWhat is WIDA?\n\n\nWhat is ACCESS?\n\n\nCreating Fair\, Equitable\, and Valid Assessments.\n\n\nWhat makes an assessment Fair?\n\n\nWhy are assessment so difficult for Mulitilingual Learners and how to modify assessments without reducing rigor.\nHow to read Data and use it as an asset when looking at programming our most at risk students\n\nTarget Audience: K-12 Educators
URL:https://irc.thecenterweb.org/workshop/assessment-and-data-use-for-the-multilingual-teacher
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Dana Piraino,Webinar
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