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Register Now Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2026 Presenter: Carly Spina ECPD Credit Hours: 5 Event ID: 275503083 Location: The Center: IRC 2626 S. Clearbrook Dr. Arlington Heights, IL 60005 Boosting Students at Levels 3 and 4 During this event, educators will: Explore the importance of targeting the expressive languaging domains (speaking, writing, representing) during content instruction Explore the use of student-facing rubrics and reflection tools for the expressive languaging domains Unpack the academic language demand of higher proficiency levels in [...]
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Register Now Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2026 Presenters: Carly Spina, Adelicia Brienzo ECPD Credit Hours: 1.5 hours Event ID: 275503049 Becoming Multilingual Champions: PTA Edition (AM session) During this event, school staff and parent-teacher association members will: Discuss strengths and share individual district/association successes Identify barriers toward engagement faced by multilingual families and staff Explore strategies and resources for building inclusive and responsive PTAs Target Audience: Parent and Faculty Association (PFA) members, Parent and Teacher Association (PTA) members
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Register Now Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2026 Presenters: Carly Spina, Adelicia Brienzo ECPD Credit Hours: 1.5 hours Event ID: 275503050 Becoming Multilingual Champions: PTA Edition (PM session) During this event, school staff and parent-teacher association members will: Discuss strengths and share individual district/association successes Identify barriers toward engagement faced by multilingual families and staff Explore strategies and resources for building inclusive and responsive PTAs Target Audience: Parent and Faculty Association (PFA) members, Parent and Teacher Association (PTA) members
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Register Now Date: Thursday, November 5, 2026 Presenter: Rachell Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 275503076 Leveraging Language in Math: Scaffolds, Visuals, and Translanguaging During this webinar we will… Engineer Word Problems for Accessibility: Learn how to rewrite, chunk, and modify dense math text to reduce linguistic barriers while keeping mathematical rigor high. Anchor Concepts with Targeted Visuals: Discover how to directly pair images, diagrams, and visual representations with key vocabulary and problem contexts to build deep conceptual understanding. Capitalize on Multilingual Assets: Apply strategic translanguaging practices that integrate students’ home languages as powerful tools for mathematical reasoning [...]
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Register Now Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2026 Presenter: Adelicia Brienzo ECPD Credit Hours: 1.5 hours Event ID: 275503068 Bilingual Parent Advisory Committees: Community of Practice Bilingual Parent Advisory Committees: Community of Practice is an ongoing professional learning series designed to support district leaders, family/community liaisons and Bilingual Parent Advisory Committee (BPAC) leaders in building, strengthening and sustaining impactful BPACs. Participants will explore key topics including ISBE compliance requirements, family and community engagement strategies, recruitment and retention of BPAC members, and effective collaboration between BPAC members and school teams. The series will provide opportunities to share promising practices, problem-solve common challenges, [...]
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Register Now Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2026 Presenter: Carly Spina ECPD Credit Hours: 5 Event ID: 275503084 Location: The Center: IRC 2626 S. Clearbrook Dr. Arlington Heights, IL 60005 Boosting Students at Levels 3 and 4 During this event, educators will: Explore the importance of targeting the expressive languaging domains (speaking, writing, representing) during content instruction Explore the use of student-facing rubrics and reflection tools for the expressive languaging domains Unpack the academic language demand of higher proficiency levels in [...]
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Register Now Date: Thursday, November 12, 2026 Presenter: Peter Tierney-Fife and Vanessa Figueroa ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 275503034 Strategies for Making Math More Accessible for Multilingual Learners Session III (part 3 of 3) This 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 [...] |
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Register Now Date: Monday, November 16, 2026 Presenter: Michele M. Yanong ECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour Event ID: 275503089 ML Teacher Toolbox: Board and Card Games to Level Up Learning Remember the thrill of flipping tiles in Guess Who?, the suspense of Taboo, or strategizing over a deck of cards with friends? In this interactive one-hour toolbox session, we’ll tap into that timeless excitement and transform beloved tabletop games into high-impact linguistic engines. By lowering the affective filter and replacing performance anxiety with purposeful play, board and card games create a joyful, low-stress space for multilingual learners to take verbal [...]
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Register Now Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2026 Presenter: Rachell Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 275503077 Putting the Illinois SLA Standards into Action: Lesson Planning for TBE Programs How do we utilize the Illinois Spanish Language Arts standards in daily classroom instruction? This follow-up session provides TBE educators with concrete strategies to plan, align, and implement standards-based Spanish language arts instruction.In this session, we will: Address how to align the SLA standards to traditional TBE program models. Apply SLA standards and essential understandings to weekly and daily lesson planning. Leverage vertical articulation insights to differentiate instruction for diverse [...]
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Register Now Date: Sunday, November 22, 2026 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 275503017 Free Write: Conversations, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice Free Write is a creative space for educators to connect, generate ideas, and share inspiration through writing. 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: Explore themes relevant to our lives and work as educators through a community writing process [...]
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Register Now Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2026 Presenter: Rachell Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 275503078 The Bilingual Writer’s Toolkit: Syllables, Genre Verbs, and Sentence Mechanics Why do early bilingual writers stall at the word level? Often, it’s not because they lack phonetic knowledge, but because they lack the specific "verb engines" required for different types of writing. This workshop provides K-2 educators with a hands-on roadmap to engineer strong independent sentences in Spanish. Together, we will look at: Phonetic Foundations: Moving beyond basic syllables into complex structures and multi-syllabic endurance. The Genre Shift: Mapping out how verb [...]
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