Academic Classroom Environment, Wit & Wisdom, (6th-8th Grade) (face-to-face)

A student’s physical surroundings have a profound influence on their behavior and learning. This session will focus on how we can transform the classroom into an academic learning environment that can improve instruction and learning. Presenters will share ideas for word walls, module specific anchor charts, timelines, and how to build respect and rapport with our students.

Cultivating a Comfortable Environment for Diverse Learners - Diversity Inside-out (face-to-face)

Students need a respectful environment to function to their full potential. This session provides

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy strategies to cultivate the environment diverse students need. Participants will visualize that in order to cultivate such environments, it needs to start from within. Then, as a ripple effect, it carries onto our content teaching pedagogy, school culture, family and community engagement, and ultimately our students, engaging them globally as open-minded individuals.

Ellevation Strategies Overview (virtual)

Join us to learn how Ellevation Strategies can help your emergent bilingual students reach their highest aspirations! Our training will provide you with an overview of Strategies and give you a preview of our professional learning modules that your district will be launching in the fall.

Making Words Meaningful: Internalizing Academic Vocabulary Using ELL Strategies (face-to-face)

We have all heard of using word walls, personal dictionaries, and vocabulary graphic organizers in our classrooms, but how can we ensure tools like these are being used effectively in the English classroom? This session will use the English I ODELL curriculum to demonstrate teaching strategies that can be used to enhance students comprehension of complex texts.

Move Our EBs, Please: Aligning READING instructional practices and TELPAS Item Types (face-to-face)

The robust curriculum for the "Move Our EBs, Please: Aligning READING instructional practices and TELPAS Item Types" session includes strategies that are designed with all content areas in mind to assist with the improving of EBs proficiency levels on the reading domain of the TELPAS. The strategies were created for ESL teachers, coaches, specialists, coordinators, directors, and administrators to aid in the preparation for TELPAS.

Promoting Strategic Interaction among Emergent Bilinguals in Secondary Math Classrooms (face-to-face)

This training is for secondary math teachers (who teach Algebra 1, Algebra 2 or Geometry) of emergent bilinguals (EBs). Participants will learn a variety of strategies and activities that promote interaction among EBs. Maximizing interaction in the classroom is an important factor in the development of students’ oral skills.

Simple and Effective Strategies that Work in ALL Classrooms! (face-to-face)

Will this strategy work for the students in my class? Planning can be stressful! Join us as we share simple and effective strategies that work for ALL students! Participants will see the strategies implemented with students during the year, as well as experience the strategies as participants. The strategies highlighted in this session will promote student interaction and cement student knowledge. The strategies we will be highlighting for all classrooms are: Hanging Hashtags, Talking Chips, Vocabulary Dominos and MORE!

Strategies to Promote Academic Content and English Language Development for EBs in Any Secondary Classroom (virtual)

Participants will learn about strategies appropriate to teaching content and supporting English language development to Emergent Bilinguals (EBs) in secondary classrooms. The following strategies will be described in this workshop: (a) personalizing sentence frames based on EBs’ English language proficiency, (b) intensional visuals, and (c) enlarging/adapting complex English text.

Strategies to Promote Academic Content and English Language Development for EBs in Any Secondary Classroom (virtual)

Participants will learn about strategies appropriate to teaching content and supporting English language development to Emergent Bilinguals (EBs) in secondary classrooms. The following strategies will be described in this workshop: (a) personalizing sentence frames based on EBs’ English language proficiency, (b) intensional visuals, and (c) enlarging/adapting complex English text.

Supporting Newcomers in the Secondary Classroom (face-to-face)

Newcomer students in secondary school are held to high educational standards while at the same time facing arduous mental health-related trauma associated with life in their home countries, the journey to the United States and or systemic barriers while settling in U.S. schools. This presentation will begin with trauma-informed education which describes the many reasons many Newcomer students migrate to the United States. This presentation aims to strengthen spaces of inclusion for Newcomer’s students in high school by highlighting their social and academic abilities, skills and life-aspirations. Dr. Zelaya will provide culturally responsive strategies to strengthen relationships between content area educators and Newcomer students. The overall purpose is to amplify the voices of Newcomer and Emergent Bilingual students with the intent of increasing their access to life-changing choices and opportunities.

What? Why? How? Effective Questioning in the Secondary Math Classroom (face-to-face)

According to research, 80% of the time in a regular classroom is spent on questioning. But what is the purpose of the questions? As teachers select or create questions to guide, support, and drive discourse in the mathematics classroom, reflecting on the type of questions we ask should be part of the process. Participants will learn about two types of questions that either move the mathematical thinking forward or require students to exhibit their knowledge. Participants will select questions from Carnegie Learning lessons that address these two question types and learn how to prepare to respond to students’ thinking.

Content-Based Language Instruction (virtual)

Join in this interactive discussion of the key components of the Content-Based Language Instruction (CBLI) Framework in development by TEA. Provide your input and make connections to practical implementation methods that employ a comprehensive approach to ensuring our emergent bilingual students succeed in all of our bilingual and ESL programs.

Diving into Wit & Wisdom, Module 0 (6th-8th Grade) (face-to-face)

In this session, the presenters will guide teachers through different Wit and Wisdom Instructional Routines and best practices that can be used with lessons from Module 0. We will focus on strategies that can support our EL students as they navigate through key lessons in the module and how those strategies can assist students in later modules.

Effective Practices to Meet our ELLs' Needs (face-to-face)

We need intentional and practical practices to create a safe environment for our students, particularly for MLs - An environment for students to learn, improve relationships, and an environment that promotes academic achievement. During this session, you’ll receive key & effective SEL practices to meet the needs of every learner.

Ellevation Strategies Overview (virtual)

Join us to learn how Ellevation Strategies can help your emergent bilingual students reach their highest aspirations! Our training will provide you with an overview of Strategies and give you a preview of our professional learning modules that your district will be launching in the fall.

Engaging Students Using Nearpod (virtual)

Looking for ways to engage your students? Want to know how to interject various learning styles into each lesson? Do you want your students to take ownership of their learning? This session will delve into strategies and routines to create a positive learning environment to captivate your students.

Grade Level vs. Adapted Texts: What’s the difference, and how can they be used in the English classroom? (face-to-face)

Can adapted texts call for critical thinking? This session will use texts from the English I ODELL curriculum to demonstrate how grade level texts can be adapted to meet students' accommodations without compromising the content and complexity of the text.

Journaling to the MAX (face-to-face)

Are you tired of the same old interactive journals? In this session, we will give you strategies to update that old interactive journal to meet the needs of your emergent bilingual students, show you how to transform that interactive journal into a digital on-the-go journal, and help you get your own digital journal started before the start of the new school year.

Literacy Instruction for Dually-Identified Students: Instruction and Strategies to Improve

Literacy Outcomes for ALL Students (virtual)

Emergent bilingual students and students with disabilities often need specialized instruction and scaffolds to build grade-level literacy skills. This is particularly true of dually-identified students who face compounding language and literacy challenges. In this session, Drs. Santi and Carlson review evidence-based literacy practices to improve outcomes for emergent bilingual students, students with disabilities, and dually-identified students. Although these students demonstrate distinct learning challenges, data-driven, systematic instruction can serve as a mechanism to improve access for all learners.

Move Our EBs, Please: Aligning READING instructional practices and TELPAS Item Types (face-to-face)

The robust curriculum for the "Move Our EBs, Please: Aligning READING instructional practices and TELPAS Item Types" session includes strategies that are designed with all content areas in mind to assist with the improving of EBs proficiency levels on the reading domain of the TELPAS. The strategies were created for ESL teachers, coaches, specialists, coordinators, directors, and administrators to aid in the preparation for TELPAS.

Promoting Strategic Interaction among Emergent Bilinguals in Secondary Math Classrooms (face-to-face)

This training is for secondary math teachers (who teach Algebra 1, Algebra 2 or Geometry) of emergent bilinguals (EBs). Participants will learn a variety of strategies and activities that promote interaction among EBs. Maximizing interaction in the classroom is an important factor in the development of students’ oral skills.

Strategies to Promote Academic Content and English Language Development for EBs in Any Secondary Classroom (virtual)

Participants will learn about strategies appropriate to teaching content and supporting English language development to Emergent Bilinguals (EBs) in secondary classrooms. The following strategies will be described in this workshop: (a) personalizing sentence frames based on EBs’ English language proficiency, (b) intensional visuals, and (c) enlarging/adapting complex English text.

Strategies that Work in the Math Classroom! (face-to-face)

If you are not getting the “range” from your students that you expected, try changing the “domains” you are using? Change the parameters to expand student talk and interaction in the Math classroom. Participants will see the strategies implemented with Aldine students during the year and will also experience the strategies as participants. The strategies we will be highlighting for the math classroom are: QSSSA, Carousels, Talking Chips, and Whiteboards (digital and non-digital) in the classroom.

Supporting Newcomers in the Secondary Classroom (face-to-face)

Newcomer students in secondary school are held to high educational standards while at the same time facing arduous mental health-related trauma associated with life in their home countries, the journey to the United States and or systemic barriers while settling in U.S. schools. This presentation will begin with trauma-informed education which describes the many reasons many Newcomer students migrate to the United States. This presentation aims to strengthen spaces of inclusion for Newcomer’s students in high school by highlighting their social and academic abilities, skills and life-aspirations. Dr. Zelaya will provide culturally responsive strategies to strengthen relationships between content area educators and Newcomer students. The overall purpose is to amplify the voices of Newcomer and Emergent Bilingual students with the intent of increasing their access to life-changing choices and opportunities.

Academic Vocabulary, Wit & Wisdom (6th-8th Grade) (face-to-face)

The audience for this session is 6th-8th grade Wit and Wisdom teachers.

When English learners struggle with reading comprehension, it can often be attributed to their difficulty with understanding the vocabulary. Students with smaller vocabularies are at a greater disadvantage in learning, and this lack of knowledge too often is the main barrier to their comprehension of on-level texts and/or textbooks. In this session, presenters will share ideas for interactive Word Walls, digital vocabulary notebooks, and the importance of tiering vocabulary words.

Anchor Charts for All!: How to use Anchor Charts to Deepen Students’ Critical Thinking (face-to-face)

This session will use examples from the English I ODELL curriculum to demonstrate various ways anchor charts can be used in the classroom to enhance students’ understanding of academic content and create autonomous learners.

Building Academic Vocabulary Through Structured Conversations:Challenging EBs in Secondary Classrooms to Engage in Meaningful Interactions (virtual)

Participants will learn about effective ways to plan and implement structured conversations among EBs in secondary classrooms. Inside/Outside Circles and QSSSA are two of the strategies included in this workshop.

Content-Based Language Instruction (virtual)

Join in this interactive discussion of the key components of the Content-Based Language Instruction (CBLI) Framework in development by TEA. Provide your input and make connections to practical implementation methods that employ a comprehensive approach to ensuring our emergent bilingual students succeed in all of our bilingual and ESL programs.

Decide and Defend: Structured Conversations in the Secondary Math Classroom (face-to-face)

How do we support students to engage in student discourse? Through structured conversations! Participants will engage in and learn how to use the Decide and Defend structured conversation protocol. Then, they will select from the Carnegie Learning lessons a specific opportunity to rehearse the protocol for use within their own classroom.

Ellevation Strategies Overview (virtual)

Join us to learn how Ellevation Strategies can help your emergent bilingual students reach their highest aspirations! Our training will provide you with an overview of Strategies and give you a preview of our professional learning modules that your district will be launching in the fall.

Engaging Students Using Nearpod (face-to-face)

Looking for ways to engage your students? Want to know how to interject various learning styles into each lesson? Do you want your students to take ownership of their learning? This session will delve into strategies and routines to create a positive learning environment to captivate your students.

English Vocabulary Instruction for Emergent Bilinguals in Secondary Math Classrooms (face-to-face)

This training is for secondary math teachers (who teach Algebra 1, Algebra 2 or Geometry) of emergent bilinguals (EBs). Participants will recognize and analyze categories of academic vocabulary found in mathematics texts and word problems and learn research-based strategies to develop such vocabulary. Some of the topics included in this training are: (a) identifying academic vocabulary; (b) difficulty of academic vocabulary in mathematics; (c) receptive and productive knowledge; and (d) inflection, lemma, derivative, and semantic word families.

Move Our EBs, Please: Aligning READING instructional practices and TELPAS Item Types (face-to-face)

The robust curriculum for the "Move Our EBs, Please: Aligning READING instructional practices and TELPAS Item Types" session includes strategies that are designed with all content areas in mind to assist with the improving of EBs proficiency levels on the reading domain of the TELPAS. The strategies were created for ESL teachers, coaches, specialists, coordinators, directors, and administrators to aid in the preparation for TELPAS.

PBL: Easy as Pie (face-to-face)

Project based learning does not have to be overly complicated and time consuming. In this session, we will explore the benefits of project based learning in the ESL science classroom and how we can make project based learning engaging and easy for everyone. During this session, we will also learn how to make project based learning work for your and your specific population of students.

Reading in Social Studies Classes: Building Word and World Knowledge to Improve Reading among Emergent Bilinguals and Their Peers (virtual)

Many students, including emergent bilingual students, have difficulty meeting grade level

expectations in reading and content-area classes. Dr. Capin will describe evidence-based literacy

practices that can be integrated during social studies instruction to improve reading comprehension and social studies learning. These practices benefit all middle school students, but are particularly critical for emergent bilingual students.

Simple and Effective Strategies that Work in ALL Classrooms! (face-to-face)

Will this strategy work for the students in my class? Planning can be stressful! Join us as we share simple and effective strategies that work for ALL students! Participants will see the strategies implemented with students during the year, as well as experience the strategies as participants. The strategies highlighted in this session will promote student interaction and cement student knowledge. The strategies we will be highlighting for all classrooms are: Hanging Hashtags, Talking Chips, Vocabulary Dominos and MORE!

Supporting Newcomers in the Secondary Classroom (face-to-face)

Newcomer students in secondary school are held to high educational standards while at the same time facing arduous mental health-related trauma associated with life in their home countries, the journey to the United States and or systemic barriers while settling in U.S. schools. This presentation will begin with trauma-informed education which describes the many reasons many Newcomer students migrate to the United States. This presentation aims to strengthen spaces of inclusion for Newcomer’s students in high school by highlighting their social and academic abilities, skills and life-aspirations. Dr. Zelaya will provide culturally responsive strategies to strengthen relationships between content area educators and Newcomer students. The overall purpose is to amplify the voices of Newcomer and Emergent Bilingual students with the intent of increasing their access to life-changing choices and opportunities.

Academic Vocabulary, Wit & Wisdom (6th-8th Grade) (face-to-face)

The audience for this session is 6th-8th grade Wit and Wisdom teachers.

When English learners struggle with reading comprehension, it can often be attributed to their difficulty with understanding the vocabulary. Students with smaller vocabularies are at a greater disadvantage in learning, and this lack of knowledge too often is the main barrier to their comprehension of on-level texts and/or textbooks. In this session, presenters will share ideas for interactive Word Walls, digital vocabulary notebooks, and the importance of tiering vocabulary words.

Building Academic Vocabulary Through Structured Conversations:Challenging EBs in Secondary Classrooms to Engage in Meaningful Interactions (virtual)

Participants will learn about effective ways to plan and implement structured conversations among EBs in secondary classrooms. Inside/Outside Circles and QSSSA are two of the strategies included in this workshop.

Content-Based Language Instruction (virtual)

Join in this interactive discussion of the key components of the Content-Based Language Instruction (CBLI) Framework in development by TEA. Provide your input and make connections to practical implementation methods that employ a comprehensive approach to ensuring our emergent bilingual students succeed in all of our bilingual and ESL programs.

Differentiation Made Easy (face-to-face)

What does differentiation look like in your classroom? In this session, we will explore differentiation in the ESL science classroom, what we think it looks like as educators, what it actually looks like to students, and give you some easy methods to use in order to effectively include differentiation into your everyday classroom routine while meeting the needs of your Emergent Bilingual students.

Ellevation Strategies Overview (virtual)

Join us to learn how Ellevation Strategies can help your emergent bilingual students reach their highest aspirations! Our training will provide you with an overview of Strategies and give you a preview of our professional learning modules that your district will be launching in the fall.

English Vocabulary Instruction for Emergent Bilinguals in Secondary Math Classrooms (face-to-face)

This training is for secondary math teachers (who teach Algebra 1, Algebra 2 or Geometry) of emergent bilinguals (EBs). Participants will recognize and analyze categories of academic vocabulary found in mathematics texts and word problems and learn research-based strategies to develop such vocabulary. Some of the topics included in this training are: (a) identifying academic vocabulary; (b) difficulty of academic vocabulary in mathematics; (c) receptive and productive knowledge; and (d) inflection, lemma, derivative, and semantic word families.

Move Our EBs, Please: Aligning READING instructional practices and TELPAS Item Types (face-to-face)

The robust curriculum for the "Move Our EBs, Please: Aligning READING instructional practices and TELPAS Item Types" session includes strategies that are designed with all content areas in mind to assist with the improving of EBs proficiency levels on the reading domain of the TELPAS. The strategies were created for ESL teachers, coaches, specialists, coordinators, directors, and administrators to aid in the preparation for TELPAS.

Strategies that Work in the Math Classroom! (face-to-face)

If you are not getting the “range” from your students that you expected, try changing the “domains” you are using? Change the parameters to expand student talk and interaction in the Math classroom. Participants will see the strategies implemented with Aldine students during the year and will also experience the strategies as participants. The strategies we will be highlighting for the math classroom are: QSSSA, Carousels, Talking Chips, and Whiteboards (digital and non-digital) in the classroom.

Supporting Newcomers in the Secondary Classroom (face-to-face)

Newcomer students in secondary school are held to high educational standards while at the same time facing arduous mental health-related trauma associated with life in their home countries, the journey to the United States and or systemic barriers while settling in U.S. schools. This presentation will begin with trauma-informed education which describes the many reasons many Newcomer students migrate to the United States. This presentation aims to strengthen spaces of inclusion for Newcomer’s students in high school by highlighting their social and academic abilities, skills and life-aspirations. Dr. Zelaya will provide culturally responsive strategies to strengthen relationships between content area educators and Newcomer students. The overall purpose is to amplify the voices of Newcomer and Emergent Bilingual students with the intent of increasing their access to life-changing choices and opportunities.