EBs Secondary Sessions Tuesday, July 12th

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

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.

Coaching Teachers in Bilingual & Dual Language Classrooms (virtual)

Engaging dual language teachers in constructive observations and feedback is essential to teacher excellence and student achievement. This session empowers administrators, coaches, and teacher leaders with a proven framework for coaching dual-language and bilingual teachers with fair and effective feedback. Coaches and administrators gain the skills and tools needed to answer the question, “How can I consistently and accurately create a coaching cycle for dual-language and bilingual teachers, especially if the language utilized during instruction is one that I don’t speak?” Participants will receive essential tools for providing effective coaching and high-quality feedback cycles.

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.

Effective Differentiated Planning (face-to-face)

Are you trying strategies in your classroom and not seeing growth? Are you doing the same thing for every student because you are struggling to differentiate? If the answer is yes, join

us! Using Ellevation effectively can improve student productivity in your classroom. Participants will look at a sample class to identify student needs and EB levels to effectively differentiate and adapt strategies for every student’s level and instructional needs.

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

Participants will recognize and analyze categories of academic vocabulary found in science texts 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 science; (c) receptive and productive knowledge; and (d) inflection, lemma, derivative, and semantic word families.

Enhancing Learning in Math with Authentic Communication (virtual)

This presentation highlights the value and power of encouraging and helping students communicate during all learning tasks in mathematics classooms, with an emphasis on supporting their development of language, social skills, and academic agency. Participants will engage in activities and analyze videos that show examples of communication-rich tasks in math and ways to enhance all lesson activities that we use to help students build up mathematical ideas and reasoning abilities.

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.

Language Building Activities for EBs in the Social Studies Classroom (face-to-face)

This session will provide strategies for developing students' academic and related basic vocabulary in the social studies classroom.

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 (virtual)

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.

Pushing Deeper Thinking Through Pictures (virtual)

In this session Trevor Bryan, author of The Art of Comprension will share an approach that uses pictures and artworks to help students to stretch their thinking while also addressing common literacy practices such as noticing key details to support thinking, making text-to connections, finding themes, exploring symbolism and studying story structures.

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.

Building Background and Activating Prior Knowledge through Authenticity and Realia (face-to-face)

Teachers will explore various methods and strategies to build background and activate prior knowledge to prepare students for learning.

Do you struggle with helping students realize they have background knowledge? Did you know you can use realia and authenticity to help your students make connections? This presentation will focus on methods to help teachers build students' skills as we remember what it was like to be bright-eyed and bursting with curiosity in middle school. Teachers will learn how to give similar moments of excitement by using methods and strategies that link students to their learning.

Dare to Be Different: Differentiation Strategies and Supports for Middle School Math (face-to-face)

It can often feel that as educators, we are having to instantaneously ascertain what information students don’t know and design instructional interventions to address student’s weaknesses. To foster true collaborative learning, students must feel supported and start their journey feeling confident in their mathematical abilities for this type of learning to occur. Participants will engage in identifying and implementing adaptive components within the Carnegie curriculum to meet the needs of all students.

Effective Differentiated Planning (face-to-face)

Are you trying strategies in your classroom and not seeing growth? Are you doing the same thing for every student because you are struggling to differentiate? If the answer is yes, join

us! Using Ellevation effectively can improve student productivity in your classroom. Participants will look at a sample class to identify student needs and EB levels to effectively differentiate and adapt strategies for every student’s level and instructional needs.

Effective Practices to Meet our ELLs' Needs (virtual)

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.

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

Participants will recognize and analyze categories of academic vocabulary found in science texts 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 science; (c) receptive and productive knowledge; and (d) inflection, lemma, derivative, and semantic word families.

Enhancing Learning in ELA with Authentic Communication (virtual)

This presentation highlights the value and power of encouraging and helping students communicate during all learning tasks in secondary ELA classrooms, with an emphasis on supporting their development of language, social skills, and academic agency. Participants will engage in activities and analyze videos that show examples of communication-rich tasks and ways to enhance all of the literacy and oral language activities that we use to help students grow.

Language Building Activities for EBs in the Social Studies Classroom (face-to-face)

This session will provide strategies for developing students' academic and related basic vocabulary in the social studies classroom.

Making Words Meaningful: Internalizing Academic Vocabulary Using EB Strategies (virtual)

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.

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.

Promoting Strategic Interaction among Emergent Bilinguals in CTE Classrooms (virtual)

This workshop is for Career and Technology Education teachers 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.

Building Background Knowledge for Emergent Bilinguals in Secondary Social Studies Classrooms (face-to-face)

This training is for middle school and high school social studies teachers of emergent bilinguals (EBs). Participants will identify and practice techniques that connect content to EBs’ schema. Activating students’ prior knowledge will help teachers determine if EBs have limited or incorrect background knowledge of the matter discussed. Some of the topics included in this training are: (a) identifying culturally relevant instruction, (b) making personal connections via analogies, and (c) creating strategic anticipation guides.

Coaching Teachers in Bilingual & Dual Language Classrooms (virtual)

Engaging dual language teachers in constructive observations and feedback is essential to teacher excellence and student achievement. This session empowers administrators, coaches, and teacher leaders with a proven framework for coaching dual-language and bilingual teachers with fair and effective feedback. Coaches and administrators gain the skills and tools needed to answer the question, “How can I consistently and accurately create a coaching cycle for dual-language and bilingual teachers, especially if the language utilized during instruction is one that I don’t speak?” Participants will receive essential tools for providing effective coaching and high-quality feedback cycles.

Dare to Be Different: Differentiation Strategies and Supports for Middle School Math (face-to-face)

It can often feel that as educators, we are having to instantaneously ascertain what information students don’t know and design instructional interventions to address student’s weaknesses. To foster true collaborative learning, students must feel supported and start their journey feeling confident in their mathematical abilities for this type of learning to occur. Participants will engage in identifying and implementing adaptive components within the Carnegie curriculum to meet the needs of all students.

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.

EBs Academic Success - What Every Teacher Needs to know (virtual)

Summer is a great time to recharge your batteries and to be ready for a new school year. When school starts in August, you will get new students who are coming with their own experiences and knowledge. Students who come looking for teachers who are well prepared to engage them, to challenge them, and to provide them with the supports they need to address their learning needs. Thinking about this, educators need to be ready with new or renovated skills and strategies and new ways to connect with their EBs as well as with other students in their classrooms. So, my invitation is for you to engage as a learner, build on your own competencies and strengths and try out as many of the ideas presented in this professional development as you can. Remember! The more you learn, the better you will be able to serve your students!

Effective Differentiated Planning (face-to-face)

Are you trying strategies in your classroom and not seeing growth? Are you doing the same thing for every student because you are struggling to differentiate? If the answer is yes, join

us! Using Ellevation effectively can improve student productivity in your classroom. Participants will look at a sample class to identify student needs and EB levels to effectively differentiate and adapt strategies for every student’s level and instructional needs.

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 (virtual)

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.

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

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.

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 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.

All Hands on Deck Anchor Charts! (face-to-face)

Stabilize, strengthen, and bridge knowledge with Anchor Charts. Anchor charts build student independence and increase cognitive engagement. Participants will design anchor charts that will strengthen academic performance, support instruction, and internalize and ground student knowledge with confidence. Let’s create and design anchor charts!

Building Background Knowledge for Emergent Bilinguals in Secondary Social Studies Classrooms (face-to-face)

This training is for middle school and high school social studies teachers of emergent bilinguals (EBs). Participants will identify and practice techniques that connect content to EBs’ schema. Activating students’ prior knowledge will help teachers determine if EBs have limited or incorrect background knowledge of the matter discussed. Some of the topics included in this training are: (a) identifying culturally relevant instruction, (b) making personal connections via analogies, and (c) creating strategic anticipation guides.

EBs Academic Success - What Every Teacher Needs to know (virtual)

Summer is a great time to recharge your batteries and to be ready for a new school year. When school starts in August, you will get new students who are coming with their own experiences and knowledge. Students who come looking for teachers who are well prepared to engage them, to challenge them, and to provide them with the supports they need to address their learning needs. Thinking about this, educators need to be ready with new or renovated skills and strategies and new ways to connect with their EBs as well as with other students in their classrooms. So, my invitation is for you to engage as a learner, build on your own competencies and strengths and try out as many of the ideas presented in this professional development as you can. Remember! The more you learn, the better you will be able to serve your students!

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 (virtual)

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.

Promoting Strategic Interaction among Emergent Bilinguals in Secondary Math Classrooms (virtual)

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.