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7 Steps to a Language-Rich Interactive Classroom
What if you could design an amazing learning environment? We already have, and it's all contained in 7steps! 7 Steps to Building a Language-Rich Interactive Classroom provides a seven step process that creates a language-rich interactive classroom environment in which all students can thrive. Topics include differentiating instruction for students at a variety of language proficiencies, keeping all students absolutely engaged, and creating powerful learning supports. This session will be a 6 hour session presented by Carol Salva from Seidlitz Education.
Academic Classroom Environment, Wit & Wisdom, (6th-8th Grade)
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.
Academic Conversations - Supporting Learners Through Discourse
Most students do not intuitively know how to have productive academic discussions. When asked to investigate or analyze a topic or begin a project, some students will hold back and be silent, afraid to share ideas; others may be bossy and take over the work. Without norms, protocols and practice, it is not easy for students to share voices and ideas, consider each other’s ideas thoughtfully, critique their own and each other’s thinking, and create a plan to work effectively together. This session will address the challenges teachers face when trying to bring thoughtful, respectful, and focused conversations into the classroom. We will identify core communications skills needed to help students hold productive academic conversation across content areas.
Academic Vocabulary, Wit & Wisdom (6th-8th Grade)
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.
All Hands on Deck Anchor Charts!
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!
Anchor Charts for All!: How to use Anchor Charts to Deepen Students’ Critical Thinking
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.
B.E.L.I.E.V.E.! in Transformative Emotional Intelligence: Strengthening Teaching from Within (All Levels)
Join Miss Dorito for some real talk with research and see how learning about the 4 Pillars and 13 Major Skills of TEI can create a happier, less stressful, more compassionate, boundary setting you in and out of the classroom. Participants leave rejuvenated, seen, heard and ready to explore emotional intelligence for teachers. That is if you B.E.L.I.E.V.E.!
B.E.L.I.E.V.E.! in Transformative Emotional Intelligence: Strengthening Teaching from Within Part Deux (All Levels)
Join Miss Dorito for Part 2 of this powerful session on Transformative Emotional Intelligence as we continue to explore visions, values, non-negotiables, and boundaries through understanding, navigating, and balancing our emotional and content intellect! That is if you B.E.L.I.E.V.E.!
B.E.L.I.E.V.E.! in The Writing Recipe: Ingredients for Empowerment on Paper (All Levels)
This highly engaging, fun, and informative session demonstrates the successful writing strategy by Miss Dorito called The Writing Recipe. Using old school meets new school techniques, TPR, and pure FUN come see The Writing Recipe in action and how it empowers ALL students to WANT to write while giving teachers the confidence to teach writing with ease! That is if you B.E.L.I.E.V.E.!
B.E.L.I.E.V.E.! in Scaffolding: Breaking Down Content Area Lessons to Build Up Academic Literacy (All Levels)
Join Miss Dorito for this highly informative play-by-play on scaffolding challenging science and social studies lessons so ALL students may feel confident and comfortable to learn. Watch how easy it is to do once you see it happening in real time. Participants leave empowered, ready to differentiate their content for ALL students. Learn to scaffold once and you will see its power and your awesomeness for increased student engagement and comprehension. That is if you B.E.L.I.E.V.E.!Building Academic Vocabulary Through Structured Conversations:Challenging EBs in Secondary Classrooms to Engage in
Building Academic Vocabulary Through Structured Conversations:Challenging EBs in Secondary Classrooms to Engage in Meaningful Interactions
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 Knowledge for Emergent Bilinguals in Secondary Social Studies Classrooms
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.
Building Background and Activating Prior Knowledge through Authenticity and Realia
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.
Coaching Teachers in Bilingual & Dual Language Classrooms
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.
Content-Based Language Instruction
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.
Cultivating a Comfortable Environment for Diverse Learners - Diversity Inside-out
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.
Dare to Be Different: Differentiation Strategies and Supports for Middle School Math
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.
Decide and Defend: Structured Conversations in the Secondary Math Classroom
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.
Differentiation Made Easy
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.
Diving into Wit & Wisdom, Module 0 (6th-8th Grade)
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.
EBs Academic Success - What Every Teacher Needs to know
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
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
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
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.
Enhancing Learning in ELA with Authentic Communication
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.
Enhancing Learning in Math with Authentic Communication
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.
Engaging Students Using Nearpod
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 Science Classrooms
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.
English Vocabulary Instruction for Emergent Bilinguals in Secondary Social Studies Classrooms
Participants will recognize and analyze categories of academic vocabulary found in social studies 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 social studies; (c) receptive and productive knowledge; and (d) inflection, lemma, derivative, and semantic word families.
English Vocabulary Instruction for Emergent Bilinguals in Secondary Math Classrooms
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?
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.
Growing Language and Literacy - Supporting our EB Students
This session will address the diverse language and literacy proficiencies that exist in our classrooms. We will look at levels of language acquisition, and practical strategies that can be applied across grade levels and content areas to support EB students’ academic language and literacy development. With an emphasis on culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogy, peer interaction, and scaffolding, This session will offer instructional practices organized into strands at each level of language acquisition.
Journaling to the MAX
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
This session will provide strategies for developing students' academic and related basic vocabulary in the social studies classroom.
Literacy Instruction for Dually-Identified Students: Instruction and Strategies to Improve Literacy Outcomes for ALL Students
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.
Making Words Meaningful: Internalizing Academic Vocabulary Using ELL Strategies
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
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.
Move Our EBs, Please: Aligning WRITING instructional practices and TELPAS Item Types
The robust curriculum for the "Move Our EBs, Please: Aligning WRITING 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 writing 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
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
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.
Promoting Strategic Interaction among Emergent Bilinguals in Secondary Math Classrooms
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
In this session Trevor Bryan, author of The Art of Comprehension 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.
Reading in Social Studies Classes: Building Word and World Knowledge to Improve Reading among Emergent Bilinguals and Their Peers
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.
Responsive Teaching - Positive Impacts on Student Achievement
Students are often described through a deficit lens; we focus on what they cannot do, rather than by what they can do. In this session we will discuss how teacher expectations affect student achievement, and will explore best practice methods to support our students and build positive interactions in our classrooms. Responsive teaching focuses on building an even stronger school community that is inclusive of EB students. When we develop a climate in which all students’ backgrounds, experiences, and cultures are honored our EB students will thrive.
Scaffolding English Reading Comprehension for Emergent Bilinguals in Secondary Science Classrooms
In this training, secondary science teachers will learn how to embed reading and language strategies in their lessons based on the linguistic difficulty of the content and the English proficiency level of their EBs.
Simple and Effective Strategies that Work in ALL Classrooms!
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 that Work in the Math Classroom!
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.
Strategies to Promote Academic Content and English Language Development for EBs in Any Secondary Classroom
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
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
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.
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