Learning Session 3

Kathy Davis 

Ellevation

As the number of multilingual learners continues to grow, teachers must develop the capacity to teach language through content so students can build language proficiency and gain the necessary academic knowledge. But trying to differentiate activities to meet the varying cultural, linguistic, and academic needs of students can be overwhelming. Join us to learn a few classroom activities that can be easily incorporated into existing lessons and make language and content accessible to every learner. 

Claudia Perez

and

 Rosario Salcedo-Pitcher

It cannot be in the mind if it has not been in the body first! The more we know, the better we are able to service our students. Let's use evidence-based practices that will ensure we support our students with special needs who are also Emergent Bilinguals.

Adriana Álvarez, PhD

This session presents a biliterate writing strategy and instructional tool called Diario Duo, which engages young bilingual learners in a reflective process that fosters metalinguistic awareness and cross-language connections through a monthly bilingual journal. This strategy provides an opportunity for students to write about their lives, while capturing a current sample of their writing progress in each language. The Diario Duo showcases students’ writing progress across time and languages providing the opportunity to observe and analyze students' biliteracy development. This presentation will be bilingual.

Terri Ballesteros M.Ed.

and

Jon Mark Howeth, Ed. M

Ellevation

Join Terri Ballesteros, M.Ed (former El Paso ISD educator), and Jon Mark Howeth, Ed.M. (Harvard Graduate School of Education) for an interactive session on supporting Texas Emergent Bilinguals of all PLDs (including Newcomers and LTELs) with dynamic differentiation across all four Depth of Knowledge levels. Attendees will be given a bag of high-utility resources to keep, including a suite of Reading and Math Discourse Cards (in English and Spanish). Participants will actively use their new resources in a series of collaborative mini-challenges to create an Asset Environment that elevates an EB's reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. In a culminating activity, attendees apply a technique of their own invention, and showcase their creativity to inspire other participants.  

Erika Alaniz

JoAnn Brant

Margarita Marrero

Ana Rosas

Join us to learn about how to effectively scaffold math instruction using language routines to improve students' understanding.